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Antenna Design and Optimization

Antenna Design and Optimization is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 33k 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 application of advanced optimization techniques such as Particle Swarm Optimization, Differential Evolution, and Genetic Algorithms to the design and synthesis of antenna arrays. The research covers various types of arrays including linear, planar, circular, and phased arrays, with an emphasis on achieving optimal performance in terms of sidelobe level suppression, null control, and beamforming.

  • Antenna Arrays
  • Optimization
  • Particle Swarm Optimization
  • Differential Evolution
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Sparse Arrays
  • Linear Array Synthesis
  • Time-Modulated Arrays
  • Phased Array Antennas
  • Pattern Synthesis
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+58%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Antenna Design and Optimization

Which countries lead Antenna Design and Optimization research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.4k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.4k works
  2. 2 India 1.1k works
  3. 3 United States 674 works
  4. 4 Russia 216 works
  5. 5 Japan 198 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 198 works
  7. 7 South Korea 196 works
  8. 8 Italy 186 works
  9. 9 Germany 179 works
  10. 10 Canada 142 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: 52.6%India: 16.7%United States: 10.4%Russia: 3.3%6 others listed: 17.0%53%largest
China3,407 · 52.6%India1,082 · 16.7%United States674 · 10.4%Russia216 · 3.3%6 others listed1,100 · 17.0%

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

Which institutions lead Antenna Design and Optimization research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 249 works
  2. 2 Xidian UniversityChina 210 works
  3. 3 Southeast UniversityChina 147 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 117 works
  5. 5 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 83 works
  6. 6 South China University of TechnologyChina 82 works
  7. 7 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 81 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 77 works
  9. 9 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 74 works
  10. 10 China Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationChina 71 works

Who are the leading researchers in Antenna Design and Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Antenna Design and Optimization include Kai You Wang, H. Vincent Poor and Seyedali Mirjalili.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  4. 4 Stephen Boyd United States 142k 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 Optimization?

The most cited paper in Antenna Design and Optimization is "Antenna theory, analysis, and design" (William F. Croswell, 1982), with 8,649 citations. Next come "Antenna theory; analysis and design" (3,746) and "LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray" (2,718).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Antenna theory, analysis, and design William F. Croswell · IRE Transactions on Telemetry and Remote Control 1982 8,649
2 Antenna theory; analysis and design Rajeev Bansal · Proceedings of the IEEE Jul 1984 3,746
3 LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray M. P. van Haarlem et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access201 authors 15 May 2013 2,718
4 Wireless Communications and Applications Above 100 GHz: Opportunities and Challenges for 6G and Beyond Theodore S. Rappaport, Yunchou Xing, Ojas Kanhere et al. · IEEE Access Open access 2019 2,625
5 Applications of second-order cone programming Miguel Sousa Lobo, Lieven Vandenberghe, Stephen Boyd et al. · Linear Algebra and its Applications Open access Nov 1998 2,442
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Antenna Design and Optimization research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 679 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 430 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 371 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 321 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 175 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 167 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 110 works
  8. 8 BengaluruIndia 109 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 104 works
  10. 10 HefeiChina 99 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nanjing35.3 works40×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Antenna Design and Optimization on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Southeast 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%mean 25.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chinese University o…Southeast UniversityUniversity of Electr…South China Universi…
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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
1University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 68.819.5%30.9×249 +47.3%
2Chinese University of Hong Kong, ShenzhenChina 65.144.5%6.6×9 +626.0%
3Southeast UniversityChina 64.820.0%13.8×147 +246.0%
4South China University of TechnologyChina 60.519.0%10.5×82 +303.7%
5Xidian UniversityChina 60.311.0%40.2×210 +84.8%
6University of Hong KongChina 59.839.4%1.5×10 +103.4%
7City University of Hong KongChina 58.923.2%5.8×24 +175.3%
8Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 57.134.1%3.6×21 +132.6%
9University of Technology SydneyAustralia 56.820.8%8.6×27 +67.8%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 52.418.9%3.7×32 +189.4%

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 Optimization, country by country

Is Antenna Design and Optimization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 58% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Antenna Design and Optimization.

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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 Optimization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.051% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Antenna Design and Optimization0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Antenna Design and Optimization 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 Optimization9.7% 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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