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Electrical Fault Detection and Protection

Electrical Fault Detection and Protection is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 detection and localization of arc faults in electrical systems, particularly in the context of photovoltaic systems and aircraft wiring. The research involves various methods such as reflectometry, time-domain analysis, and machine learning for identifying and pinpointing series faults in wires.

  • Arc Fault
  • Detection
  • Localization
  • Electrical Systems
  • Reflectometry
  • Photovoltaic Systems
  • Time-Domain Analysis
  • Series Faults
  • Wire Diagnosis
  • Aircraft Wiring
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electrical Fault Detection and Protection

Which countries lead Electrical Fault Detection and Protection research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 346 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 346 works
  3. 3 India 262 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 95 works
  5. 5 Japan 90 works
  6. 6 Brazil 87 works
  7. 7 South Korea 84 works
  8. 8 ?? 82 works
  9. 9 Russia 81 works
  10. 10 Germany 80 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: 55.5%United States: 12.7%India: 9.7%Indonesia: 3.5%6 others listed: 18.6%55%largest
China1,504 · 55.5%United States346 · 12.7%India262 · 9.7%Indonesia95 · 3.5%6 others listed504 · 18.6%

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

Which institutions lead Electrical Fault Detection and Protection research?

By volume in 2022-now, Xi'an Jiaotong University publishes the most Electrical Fault Detection and Protection research, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (China) and China Southern Power Grid (China).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 128 works
  2. 2 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 102 works
  3. 3 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 72 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Electric (China)China 62 works
  5. 5 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 58 works
  6. 6 Electric Power Research InstituteUnited States 30 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 28 works
  8. 8 Wuhan UniversityChina 27 works
  9. 9 Chongqing UniversityChina 26 works
  10. 10 Fuzhou UniversityChina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electrical Fault Detection and Protection?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electrical Fault Detection and Protection include Kenji Watanabe, Tim Driscoll and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  2. 2 Tim Driscoll Australia 204k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  7. 7 Meletios Athanasios Dimopoulos Greece 133k 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 Electrical Fault Detection and Protection?

The most cited paper in Electrical Fault Detection and Protection is "An Overview of Lightning Locating Systems: History, Techniques, and Data Uses, With an In-Depth Look at the U.S. NLDN" (Kenneth L. Cummins, Martin J. Murphy, 2009), with 711 citations. Next come "Theory of Transient Space-Charge-Limited Currents in Solids in the Presence of Trapping" (675) and "Fault location using wavelets" (615).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Overview of Lightning Locating Systems: History, Techniques, and Data Uses, With an In-Depth Look at the U.S. NLDN Kenneth L. Cummins, Martin J. Murphy · IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility 28 Jul 2009 711
2 Theory of Transient Space-Charge-Limited Currents in Solids in the Presence of Trapping A. Many, G. Rakavy · Physical Review 15 Jun 1962 675
3 Fault location using wavelets Fernando H. Magnago, Ali Abur · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 1998 615
4 Fault detection and diagnosis methods for photovoltaic systems: A review A. Mellit, Giuseppe Marco Tina, Soteris A. Kalogirou · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 6 Apr 2018 560
5 Assessment of Voltage Unbalance Annette von Jouanne, B. Banerjee · IEEE Power Engineering Review Aug 2001 496
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Electrical Fault Detection and Protection research done?

The largest centres of Electrical Fault Detection and Protection research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xi'an, Palo Alto and Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 266 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 156 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 120 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 103 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 70 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 64 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 57 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 53 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 42 works
  10. 10 FuzhouChina 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Xi'an22.3 works94×
  2. Palo AltoUS · 30.2 works25×
  3. Beijing24.9 works18×
  4. GurgaonIN · 21.3 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electrical Fault Detection and Protection than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Electrical Fault Detection and Protection?

Among universities, judged by research, Fuzhou University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Sichuan 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 21.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sichuan UniversityShandong University …Fuzhou UniversityXi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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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
1Fuzhou UniversityChina 67.723.6%14.4×25 +192.9%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 64.113.3%23.3×128 +9.8%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 61.228.2%3.4×24 +249.3%
4Shandong University of TechnologyChina 61.127.8%14.8×12 +347.3%
5University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 55.933.3%2.2×8 +384.1%
6Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.635.0%4.5×8 +243.1%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 54.918.5%3.9×28 +36.1%
8Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 51.816.0%7.9×19 +94.4%
9North China Electric Power UniversityChina 49.17.4%27.9×58 +71.3%
10Wuhan UniversityChina 47.414.4%6.0×26 +24.5%

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 Electrical Fault Detection and Protection, country by country

Is Electrical Fault Detection and Protection research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Electrical Fault Detection and Protection.

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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 Electrical Fault Detection and Protection as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Electrical Fault Detection and Protection 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%Electrical Fault Detection and Protection9.8% 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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