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Advanced Power Generation Technologies

Advanced Power Generation Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to power generation, energy systems, and the impact of various technologies on climate change. It includes research on thermal conductivity, steam generation, hydrogen-oxygen generators, nuclear power plants, energy efficiency, and the integration of renewable energy. The papers also discuss the challenges and prospects for the electric power industry, the use of gas turbines, and advancements in combustion technology.

  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Steam Generation
  • Hydrogen-Oxygen Generators
  • Nuclear Power Plants
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Climate Change
  • Electric Power Industry
  • Gas Turbines
  • Renewable Energy
  • Combustion Technology
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Power Generation Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Power Generation Technologies research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (856 and 282 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 856 works
  2. 2 China 282 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 205 works
  4. 4 United States 168 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 49 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 48 works
  7. 7 Poland 39 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 38 works
  9. 9 India 37 works
  10. 10 Japan 36 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: 48.7%China: 16.0%Ukraine: 11.7%United States: 9.5%6 others listed: 14.1%49%largest
Russia856 · 48.7%China282 · 16.0%Ukraine205 · 11.7%United States168 · 9.5%6 others listed247 · 14.1%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Power Generation Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Power Generation Technologies research, followed by Moscow Power Engineering Institute and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 113 works
  2. 2 Moscow Power Engineering InstituteRussia 71 works
  3. 3 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 44 works
  4. 4 Kazan State Power Engineering UniversityRussia 24 works
  5. 5 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 23 works
  6. 6 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 22 works
  7. 7 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 20 works
  8. 8 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 18 works
  10. 10 Samara National Research UniversityRussia 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Power Generation Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Power Generation Technologies include E. Rossi.

  1. 1 E. Rossi France 221k 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 Power Generation Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Power Generation Technologies is "Solar-Energy Thermal Processes" (John A. Duffie, William A. Beckman, Roland Winston et al., 1976), with 1,105 citations. Next come "Heat Transfer in the Cylinders of Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines" (953) and "Simplified Mathematical Representations of Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines" (635).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Solar-Energy Thermal Processes John A. Duffie, William A. Beckman, Roland Winston et al. · Physics Today Apr 1976 1,105
2 Heat Transfer in the Cylinders of Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Group, W. J. D. Annand · Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Jun 1963 953
3 Simplified Mathematical Representations of Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines William I. Rowen · Journal of Engineering for Power Oct 1983 635
4 Wind energy and the hydrogen economy—review of the technology S. A. Sherif, Frano Barbir, T.N. Veziroglu · Solar Energy 18 Feb 2005 450
5 Hydrogen: the wonder fuel T VEZIROLU, Frano Barbir · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Open access Jun 1992 376
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Power Generation Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Power Generation Technologies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Samara, Irkutsk and Kazan’.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 288 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 79 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 72 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 71 works
  5. 5 Kazan’Russia 46 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 42 works
  7. 7 YekaterinburgRussia 33 works
  8. 8 TashkentUzbekistan 30 works
  9. 9 SamaraRussia 30 works
  10. 10 NovosibirskRussia 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SamaraRU · 29.8 works33×
  2. IrkutskRU · 24.4 works32×
  3. Kazan’RU · 46.4 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Power Generation Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Power Generation Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, North China Electric Power University, Moscow Power Engineering Institute and Tsinghua 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%30%mean 14.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →North China Electric…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Tsinghua UniversityMoscow Power Enginee…
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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
1North China Electric Power UniversityChina 66.027.2%9.2×12 +128.6%
2Moscow Power Engineering InstituteRussia 62.510.1%249.3×70 -31.1%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 59.422.1%2.8×12 +714.2%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 58.724.6%3.6×12 -
5Admiral Makarov National University of ShipbuildingUkraine 56.611.9%232.7×13 -38.2%
6Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan 55.27.3%98.2×14 +147.9%
7Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 54.614.5%57.6×23 -46.2%
8Kazan State Power Engineering UniversityRussia 54.112.7%300.0×24 -56.4%
9Ural Federal UniversityRussia 51.47.8%40.2×22 -15.2%
10National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 47.07.0%45.0×20 -14.2%

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 Power Generation Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Power Generation Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Power Generation Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0098% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Power Generation Technologies 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 Power Generation Technologies10.7% 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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