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Energy and Environmental Systems

Energy and Environmental Systems is a research topic within Transportation. Science Explorer counts 5.2k research works in it since 1958. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to disaster management, urban resilience, and technological solutions for emergency situations. It includes research on mobile computing, IoT, predictive modeling for disasters, energy consumption in buildings, smart city development, cattle health monitoring, and environmental sustainability. The papers aim to improve support systems for firefighters, design intelligent disaster prediction models, and develop decision support systems for typhoon and flood management.

  • Disaster Management
  • Urban Resilience
  • Smart City
  • IoT
  • Cattle Health Monitoring
  • Energy Consumption
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Mobile Computing
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Emergency Response
Research works
5.2k
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
539
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+53%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Energy and Environmental Systems research?

By volume, China and South Korea publish the most (271 and 258 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 271 works
  2. 2 South Korea 258 works
  3. 3 India 122 works
  4. 4 Japan 116 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 78 works
  6. 6 United States 71 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 26 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 25 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 25 works
  10. 10 Thailand 20 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: 26.8%South Korea: 25.5%India: 12.0%Japan: 11.4%6 others listed: 24.2%27%largest
China271 · 26.8%South Korea258 · 25.5%India122 · 12.0%Japan116 · 11.4%6 others listed245 · 24.2%

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

Which institutions lead Energy and Environmental Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Seoul National University publishes the most Energy and Environmental Systems research, followed by Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology and Chiba University.

Who are the leading researchers in Energy and Environmental Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Energy and Environmental Systems include Ki‐Hyun Kim.

  1. 1 Ki‐Hyun Kim South Korea 108k 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 Energy and Environmental Systems?

The most cited paper in Energy and Environmental Systems is "Prevalence of Internet addiction and correlations with family factors among South Korean adolescents." (Soo Kyung Park, Jae Yop Kim, Choon Bum Cho, 2008), with 427 citations. Next come "Energy savings by energy management systems: A review" (392) and "Korean ubiquitous-eco-city: A smart-sustainable urban form or a branding hoax?" (316).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prevalence of Internet addiction and correlations with family factors among South Korean adolescents. Soo Kyung Park, Jae Yop Kim, Choon Bum Cho · PubMed 2008 427
2 Energy savings by energy management systems: A review Dasheng Lee, Chin‐Chi Cheng · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 18 Dec 2015 392
3 Korean ubiquitous-eco-city: A smart-sustainable urban form or a branding hoax? Tan Yiğitcanlar, Sang Ho Lee · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Open access 30 Sep 2013 316
4 Indoor air quality investigation according to age of the school buildings in Korea Wonho Yang, Jong–Ryeul Sohn, Ji‐Hwan Kim et al. · Journal of Environmental Management 22 Feb 2008 236
5 Pore structure of porous ceramics synthesized from water-based slurry by freeze-dry process Tomonori Fukasawa, Zhen‐Yan Deng, Motohide Ando et al. · Journal of Materials Science May 2001 211
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Energy and Environmental Systems research done?

The largest centres of Energy and Environmental Systems research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Daejeon (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Daejeon and Seoul.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 93 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 56 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 35 works
  4. 4 DaejeonSouth Korea 28 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 19 works
  6. 6 BusanSouth Korea 17 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 16 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 14 works
  9. 9 JakartaIndonesia 13 works
  10. 10 Goyang-siSouth Korea 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DaejeonKR · 27.8 works12×
  2. SeoulKR · 93.1 works9.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Energy and Environmental Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Energy and Environmental Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Chiba 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.

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
1Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 85.59.4%12.7×16 +14.5%
2Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 44.413.5%9.4×10 -34.7%
3Chiba UniversityJapan 16.61.4%33.1×10 +6.3%

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 Energy and Environmental Systems, country by country

Is Energy and Environmental Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 53% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Energy and Environmental Systems.

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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 Energy and Environmental Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0083% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Energy and Environmental Systems 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%Energy and Environmental Systems11.2% 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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