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. 8.4% 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%
- 440 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 8.4% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -20% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Energy and Environmental Systems research?
By volume, China and South Korea publish the most (260 and 248 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 260 works
- 2 South Korea 248 works
- 3 India 119 works
- 4 Japan 110 works
- 5 Indonesia 78 works
- 6 United States 70 works
- 7 Malaysia 25 works
- 8 Türkiye 25 works
- 9 United Kingdom 24 works
- 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Energy and Environmental Systems research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Seoul National University publishes the most Energy and Environmental Systems research, followed by Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology and Yonsei University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 13 works
- 2 Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building TechnologySouth Korea 12 works
- 3 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 9 works
- 4 Chiba UniversityJapan 8 works
- 5 Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 7 works
- 6 Hanbat National UniversitySouth Korea 7 works
- 7 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 6 works
- 8 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 6 works
- 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 6 works
- 10 Pusan National UniversitySouth Korea 6 works
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 Ki‐Hyun Kim South Korea 2.3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Energy and Environmental Systems research done?
The largest centres of Energy and Environmental Systems research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- DaejeonKR · 26.8 works12×
- SeoulKR · 89.9 works9.6×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Energy and Environmental Systems than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Energy and Environmental Systems?
Among universities, judged by research, Seoul National University and Yonsei 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.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea | 75.0 | 8.0% | 13.9× | 13 | -10.5% |
| 2 | Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea | 11.6 | 6.2% | 10.5× | 9 | -23.5% |
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 Energy and Environmental Systems research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 20% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Energy and Environmental Systems.
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.