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Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation

Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on modern electrostatic gas cleaning technologies and methods, including electrostatic precipitators, filtration technologies, ionic wind generation, particle filtration using nanofiber media, wet electrostatic precipitators, high-voltage supplies for industrial electrostatic precipitators, aerosol filtration, and the application of electrohydrodynamics in gas cleaning processes.

  • Electrostatic Precipitators
  • Filtration Technologies
  • Ionic Wind
  • Particle Filtration
  • Corona Discharge
  • Nanofiber Media
  • Wet Electrostatic Precipitator
  • High-Voltage Supplies
  • Aerosol Filtration
  • Electrohydrodynamics
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation

Which countries lead Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 436 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 United States 436 works
  3. 3 India 218 works
  4. 4 Germany 205 works
  5. 5 Russia 163 works
  6. 6 Japan 157 works
  7. 7 France 144 works
  8. 8 South Korea 143 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 113 works
  10. 10 Iran 88 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: 53.7%United States: 12.1%India: 6.1%Germany: 5.7%6 others listed: 22.5%54%largest
China1,931 · 53.7%United States436 · 12.1%India218 · 6.1%Germany205 · 5.7%6 others listed808 · 22.5%

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

Which institutions lead Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Xi'an Jiaotong University publishes the most Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 69 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 52 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 50 works
  4. 4 Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 49 works
  5. 5 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 46 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 44 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 44 works
  8. 8 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 38 works
  9. 9 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 33 works
  10. 10 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation include Zhong Lin Wang, Yi Ping Cui and Xiaogang Wang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  3. 3 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  4. 4 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  7. 7 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  8. 8 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  9. 9 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  10. 10 Qiang Zhang China 184k 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 Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation?

The most cited paper in Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation is "Lattice Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components" (Xiaowen Shan, Hudong Chen, 1993), with 3,635 citations. Next come "Discrete lattice effects on the forcing term in the lattice Boltzmann method" (2,405) and "Theory of the lattice Boltzmann method: Dispersion, dissipation, isotropy, Galilean invariance, and stability" (2,277).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Lattice Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components Xiaowen Shan, Hudong Chen · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics Open access Mar 1993 3,635
2 Discrete lattice effects on the forcing term in the lattice Boltzmann method Zhaoli Guo, Chuguang Zheng, Baochang Shi · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 10 Apr 2002 2,405
3 Theory of the lattice Boltzmann method: Dispersion, dissipation, isotropy, Galilean invariance, and stability Pierre Lallemand, Li‐Shi Luo · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics Open access Jun 2000 2,277
4 The lattice Boltzmann equation: theory and applications Roberto Benzi, Sauro Succi, Massimo Vergassola · Physics Reports Dec 1992 2,084
5 Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Complex Flows Cyrus K. Aidun, Jonathan R. Clausen · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics Review 23 Sep 2009 1,991
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Where is Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation research done?

The largest centres of Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 331 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 143 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 136 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 96 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 95 works
  6. 6 QingdaoChina 81 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 65 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 60 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 60 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 58 works
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Where is the best place to study Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation?

Among universities, judged by research, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong 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 21.49%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shandong University …China University of …Donghua UniversityXi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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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
1Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 85.943.4%25.2×49 +23.3%
2China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 64.125.4%10.6×33 +30.0%
3Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 55.49.7%9.8×69 -1.4%
4Donghua UniversityChina 54.923.5%15.2×22 +10.8%
5Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina 53.629.0%16.0×15 +477.9%
6Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 51.122.5%10.8×21 +26.3%
7Jiangsu UniversityChina 51.017.3%8.8×28 +37.2%
8China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 45.511.3%14.4×23 +19.2%
9Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 45.210.4%5.3×38 -6.3%
10Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 44.922.4%8.2×14 +70.6%

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 Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation, country by country

Is Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation.

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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 Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation 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.

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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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