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Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology

Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the science and technology of electromagnetic launch systems, including railguns, coilguns, and pulsed power supplies. It covers topics such as armature transition mechanisms, thermal-chemical erosion in gun barrels, plasma-propellant interaction, and the development of naval railguns.

  • Electromagnetic Launch
  • Railgun
  • Pulsed Power
  • Armature Transition
  • Thermal-Chemical Erosion
  • Inductive Pulsed-Power Supply
  • Plasma-Propellant Interaction
  • Coilgun
  • Naval Railgun
  • Capacitor-Based Pulsed-Power System
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology

Which countries lead Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 217 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 217 works
  3. 3 India 125 works
  4. 4 Russia 105 works
  5. 5 Poland 55 works
  6. 6 Japan 54 works
  7. 7 Germany 44 works
  8. 8 South Korea 40 works
  9. 9 France 39 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 37 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: 63.1%United States: 11.2%India: 6.5%Russia: 5.4%6 others listed: 13.9%63%largest
China1,223 · 63.1%United States217 · 11.2%India125 · 6.5%Russia105 · 5.4%6 others listed269 · 13.9%

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

Which institutions lead Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing University of Science and Technology publishes the most Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 129 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66 works
  3. 3 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 49 works
  4. 4 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 40 works
  5. 5 Northwest Institute of Mechanical and Electrical EngineeringChina 33 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 31 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 29 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 28 works
  9. 9 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 27 works
  10. 10 Naval University of EngineeringChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology include Xiaogang Wang, P. Jackson and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  6. 6 Lin Gu China 159k citations
  7. 7 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology?

The most cited paper in Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology is "Numerical solution of initial boundary value problems involving maxwell's equations in isotropic media" (Kane S. Yee, 1966), with 14,949 citations. Next come "The relation between load and penetration in the axisymmetric boussinesq problem for a punch of arbitrary profile" (4,366) and "Toward a smart grid: power delivery for the 21st century" (1,631).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Numerical solution of initial boundary value problems involving maxwell's equations in isotropic media Kane S. Yee · IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation May 1966 14,949
2 The relation between load and penetration in the axisymmetric boussinesq problem for a punch of arbitrary profile Ian Naismith Sneddon · International Journal of Engineering Science May 1965 4,366
3 Toward a smart grid: power delivery for the 21st century S. Massoud Amin, B.F. Wollenberg · IEEE Power and Energy Magazine Sep 2005 1,631
4 Review of maglev train technologies Hyung-Woo Lee, Ki‐Chan Kim, Ju Lee · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 28 Jun 2006 944
5 The mechanics of penetration of projectiles into targets Marvin E. Backman, Werner Goldsmith · International Journal of Engineering Science 1978 866
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology research done?

The largest centres of Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xianyang, Nanjing and Xi'an.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 253 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 177 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 120 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 92 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 45 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 42 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 36 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 35 works
  9. 9 XianyangChina 33 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XianyangCN · 33.1 works66×
  2. NanjingCN · 176.6 works8.0×
  3. Xi'anCN · 119.9 works6.9×
  4. TaiyuanCN · 25.9 works6.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Harbin Institute of Technology 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%10%20%30%mean 15.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwestern Polytec…Harbin Institute of …Nanjing University o…Huazhong 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.

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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 79.826.3%12.1×27 +46.8%
2Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 79.515.1%80.4×129 +48.1%
3Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 74.523.6%8.7×28 +3.8%
4Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 62.87.8%11.3×40 +30.6%
5Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 61.012.8%21.0×49 +26.9%
6Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 58.511.9%8.9×31 +22.9%
7Beihang UniversityChina 54.316.2%6.7×15 +23.4%
8Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 53.613.5%10.5×16 -19.4%
9Chongqing UniversityChina 52.612.5%5.8×12 +281.7%
10Dalian University of TechnologyChina 50.911.4%6.1×11 +63.0%

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 Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology, country by country

Is Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology.

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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 Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0098% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology0.0092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology 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%Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology10.0% 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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