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Electric Motor Design and Analysis

Electric Motor Design and Analysis is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 45k 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 focuses on the design, optimization, and application of electric motor drives for electric and hybrid electric vehicles. It covers topics such as permanent magnet machines, thermal analysis, switched reluctance motors, torque ripple reduction, high-speed applications, magnetic gearing, cogging torque reduction, and motor design optimization.

  • Electric Motor Drives
  • Permanent Magnet Machines
  • Thermal Analysis
  • Switched Reluctance Motors
  • Torque Ripple Reduction
  • High-Speed Applications
  • Hybrid Electric Vehicles
  • Magnetic Gearing
  • Cogging Torque Reduction
  • Motor Design Optimization
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electric Motor Design and Analysis

Which countries lead Electric Motor Design and Analysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.7k and 792 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.7k works
  2. 2 India 792 works
  3. 3 United States 513 works
  4. 4 Japan 388 works
  5. 5 South Korea 360 works
  6. 6 Germany 288 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 281 works
  8. 8 Italy 204 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 185 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 177 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: 53.5%India: 11.6%United States: 7.5%Japan: 5.7%6 others listed: 21.8%54%largest
China3,671 · 53.5%India792 · 11.6%United States513 · 7.5%Japan388 · 5.7%6 others listed1,494 · 21.8%

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

Which institutions lead Electric Motor Design and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harbin Institute of Technology publishes the most Electric Motor Design and Analysis research, followed by Southeast University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 185 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 171 works
  3. 3 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 137 works
  4. 4 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 132 works
  5. 5 Jiangsu UniversityChina 116 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 100 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 100 works
  8. 8 Shenyang University of TechnologyChina 82 works
  9. 9 University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom 68 works
  10. 10 Shandong UniversityChina 66 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electric Motor Design and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electric Motor Design and Analysis include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and John G.F. Cleland.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 John G.F. Cleland United Kingdom 198k citations
  4. 4 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  5. 5 Paul D. Thompson France 159k citations
  6. 6 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  7. 7 K. Satô France 148k citations
  8. 8 Stephen Boyd United States 142k citations
  9. 9 Shi Xue Dou Australia 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 Electric Motor Design and Analysis?

The most cited paper in Electric Motor Design and Analysis is "A New Quick-Response and High-Efficiency Control Strategy of an Induction Motor" (Isao Takahashi, Toshihiko Noguchi, 1986), with 3,418 citations. Next come "Remote sensing and image interpretation" (3,330) and "Direct self-control (DSC) of inverter-fed induction machine" (1,709).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A New Quick-Response and High-Efficiency Control Strategy of an Induction Motor Isao Takahashi, Toshihiko Noguchi · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Sep 1986 3,418
2 Remote sensing and image interpretation Elizabeth A. Cook · Preventive Veterinary Medicine May 1995 3,330
3 Direct self-control (DSC) of inverter-fed induction machine Manfred Depenbrock · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Oct 1988 1,709
4 Electrical Machines and Drives for Electric, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Vehicles Z. Q. Zhu, David Howe · Proceedings of the IEEE Apr 2007 1,537
5 Overview of Permanent-Magnet Brushless Drives for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles K. T. Chau, C.C. Chan, Chunhua Liu · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 29 May 2008 1,492
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Electric Motor Design and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Electric Motor Design and Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Harbin (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lappeenranta.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 462 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 429 works
  3. 3 HarbinChina 271 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 235 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 208 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 172 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 155 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 133 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 130 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 124 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LappeenrantaFI · 20.3 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Electric Motor Design and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangsu University, City University of Hong Kong and Southeast University 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 19.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Jiangsu UniversitySoutheast UniversityHarbin Institute of …
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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
1Jiangsu UniversityChina 74.127.2%18.3×116 +15.2%
2City University of Hong KongChina 73.935.3%3.8×17 +34.6%
3Southeast UniversityChina 72.516.7%14.5×171 +60.5%
4Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 67.514.4%14.2×185 +19.4%
5Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.116.9%9.5×137 +5.3%
6University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 62.822.0%13.2×55 -31.2%
7Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 62.322.2%5.1×32 +162.5%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 60.114.5%5.8×40 +24.9%
9Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 58.89.2%18.8×132 +14.6%
10Shandong UniversityChina 57.918.7%6.3×66 +72.0%

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 Electric Motor Design and Analysis, country by country

Is Electric Motor Design and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Electric Motor 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 Electric Motor Design and Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Electric Motor 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%Electric Motor Design and Analysis9.7% 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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