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Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization

Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 58k research works in it since 1951. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the next generation of wireless networks, particularly 5G technology. It covers topics such as Massive MIMO, interference alignment, device-to-device communication, green cellular networks, spectral and energy efficiency, multiuser MIMO, and heterogeneous networks.

  • Massive MIMO
  • Cellular Networks
  • Interference Alignment
  • Device-to-Device Communication
  • Green Cellular Networks
  • Spectral Efficiency
  • Multiuser MIMO
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Heterogeneous Networks
  • Coordinated Multipoint
Research works
58k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
5.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization

Which countries lead Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.1k and 1.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 India 1.7k works
  3. 3 United States 918 works
  4. 4 South Korea 478 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 400 works
  6. 6 Japan 348 works
  7. 7 Germany 322 works
  8. 8 Canada 309 works
  9. 9 France 227 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 186 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: 39.1%India: 20.9%United States: 11.5%South Korea: 6.0%6 others listed: 22.5%39%largest
China3,113 · 39.1%India1,670 · 20.9%United States918 · 11.5%South Korea478 · 6.0%6 others listed1,792 · 22.5%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Southeast University publishes the most Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization research, followed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Southeast UniversityChina 225 works
  2. 2 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 176 works
  3. 3 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 111 works
  4. 4 Xidian UniversityChina 82 works
  5. 5 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 82 works
  6. 6 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 72 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 66 works
  8. 8 University of OuluFinland 59 works
  9. 9 Purple Mountain LaboratoriesChina 59 works
  10. 10 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 59 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization include Wei Huang, Bach Xuan Tran and Xiaogang Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 263k citations
  3. 3 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  6. 6 James Jonathan Gross United States 163k citations
  7. 7 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  8. 8 Alan Conrad Bovik United States 150k 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 MIMO Systems Optimization?

The most cited paper in Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization is "Cognitive radio: brain-empowered wireless communications" (S. Haykin, 2005), with 12,031 citations. Next come "Capacity of Multi‐antenna Gaussian Channels" (11,395) and "On Limits of Wireless Communications in a Fading Environment when Using Multiple Antennas" (10,143).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cognitive radio: brain-empowered wireless communications S. Haykin · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Feb 2005 12,031
2 Capacity of Multi‐antenna Gaussian Channels Emre Telatar · European Transactions on Telecommunications Open access Nov 1999 11,395
3 On Limits of Wireless Communications in a Fading Environment when Using Multiple Antennas G.J. Foschini, Michael J. Gans · Wireless Personal Communications Mar 1998 10,143
4 Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat Suoqin Jin, Christian Fernando Guerrero‐Juarez, Lihua Zhang et al. · Nature Communications Open access 17 Feb 2021 8,891
5 What Will 5G Be? Jeffrey G. Andrews, Stefano Buzzi, Wan Choi et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Open access Jun 2014 8,314
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization research done?

The largest centres of Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kista, Fujimino and Oulu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 699 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 473 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 233 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 207 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 183 works
  6. 6 ShenzhenChina 166 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 166 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 165 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 164 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 113 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KistaSE · 42.5 works93×
  2. FujiminoJP · 22.7 works89×
  3. OuluFI · 59.7 works18×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization?

Among universities, judged by research, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Southeast University and Nanyang Technological University score highest, combining citation 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 26.06%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shenzhen Research In…Nanyang Technologica…Chinese University o…Southeast University
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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.

Citation 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
1Shenzhen Research Institute of Big DataChina 69.533.3%59.8×11 +116.9%
2Southeast UniversityChina 68.714.4%15.5×225 +27.4%
3Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 68.230.9%5.1×40 +76.2%
4Chinese University of Hong Kong, ShenzhenChina 64.024.3%13.1×23 +110.7%
5Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 61.229.8%5.8×24 +0.7%
6Northeastern UniversityUnited States 61.027.0%6.9×21 +40.4%
7Khalifa University of Science and TechnologyUnited Arab Emirates 59.325.8%7.0×16 +73.3%
8University of Hong KongChina 58.624.7%2.4×22 +38.8%
9KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 58.317.5%11.6×43 +12.6%
10Singapore University of Technology and DesignSingapore 57.132.9%14.8×13 -19.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 MIMO Systems Optimization, country by country

Is Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 MIMO Systems Optimization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.050% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization0.047% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization 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 MIMO Systems Optimization9.8% 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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