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Energy Efficiency and Management

Energy Efficiency and Management is a research topic within Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on energy efficiency in manufacturing and the industrial sector, addressing topics such as energy consumption, resource efficiency, policy implications, barriers to implementation, machine tools, and sustainability. It explores strategies for reducing energy usage, optimizing processes, and promoting renewable energy in manufacturing and industry.

  • Energy Efficiency
  • Manufacturing
  • Industrial Sector
  • Energy Consumption
  • Resource Efficient
  • Policy
  • Barriers
  • Machine Tools
  • Sustainability
  • Renewable Energy
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Energy Efficiency and Management

Which countries lead Energy Efficiency and Management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (697 and 432 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 697 works
  2. 2 United States 432 works
  3. 3 India 276 works
  4. 4 Germany 250 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 170 works
  6. 6 Italy 149 works
  7. 7 Spain 104 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 103 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 93 works
  10. 10 France 79 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: 29.6%United States: 18.4%India: 11.7%Germany: 10.6%6 others listed: 29.6%30%largest
China697 · 29.6%United States432 · 18.4%India276 · 11.7%Germany250 · 10.6%6 others listed697 · 29.6%

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

Which institutions lead Energy Efficiency and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft publishes the most Energy Efficiency and Management research, followed by North China Electric Power University and RWTH Aachen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 32 works
  2. 2 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 25 works
  3. 3 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 22 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 22 works
  5. 5 Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 20 works
  6. 6 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 19 works
  7. 7 National Technical University of AthensGreece 19 works
  8. 8 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 16 works
  9. 9 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 16 works
  10. 10 Chongqing UniversityChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Energy Efficiency and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Energy Efficiency and Management include Frede Blaabjerg, Hua Zhang and Kalyanmoy Deb.

  1. 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  2. 2 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  3. 3 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  4. 4 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k 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 Efficiency and Management?

The most cited paper in Energy Efficiency and Management is "A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation" (Wokje Abrahamse, Linda Steg, Charles A. J. Vlek et al., 2005), with 2,686 citations. Next come "A review on the prediction of building energy consumption" (1,957) and "Modeling of end-use energy consumption in the residential sector: A review of modeling techniques" (1,942).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation Wokje Abrahamse, Linda Steg, Charles A. J. Vlek et al. · Journal of Environmental Psychology Open access Sep 2005 2,686
2 A review on the prediction of building energy consumption Hai‐Xiang Zhao, Frédéric Magoulès · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 28 Apr 2012 1,957
3 Modeling of end-use energy consumption in the residential sector: A review of modeling techniques Lukas G. Swan, V. Ismet Ugursal · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 10 Jan 2009 1,942
4 Thermal comfort and building energy consumption implications – A review Liu Yang, Haiyan Yan, Joseph C. Lam · Applied Energy 27 Nov 2013 1,446
5 The energy-efficiency gap What does it mean? Adam B. Jaffe, Robert N. Stavins · Energy Policy Oct 1994 1,437
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Energy Efficiency and Management research done?

The largest centres of Energy Efficiency and Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kongens Lyngby, Trondheim and Karlsruhe.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 130 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 54 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 46 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 40 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 37 works
  7. 7 AthensGreece 31 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 28 works
  9. 9 MilanItaly 28 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kongens LyngbyDK · 20.6 works9.9×
  2. TrondheimNO · 21.8 works6.7×
  3. KarlsruheDE · 20.1 works6.5×
  4. AachenDE · 23.5 works6.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Energy Efficiency and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Energy Efficiency and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, National Technical University of Athens and Norwegian University of Science and 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 15.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…National Technical U…Norwegian University…North China Electric…
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 73.626.2%4.2×13 +40.1%
2National Technical University of AthensGreece 67.517.1%20.0×19 +52.4%
3Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 67.016.6%7.1×15 +7.2%
4North China Electric Power UniversityChina 66.913.8%10.3×25 +37.7%
5Politecnico di MilanoItaly 63.48.6%7.3×19 +23.0%
6RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 62.810.9%7.6×22 +8.4%
7Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 61.513.0%11.0×20 -9.8%
8University of Naples Federico IIItaly 59.123.0%3.2×8 +161.7%
9Tianjin UniversityChina 55.414.5%3.1×14 +72.1%
10Chongqing UniversityChina 55.013.6%4.0×16 +4.2%

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 Efficiency and Management, country by country

Is Energy Efficiency and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Energy Efficiency and Management.

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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 Efficiency and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Energy Efficiency and Management 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 Efficiency and Management10.4% 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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