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Electric Power System Optimization

Electric Power System Optimization is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 operation and optimization of electricity markets, with a particular emphasis on unit commitment, economic dispatch, renewable energy integration, market power, transmission expansion planning, stochastic optimization, wind power forecasting, ancillary services, electricity market reform, and price volatility.

  • Unit Commitment
  • Economic Dispatch
  • Renewable Energy Integration
  • Market Power
  • Transmission Expansion Planning
  • Stochastic Optimization
  • Wind Power Forecasting
  • Ancillary Services
  • Electricity Market Reform
  • Price Volatility
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electric Power System Optimization

Which countries lead Electric Power System Optimization research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.9k and 585 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.9k works
  2. 2 India 585 works
  3. 3 United States 568 works
  4. 4 Iran 214 works
  5. 5 Germany 185 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 174 works
  7. 7 Brazil 138 works
  8. 8 Spain 134 works
  9. 9 Australia 115 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 106 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: 56.5%India: 11.5%United States: 11.1%Iran: 4.2%6 others listed: 16.7%57%largest
China2,885 · 56.5%India585 · 11.5%United States568 · 11.1%Iran214 · 4.2%6 others listed852 · 16.7%

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

Which institutions lead Electric Power System Optimization research?

By volume in 2022-now, North China Electric Power University publishes the most Electric Power System Optimization research, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (China) and China Southern Power Grid (China).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 211 works
  2. 2 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 180 works
  3. 3 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 105 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Electric (China)China 101 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 83 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 83 works
  7. 7 South China University of TechnologyChina 68 works
  8. 8 Southeast UniversityChina 62 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 60 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electric Power System Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electric Power System Optimization include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  4. 4 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  5. 5 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  7. 7 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  8. 8 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  9. 9 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 Electric Power System Optimization?

The most cited paper in Electric Power System Optimization is "MATPOWER: Steady-State Operations, Planning, and Analysis Tools for Power Systems Research and Education" (Ray Daniel Zimmerman, Carlos Edmundo Murillo-Sanchez, Robert John Thomas, 2010), with 6,899 citations. Next come "Distributed generation: a definition" (2,507) and "Particle Swarm Optimization: Basic Concepts, Variants and Applications in Power Systems" (2,284).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MATPOWER: Steady-State Operations, Planning, and Analysis Tools for Power Systems Research and Education Ray Daniel Zimmerman, Carlos Edmundo Murillo-Sanchez, Robert John Thomas · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 25 Jun 2010 6,899
2 Distributed generation: a definition Thomas Ackermann, Göran Andersson, Lennart Söder · Electric Power Systems Research Apr 2001 2,507
3 Particle Swarm Optimization: Basic Concepts, Variants and Applications in Power Systems Yamille del Valle, Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Salman Mohagheghi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Apr 2008 2,284
4 Optimal capacitor placement on radial distribution systems Mesut E. Baran, F.F. Wu · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 1989 2,077
5 A summary of demand response in electricity markets Mohammed Albadi, Ehab Fahmy El-Saadany · Electric Power Systems Research 22 May 2008 1,889
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Electric Power System Optimization research done?

The largest centres of Electric Power System Optimization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yangpu, Beijing and Jilin City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 637 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 226 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 209 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 203 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 136 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 125 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 98 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 97 works
  9. 9 JinanChina 83 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 79 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YangpuCN · 40.1 works32×
  2. Beijing48.0 works18×
  3. Jilin CityCN · 33.6 works15×
  4. YichangCN · 21.8 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electric Power System Optimization than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Electric Power System Optimization?

Among universities, judged by research, North China Electric Power University, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and Tsinghua 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.

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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
1North China Electric Power UniversityChina 57.013.4%52.3×211 +5.0%
2Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 52.931.0%4.5×11 +217.2%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 52.016.2%6.0×83 -1.0%
4Tianjin UniversityChina 51.820.8%5.3×39 +34.5%
5Southeast UniversityChina 51.413.8%7.0×62 +36.1%
6Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 51.211.4%7.9×83 +51.5%
7Xi'an University of TechnologyChina 51.228.1%9.0×18 +24.3%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 51.224.0%3.3×17 +146.9%
9Hohai UniversityChina 49.412.8%14.8×53 +30.3%
10Central South UniversityChina 48.938.5%0.8×9 +3.0%

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 Electric Power System Optimization, country by country

Is Electric Power System Optimization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Electric Power System 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 Electric Power System Optimization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Electric Power System Optimization0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Electric Power System 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%Electric Power System Optimization10.0% 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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