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Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing

Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the integration of cyber, physical, and social systems, with an emphasis on decision making, urban computing, autodyne sensors, machine learning, data mining, transportation systems, information management, parallel computing, and infrastructure development.

  • Cyber-Physical-Social Systems
  • Decision Making
  • Urban Computing
  • Autodyne Sensors
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Transportation System
  • Information Management
  • Parallel Computing
  • Infrastructure Development
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing

Which countries lead Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1k and 262 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 262 works
  3. 3 China 260 works
  4. 4 United States 170 works
  5. 5 India 95 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 71 works
  7. 7 Germany 41 works
  8. 8 Poland 37 works
  9. 9 Kazakhstan 34 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 33 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: 49.9%Ukraine: 13.1%China: 13.0%United States: 8.5%6 others listed: 15.5%50%largest
Russia1,001 · 49.9%Ukraine262 · 13.1%China260 · 13.0%United States170 · 8.5%6 others listed311 · 15.5%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing research, followed by Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics and Petersburg State Transport University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 111 works
  2. 2 Moscow Technical University of Communication and InformaticsRussia 39 works
  3. 3 Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 36 works
  4. 4 Russian University of TransportRussia 32 works
  5. 5 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 24 works
  6. 6 Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 22 works
  7. 7 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 22 works
  8. 8 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 20 works
  9. 9 Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 20 works
  10. 10 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing include A. V. Filippenko, Francisco Herrera and Claude E. Shannon.

  1. 1 A. V. Filippenko United States 150k citations
  2. 2 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k citations
  3. 3 Claude E. Shannon United States 138k 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 Research in Systems and Signal Processing?

The most cited paper in Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing is "Variable structure systems with sliding modes" (Vadim I. Utkin, 1977), with 5,383 citations. Next come "Reinforcement Learning" (3,009) and "Optimum Locations of Switching Centers and the Absolute Centers and Medians of a Graph" (2,417).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Variable structure systems with sliding modes Vadim I. Utkin · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Apr 1977 5,383
2 Reinforcement Learning Andrew G. Barto · IFAC Proceedings Volumes Conference paper Oct 1998 3,009
3 Optimum Locations of Switching Centers and the Absolute Centers and Medians of a Graph S. L. Hakimi · Operations Research Jun 1964 2,417
4 Possibility theory: An approach to computerized processing of uncertainty Arie Tzvieli · Journal of the American Society for Information Science Mar 1990 2,125
5 Decision making — the Analytic Hierarchy and Network Processes (AHP/ANP) Thomas L. Saaty · Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering Mar 2004 1,817
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) 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, Voronezh and Samara.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 396 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 152 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 98 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 66 works
  5. 5 TashkentUzbekistan 54 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 48 works
  7. 7 Rostov-on-DonRussia 40 works
  8. 8 VoronezhRussia 29 works
  9. 9 SamaraRussia 27 works
  10. 10 LvivUkraine 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rostov-on-DonRU · 39.5 works35×
  2. VoronezhRU · 29.4 works33×
  3. SamaraRU · 27.0 works26×
  4. Saint PetersburgRU · 151.5 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing?

Among universities, judged by research, Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics, Tashkent State Transport University and Petersburg State Transport 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%20%40%60%mean 18.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Moscow Technical Uni…Tashkent State Trans…Petersburg State Tra…Russian University o…
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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
1Moscow Technical University of Communication and InformaticsRussia 85.855.4%424.4×39 +3.2%
2Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 60.327.4%170.0×22 +96.7%
3Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 52.65.3%254.7×36 +383.1%
4Russian University of TransportRussia 43.62.4%232.6×32 -3.0%
5Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 40.740.7%6.5×8 +112.5%
6Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 39.816.6%61.4×24 -28.3%
7National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 39.73.5%44.3×22 +7.5%
8Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 39.12.7%45.1×20 -40.3%
9Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 39.012.3%36.2×20 -11.5%
10Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 36.114.7%61.5×20 -29.8%

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 Research in Systems and Signal Processing, country by country

Is Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing.

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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 Research in Systems and Signal Processing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Research in Systems and Signal Processing 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 Research in Systems and Signal Processing10.4% 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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