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Advanced DC-DC Converters

Advanced DC-DC Converters is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 52k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advancements in power electronics and conversion systems, focusing on topics such as DC-DC converters, high-frequency power conversion, integration of renewable energy sources, solid-state transformers, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, isolated bidirectional converters, switched-capacitor circuits, voltage boosting techniques, and digital control methods.

  • Power Electronics
  • DC-DC Converters
  • High-Frequency Power Conversion
  • Renewable Energy Integration
  • Solid-State Transformers
  • Electric Vehicle Charging
  • Isolated Bidirectional Converters
  • Switched-Capacitor Circuits
  • Voltage Boosting Techniques
  • Digital Control
Research works
52k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced DC-DC Converters

Which countries lead Advanced DC-DC Converters research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (4k and 2.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4k works
  2. 2 India 2.6k works
  3. 3 United States 983 works
  4. 4 South Korea 407 works
  5. 5 Iran 383 works
  6. 6 Japan 321 works
  7. 7 Brazil 246 works
  8. 8 Italy 244 works
  9. 9 Germany 238 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 233 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 41.4%India: 27.2%United States: 10.1%South Korea: 4.2%6 others listed: 17.1%41%largest
China4,037 · 41.4%India2,650 · 27.2%United States983 · 10.1%South Korea407 · 4.2%6 others listed1,664 · 17.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced DC-DC Converters research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harbin Institute of Technology publishes the most Advanced DC-DC Converters research, followed by Xi'an Jiaotong University and Zhejiang University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 156 works
  2. 2 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 138 works
  3. 3 Zhejiang UniversityChina 138 works
  4. 4 Indian Institute of Technology DelhiIndia 112 works
  5. 5 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 105 works
  6. 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 101 works
  7. 7 Southeast UniversityChina 96 works
  8. 8 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 94 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 92 works
  10. 10 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 83 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced DC-DC Converters?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced DC-DC Converters include Wei Huang, Takashi Taniguchi and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  5. 5 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  6. 6 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced DC-DC Converters?

The most cited paper in Advanced DC-DC Converters is "Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls, and applications" (José Rodríguez, Jih‐Sheng Lai, Fang Zheng Peng, 2002), with 6,729 citations. Next come "Power-Electronic Systems for the Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources: A Survey" (4,036) and "Recent Advances and Industrial Applications of Multilevel Converters" (3,879).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls, and applications José Rodríguez, Jih‐Sheng Lai, Fang Zheng Peng · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Open access Aug 2002 6,729
2 Power-Electronic Systems for the Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources: A Survey Juan Manuel Carrasco, Leopoldo G. Franquelo, Jan T. Białasiewicz et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Open access Jun 2006 4,036
3 Recent Advances and Industrial Applications of Multilevel Converters Samir Kouro, Mariusz Malinowski, K. Gopakumar et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Open access 14 Jun 2010 3,879
4 Instantaneous Reactive Power Compensators Comprising Switching Devices without Energy Storage Components Hirofumi Akagi, Yoshihira Kanazawa, Akira Nabae · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications May 1984 3,379
5 Z-source inverter Fang Zheng Peng · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Mar 2003 3,231
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced DC-DC Converters research done?

The largest centres of Advanced DC-DC Converters research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Chennai (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tādepallegūdem, Xi'an and Nagaoka.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 543 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 306 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 273 works
  4. 4 ChennaiIndia 259 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 254 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 232 works
  7. 7 HarbinChina 202 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 201 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 191 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 190 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TādepallegūdemIN · 22.7 works28×
  2. Xi'an21.5 works25×
  3. NagaokaJP · 20.0 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced DC-DC Converters than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced DC-DC Converters?

Among universities, judged by research, Near East University, Virginia Tech and Khalifa University of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Near East UniversityKhalifa University o…Virginia TechCity University of H…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Near East UniversityCyprus 69.931.1%9.3×14 +11.7%
2Virginia TechUnited States 69.627.1%10.9×70 -7.7%
3Khalifa University of Science and TechnologyUnited Arab Emirates 67.728.6%7.9×21 +34.0%
4City University of Hong KongChina 65.523.4%4.6×30 +87.1%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 63.613.4%4.5×138 +26.7%
6Aalborg UniversityDenmark 63.617.3%12.8×83 -43.8%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 63.412.0%8.4×156 +12.3%
8University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 63.225.7%2.4×26 +16.6%
9Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 63.030.2%3.0×10 +96.9%
10Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 62.915.4%10.8×94 +48.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced DC-DC Converters, country by country

Is Advanced DC-DC Converters research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced DC-DC Converters.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced DC-DC Converters as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.059% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced DC-DC Converters over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced DC-DC Converters9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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