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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. 38.9% 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%
30k
per year above
Top-10% rate
38.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+28%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Antenna Design and Analysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (6.3k and 3.4k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 6.3k works
  2. 2 India 3.4k works
  3. 3 United States 1.1k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 460 works
  5. 5 South Korea 438 works
  6. 6 Japan 438 works
  7. 7 Canada 339 works
  8. 8 Italy 328 works
  9. 9 France 322 works
  10. 10 ?? 318 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: 46.8%India: 25.2%United States: 8.4%United Kingdom: 3.4%6 others listed: 16.1%47%largest
China6,339 · 46.8%India3,409 · 25.2%United States1,143 · 8.4%United Kingdom460 · 3.4%6 others listed2,183 · 16.1%

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

Which institutions lead Antenna Design and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Antenna Design and Analysis research, followed by Xidian University and Southeast University.

Who are the leading researchers in Antenna Design and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Antenna Design and Analysis include H. Vincent Poor, Ian F. Akyildiz and Robert W. Heath.

  1. 1 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
  2. 2 Ian F. Akyildiz United States 8.2k citations
  3. 3 Robert W. Heath United States 7.1k citations
  4. 4 David R. Smith United States 6.3k citations
  5. 5 Rui Zhang Singapore 6k citations
  6. 6 Mohamed‐Slim Alouini Saudi Arabia 5.9k citations
  7. 7 Xuemin Shen Canada 5.1k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Antenna Design and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Antenna Design and Analysis research in 2022–2025 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 and Palakkad.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 978 works
  2. 2 Nanjing China 813 works
  3. 3 Xi'an China 806 works
  4. 4 Chengdu China 525 works
  5. 5 Guangzhou China 410 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 335 works
  7. 7 Chennai India 305 works
  8. 8 Shenzhen China 227 works
  9. 9 Seoul South Korea 206 works
  10. 10 Hefei China 175 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nanjing92.9 works46×
  2. PalakkadIN · 29.5 works29×
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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, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, University of Macau and Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation 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%25%50%mean 39.56%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology: 33, 58.2%University of Macau: 50, 37.7%Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation: 50, 41.6%University of Engineering and Technology Taxila: 11, 51.6%Reykjavík University: 18, 53.3%Southeast University: 244, 28.8%University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: 377, 32.8%South China University of Technology: 196, 34.8%University of Technology Sydney: 67, 31.6%Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 114, 25.2%Chittagong Universit…University of Engine…Koneru Lakshmaiah Ed…University of Macau
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Chittagong University of Engineering & TechnologyBangladesh 74.858.2%23.6×33 +345.1%
2 University of MacauMacau 70.837.7%8.8×50 +563.0%
3 Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationIndia 69.141.6%10.2×50 +1140.8%
4 University of Engineering and Technology TaxilaPakistan 68.551.6%13.2×11 +413.1%
5 Reykjavík UniversityIceland 68.053.3%29.8×18 +63.3%
6 Southeast UniversityChina 67.728.8%10.3×244 +122.9%
7 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 67.332.8%19.0×377 +58.3%
8 South China University of TechnologyChina 66.934.8%10.3×196 +95.6%
9 University of Technology SydneyAustralia 66.231.6%8.5×67 +1176.9%
10 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 65.225.2%15.1×114 +205.2%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Antenna Design and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 28% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.