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Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1953. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the integration of electric vehicles into power systems, including topics such as vehicle-to-grid technology, charging infrastructure, renewable energy integration, grid impact, battery technology, consumer adoption, smart grid interactions, life cycle assessment, and sustainability.

  • Electric Vehicles
  • Vehicle-to-Grid
  • Charging Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy Integration
  • Grid Impact
  • Battery Technology
  • Consumer Adoption
  • Smart Grid
  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • Sustainability
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+80%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

Which countries lead Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (5k and 2.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 5k works
  2. 2 India 2.5k works
  3. 3 United States 1.5k works
  4. 4 Germany 685 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 571 works
  6. 6 Italy 518 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 366 works
  8. 8 Canada 323 works
  9. 9 Australia 314 works
  10. 10 South Korea 313 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: 41.2%India: 20.7%United States: 12.6%Germany: 5.7%6 others listed: 19.9%41%largest
China4,984 · 41.2%India2,511 · 20.7%United States1,521 · 12.6%Germany685 · 5.7%6 others listed2,404 · 19.9%

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

Which institutions lead Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 155 works
  2. 2 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 148 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 126 works
  4. 4 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 118 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 99 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Electric (China)China 96 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 83 works
  8. 8 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 81 works
  9. 9 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 79 works
  10. 10 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 76 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure include Philippe Ciais, Frede Blaabjerg and Seeram Ramakrishna.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  5. 5 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 Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure?

The most cited paper in Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure is "Policy Gradient Methods for Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation" (Richard S. Sutton, David McAllester, Satinder Pal Singh et al., 1999), with 4,956 citations. Next come "A review on the key issues for lithium-ion battery management in electric vehicles" (4,815) and "Review of Battery Charger Topologies, Charging Power Levels, and Infrastructure for Plug-In Electric and Hybrid Vehicles" (3,103).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Policy Gradient Methods for Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation Richard S. Sutton, David McAllester, Satinder Pal Singh et al. 29 Nov 1999 4,956
2 A review on the key issues for lithium-ion battery management in electric vehicles Languang Lu, Xuebing Han, Jianqiu Li et al. · Journal of Power Sources 26 Nov 2012 4,815
3 Review of Battery Charger Topologies, Charging Power Levels, and Infrastructure for Plug-In Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Murat Yılmaz, Philip T. Krein · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 23 Aug 2012 3,103
4 The Impact of Charging Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles on a Residential Distribution Grid Kristien Clement-Nyns, Edwin Haesen, Johan Driesen · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Open access 21 Dec 2009 2,856
5 Vehicle-to-grid power fundamentals: Calculating capacity and net revenue Willett M. Kempton, J. Tomić · Journal of Power Sources 13 Apr 2005 2,317
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Where is Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure research done?

The largest centres of Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure 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 Oshawa, Yangpu and Lappeenranta.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 978 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 441 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 320 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 222 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 214 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 203 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 198 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 196 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 168 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 148 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OshawaCA · 20.3 works11×
  2. YangpuCN · 34.6 works11×
  3. LappeenrantaFI · 21.1 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Beijing Institute of Technology and Tsinghua 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 24.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Qatar UniversityBeijing Institute of…Hong Kong Polytechni…Tsinghua University
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 75.420.3%4.9×64 +267.3%
2Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 74.521.9%6.6×118 +29.3%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 71.919.3%3.6×126 +26.2%
4Qatar UniversityQatar 70.429.5%5.2×23 +17.8%
5Aalborg UniversityDenmark 69.525.0%5.3×46 +46.6%
6Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 69.228.1%5.0×22 +241.8%
7University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 67.627.4%1.5×27 +74.7%
8Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.025.8%3.4×21 +166.4%
9Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 64.718.8%5.3×79 +152.3%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 64.424.0%1.9×34 +173.1%

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 Vehicles and Infrastructure, country by country

Is Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 80% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure.

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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 Vehicles and Infrastructure as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.075% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure0.079% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure 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 Vehicles and Infrastructure9.8% in 202520102020

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 electric vehicle research?

By volume in 2022-now, North China Electric Power University publishes the most Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure research, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (China) and Tsinghua University. By volume, China and India publish the most (5k and 2.5k works in 2022-now).

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