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Cloud Computing and Resource Management

Cloud Computing and Resource Management is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 56k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to cloud computing, big data technologies, and data center management. It includes discussions on MapReduce, virtualization, Hadoop, resource management, energy efficiency, scalability, and distributed systems. The papers also address challenges and opportunities in the field of cloud computing and big data.

  • Cloud Computing
  • Big Data
  • MapReduce
  • Virtualization
  • Data Centers
  • Resource Management
  • Hadoop
  • Distributed Systems
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Scalability
Research works
56k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cloud Computing and Resource Management

Which countries lead Cloud Computing and Resource Management research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.2k and 2.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.2k works
  2. 2 India 2.7k works
  3. 3 United States 2.4k works
  4. 4 Germany 394 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 344 works
  6. 6 Brazil 311 works
  7. 7 Italy 292 works
  8. 8 South Korea 245 works
  9. 9 Canada 245 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 240 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: 30.7%India: 25.9%United States: 23.5%Germany: 3.8%6 others listed: 16.2%31%largest
China3,176 · 30.7%India2,683 · 25.9%United States2,431 · 23.5%Germany394 · 3.8%6 others listed1,676 · 16.2%

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

Which institutions lead Cloud Computing and Resource Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Cloud Computing and Resource Management research, followed by Film Independent and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 140 works
  2. 2 Film IndependentUnited States 133 works
  3. 3 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 91 works
  4. 4 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 90 works
  5. 5 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 76 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 74 works
  7. 7 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 67 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 66 works
  9. 9 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 64 works
  10. 10 Microsoft (United States)United States 62 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cloud Computing and Resource Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cloud Computing and Resource Management include Xiaogang Wang, Li Fei-Fei and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Cloud Computing and Resource Management?

The most cited paper in Cloud Computing and Resource Management is "MapReduce" (Jay B. Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, 2008), with 18,671 citations. Next come "Suspending OpenMP Tasks on Asynchronous Events: Extending the Taskwait Construct" (12,967) and "A view of cloud computing" (9,132).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MapReduce Jay B. Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat · Communications of the ACM Open access 2008 18,671
2 Suspending OpenMP Tasks on Asynchronous Events: Extending the Taskwait Construct Romain Pereira, M. N. Martin, Adrien Roussel et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paperOpen access 2023 12,967
3 A view of cloud computing Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith et al. · Communications of the ACM Open access 30 Mar 2010 9,132
4 The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke · The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications Aug 2001 6,580
5 Cloud computing and emerging IT platforms: Vision, hype, and reality for delivering computing as the 5th utility Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal et al. · Future Generation Computer Systems 12 Dec 2008 5,956
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cloud Computing and Resource Management research done?

The largest centres of Cloud Computing and Resource Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Redmond.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 709 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 252 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 225 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 182 works
  5. 5 BengaluruIndia 176 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 167 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 166 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 161 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 135 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 131 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RedmondUS · 35.1 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cloud Computing and Resource Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cloud Computing and Resource Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, The University of Melbourne and SRM Institute of Science and Technology 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 21.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Me…Islamic Azad Univers…Sun Yat-sen UniversitySRM Institute of Sci…
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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
1Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 69.130.6%3.7×76 -22.1%
2The University of MelbourneAustralia 63.531.9%1.7×23 -26.2%
3SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 60.69.7%7.2×90 +155.8%
4Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 58.517.1%1.8×46 +62.0%
5Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 58.39.1%11.5×91 +6.0%
6VIT-AP University 57.234.3%11.5×10 -
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 56.820.3%2.1×59 +3.2%
8Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 56.526.9%2.0×19 +2.7%
9TU WienAustria 56.319.0%6.4×24 +7.1%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 55.911.5%2.1×74 +15.0%

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 Cloud Computing and Resource Management, country by country

Is Cloud Computing and Resource Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cloud Computing and Resource Management.

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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 Cloud Computing and Resource Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.060% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Cloud Computing and Resource Management0.066% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cloud Computing and Resource Management 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%Cloud Computing and Resource Management9.7% 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.

Questions people ask

Who leads cloud computing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Cloud Computing and Resource Management research, followed by Film Independent and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. By volume, China and India publish the most (3.2k and 2.7k works in 2022-now).

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