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Antenna Design and Analysis

Antenna Design and Analysis is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 77k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advancements in antenna design and applications, including topics such as microstrip antennas, MIMO systems, wireless communications, fractal antennas, wideband antennas, reconfigurable antennas, metamaterial-based antennas, ultrawideband technology, and techniques for reducing mutual coupling between antenna elements.

  • Antenna
  • Microstrip
  • MIMO
  • Wireless Communications
  • Fractal
  • Wideband
  • Reconfigurable
  • Metamaterial
  • Ultrawideband
  • Mutual Coupling
Research works
77k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Antenna Design and Analysis

Which countries lead Antenna Design and Analysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (6.9k and 3.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 6.9k works
  2. 2 India 3.7k works
  3. 3 United States 1.2k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 485 works
  5. 5 South Korea 461 works
  6. 6 Japan 450 works
  7. 7 Canada 351 works
  8. 8 Italy 338 works
  9. 9 ?? 331 works
  10. 10 France 330 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: 47.4%India: 25.3%United States: 8.3%United Kingdom: 3.3%6 others listed: 15.6%47%largest
China6,866 · 47.4%India3,670 · 25.3%United States1,200 · 8.3%United Kingdom485 · 3.3%6 others listed2,262 · 15.6%

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

Which institutions lead Antenna Design and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Antenna Design and Analysis research, followed by Xidian University and Southeast University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 395 works
  2. 2 Xidian UniversityChina 373 works
  3. 3 Southeast UniversityChina 350 works
  4. 4 South China University of TechnologyChina 208 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 164 works
  6. 6 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 144 works
  7. 7 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 137 works
  8. 8 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 125 works
  9. 9 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 122 works
  10. 10 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 121 works

Who are the leading researchers in Antenna Design and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Antenna Design and Analysis include Kostya S. Novoselov, Yury G. Gogotsi and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Dirk Schadendorf Germany 222k citations
  7. 7 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  8. 8 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  9. 9 Andreas von Deimling Germany 170k 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 Antenna Design and Analysis?

The most cited paper in Antenna Design and Analysis is "Antenna theory, analysis, and design" (William F. Croswell, 1982), with 8,649 citations. Next come "Controlling Electromagnetic Fields" (8,609) and "Perfect Metamaterial Absorber" (7,671).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Antenna theory, analysis, and design William F. Croswell · IRE Transactions on Telemetry and Remote Control 1982 8,649
2 Controlling Electromagnetic Fields John Brian Pendry, David Schurig, David R. Smith · Science 25 May 2006 8,609
3 Perfect Metamaterial Absorber Nathan I. Landy, Soji Sajuyigbe, Jack J. Mock et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 21 May 2008 7,671
4 Metamaterial Electromagnetic Cloak at Microwave Frequencies David Schurig, Jack J. Mock, B.J. Justice et al. · Science 19 Oct 2006 7,599
5 Massive MIMO for next generation wireless systems Erik G. Larsson, Ove Edfors, Fredrik Tufvesson et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine Open access Feb 2014 7,018
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Where is Antenna Design and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Antenna Design and Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanjing, Palakkad and Guntur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1k works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 848 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 841 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 552 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 434 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 349 works
  7. 7 ChennaiIndia 332 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 236 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 218 works
  10. 10 HefeiChina 186 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nanjing96.6 works48×
  2. PalakkadIN · 30.0 works27×
  3. Guntur23.1 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Antenna Design and Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Antenna Design and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Southeast University, City University of Hong Kong and South China University of Technology 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 22.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Southeast UniversitySouth China Universi…Xidian 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.

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
1Southeast UniversityChina 65.517.9%14.3×350 +47.7%
2City University of Hong KongChina 62.021.0%8.8×83 +18.2%
3South China University of TechnologyChina 59.215.7%11.6×208 +45.2%
4Xidian UniversityChina 58.612.5%31.1×373 +11.8%
5Wuhan University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.648.0%2.0×11 +59.0%
6University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 54.514.1%21.3×395 -10.6%
7Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 53.736.7%2.7×11 +698.4%
8Jouf UniversitySaudi Arabia 53.433.7%6.0×13 +75.6%
9Shenzhen UniversityChina 52.713.4%9.1×111 +31.5%
10University of MacauChina 52.312.5%10.3×54 +10.7%

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 Antenna Design and Analysis, country by country

Is Antenna Design and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Antenna Design and Analysis.

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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 Antenna Design and Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.092% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Antenna Design and Analysis 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%Antenna Design and Analysis9.6% 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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