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Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies

Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the overview, evaluation, and various aspects of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, including its applications in IoT, security vulnerabilities, scatternet formation, interference mitigation, mesh networks, and performance analysis. It also explores device discovery, coexistence mechanisms with other wireless protocols, and energy consumption estimation for smart manufacturing.

  • Bluetooth Low Energy
  • Wireless Technology
  • IoT
  • Security
  • Scatternet Formation
  • Interference Mitigation
  • Mesh Networks
  • Performance Analysis
  • Device Discovery
  • Coexistence Mechanisms
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies

Which countries lead Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (350 and 331 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 350 works
  2. 2 China 331 works
  3. 3 United States 225 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 81 works
  5. 5 Germany 75 works
  6. 6 Italy 74 works
  7. 7 France 60 works
  8. 8 Japan 58 works
  9. 9 Spain 53 works
  10. 10 Brazil 50 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.

India: 25.8%China: 24.4%United States: 16.6%Indonesia: 5.9%6 others listed: 27.3%26%largest
India350 · 25.8%China331 · 24.4%United States225 · 16.6%Indonesia81 · 5.9%6 others listed370 · 27.3%

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

Which institutions lead Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 10 works
  3. 3 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 10 works
  4. 4 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 9 works
  5. 5 Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica BucureștiRomania 8 works
  6. 6 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 8 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 8 works
  8. 8 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 8 works
  9. 9 Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaSpain 8 works
  10. 10 Xidian UniversityChina 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Kai You Wang and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k 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 Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies?

The most cited paper in Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies is "Wireless sensor networks: a survey" (Ian Fuat Akyildiz, Weilian Su, Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam et al., 2002), with 17,476 citations. Next come "Understanding and Using Context" (5,019) and "Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring" (4,182).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Wireless sensor networks: a survey Ian Fuat Akyildiz, Weilian Su, Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam et al. · Computer Networks Mar 2002 17,476
2 Understanding and Using Context Anind K. Dey · Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Open access 28 Feb 2001 5,019
3 Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring Alan M. Mainwaring, David Culler, Joseph Polastre et al. Conference paper 28 Sep 2002 4,182
4 Context-Aware Computing Applications Bill N. Schilit, Norman I. Adams, Roy Want Conference paper Dec 1994 3,215
5 Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) Standards in the United States John B. Kenney · Proceedings of the IEEE 20 Jun 2011 2,413
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Coimbatore.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 66 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 36 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 25 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 23 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 23 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 22 works
  7. 7 CoimbatoreIndia 21 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 19 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 18 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CoimbatoreIN · 20.6 works5.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies than the world average.

See Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies on the map

Where is the best place to study Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Vellore Institute of Technology University and Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București 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.

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
1Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 85.210.1%9.8×10 +46.6%
2Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 60.815.1%4.9×9 -14.0%
3Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica BucureștiRomania 20.03.6%18.2×8 -44.9%

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 Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies, country by country

Is Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0090% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies0.0086% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies 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%Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies10.2% 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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