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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. 19.5% 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%
5.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+32%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Electric Power System Optimization research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.4k and 517 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 2.4k works
  2. 2 India 517 works
  3. 3 United States 496 works
  4. 4 Iran 197 works
  5. 5 Germany 165 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 147 works
  7. 7 Brazil 120 works
  8. 8 Spain 120 works
  9. 9 Australia 106 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 95 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: 55.2%India: 11.8%United States: 11.3%Iran: 4.5%6 others listed: 17.2%55%largest
China2,420 · 55.2%India517 · 11.8%United States496 · 11.3%Iran197 · 4.5%6 others listed753 · 17.2%

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

Which institutions lead Electric Power System Optimization research?

By volume in 2022–2025, 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 North China Electric Power University China 181 works
  2. 2 State Grid Corporation of China (China) China 119 works
  3. 3 China Southern Power Grid (China) China 94 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Electric (China) China 87 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua University China 74 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong University China 69 works
  7. 7 South China University of Technology China 62 works
  8. 8 Southeast University China 53 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 51 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang University China 49 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electric Power System Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electric Power System Optimization include H. Vincent Poor, Josep M. Guerrero and Georgios B. Giannakis.

  1. 1 H. Vincent Poor 9.5k citations
  2. 2 Josep M. Guerrero 5.6k citations
  3. 3 Georgios B. Giannakis 4.6k citations
  4. 4 Manfred Morari 3.4k citations
  5. 5 Mohammad Shahidehpour 3.3k citations
  6. 6 Andrea Goldsmith 3.2k citations
  7. 7 Zhao Yang Dong 3.1k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Electric Power System Optimization research done?

The largest centres of Electric Power System Optimization research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Nanjing (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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 549 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 195 works
  3. 3 Guangzhou China 183 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 179 works
  5. 5 Wuhan China 116 works
  6. 6 Xi'an China 105 works
  7. 7 Hangzhou China 86 works
  8. 8 Chengdu China 85 works
  9. 9 Jinan China 75 works
  10. 10 Tehran Iran 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YangpuCN · 35.6 works32×
  2. Beijing45.1 works18×
  3. Jilin CityCN · 29.5 works15×
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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, Aswan University, North China Electric Power University and Hohai 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 21.67%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Aswan University: 9, 44.6%North China Electric Power University: 181, 18.2%Hohai University: 46, 14.1%Northeast Electric Power University: 29, 12.6%Tianjin University: 37, 28.5%Southeast University: 53, 17.8%Tsinghua University: 74, 22.4%South China University of Technology: 62, 9.6%Xi'an University of Technology: 15, 35.8%Xi'an Jiaotong University: 69, 13.1%Aswan UniversityNorth China Electric…Hohai UniversityNortheast Electric P…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Aswan University Egypt 64.744.6%17.9×9
2North China Electric Power University China 60.918.2%45.8×181 +30.1%
3Hohai University China 57.114.1%14.0×46 +136.9%
4Northeast Electric Power University China 56.912.6%36.5×29 +225.5%
5Tianjin University China 55.828.5%5.2×37 +282.9%
6Southeast University China 55.617.8%6.6×53 +298.4%
7Tsinghua University China 54.322.4%6.3×74 +114.2%
8South China University of Technology China 53.89.6%9.6×62 +117.0%
9Xi'an University of Technology China 53.035.8%7.6×15 +88.3%
10Xi'an Jiaotong University China 51.913.1%7.2×69 +146.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Electric Power System Optimization research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.