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Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations

Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations is a research topic within Nuclear Energy and Engineering. Science Explorer counts 5.3k research works in it since 1950. 13.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and optimization of nuclear betavoltaic batteries, utilizing semiconductor diodes and various radioisotopes for high-efficiency energy conversion. The research includes demonstration of radiation-resistant materials, exploration of different semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride, and the design of microbatteries for practical applications.

  • Nuclear Batteries
  • Betavoltaic
  • Radiation Resistance
  • Semiconductor Diodes
  • Energy Conversion
  • Radioisotopes
  • High Efficiency
  • Silicon Carbide
  • Gallium Nitride
  • Microbattery
Research works
5.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
738
per year above
Top-10% rate
13.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+148%
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Which countries lead Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (570 and 174 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 570 works
  2. 2 China 174 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 90 works
  4. 4 United States 87 works
  5. 5 India 58 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 35 works
  7. 7 South Korea 29 works
  8. 8 Kazakhstan 28 works
  9. 9 Poland 24 works
  10. 10 Belarus 20 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.

Russia: 51.1%China: 15.6%Ukraine: 8.1%United States: 7.8%6 others listed: 17.5%51%largest
Russia570 · 51.1%China174 · 15.6%Ukraine90 · 8.1%United States87 · 7.8%6 others listed195 · 17.5%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering publishes the most Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations research, followed by Petersburg State Transport University and Don State Technical University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 83 works
  2. 2 Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 35 works
  3. 3 Don State Technical UniversityRussia 23 works
  4. 4 Siberian Transport UniversityRussia 16 works
  5. 5 Belgorod State Technological UniversityRussia 16 works
  6. 6 Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil EngineeringRussia 13 works
  7. 7 Russian University of TransportRussia 13 works
  8. 8 Samara State Technical UniversityRussia 12 works
  9. 9 Gersevanov Research Institute of Bases and Underground StructuresRussia 11 works
  10. 10 Research Design and Technological Institute of Concrete and Reinforced ConcreteRussia 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations include D.D.L. Chung.

  1. 1 D.D.L. Chung United States 2.1k citations

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

Where is Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations research in 2022–2025 are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Rostov-on-Don (Russia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rostov-on-Don and Saint Petersburg.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 206 works
  2. 2 Saint Petersburg Russia 75 works
  3. 3 Rostov-on-Don Russia 32 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 28 works
  5. 5 Kyiv Ukraine 27 works
  6. 6 Novosibirsk Russia 26 works
  7. 7 Tashkent Uzbekistan 21 works
  8. 8 Samara Russia 16 works
  9. 9 Belgorod Russia 16 works
  10. 10 Dnipro Ukraine 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rostov-on-DonRU · 32.4 works47×
  2. Saint PetersburgRU · 75.1 works20×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations?

Among universities, judged by research, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Samara State Technical University and Don State Technical University 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%10%20%mean 5.24%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Moscow State University of Civil Engineering: 83, 6.0%Samara State Technical University: 12, 14.3%Don State Technical University: 23, 8.4%Petersburg State Transport University: 35, 6.4%Belgorod State Technological University: 16, 2.5%Tashkent State Transport University: 9, 7.8%Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering: 13, 2.4%Russian University of Transport: 13, 0.4%Ural Federal University: 8, 2.8%Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies: 8, 1.4%Samara State Technic…Don State Technical …Petersburg State Tra…Moscow State Univers…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 74.96.0%434.8×83 +952.7%
2 Samara State Technical UniversityRussia 74.914.3%113.7×12 +1244.2%
3 Don State Technical UniversityRussia 59.58.4%139.6×23 —
4 Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 58.66.4%380.4×35 —
5 Belgorod State Technological UniversityRussia 52.92.5%239.9×16 +536.9%
6 Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 52.57.8%101.0×9 —
7 Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil EngineeringRussia 51.12.4%257.5×13 +676.3%
8 Russian University of TransportRussia 47.70.4%147.1×13 +820.4%
9 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 47.12.8%20.6×8 —
10 Ukrainian State University of Science and TechnologiesUkraine 43.91.4%151.5×8 —

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 148% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations.

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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.

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.