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Engine and Fuel Emissions

Engine and Fuel Emissions is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of topics related to automotive engineering, fuel technology, and environmental impact. It covers areas such as common rail injectors, fuel emissions from diesel engines, vehicle diagnostics, energy efficiency in automotive systems, and the use of renewable energy in the automotive industry. Additionally, it explores the intersection of automotive engineering with sustainable agriculture and control systems for vehicles.

  • Common Rail Injectors
  • Fuel Emissions
  • Diesel Engine
  • Vehicle Diagnostics
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Environmental Impact
  • Automotive Technology
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Control Systems
  • Renewable Energy
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-46%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Engine and Fuel Emissions research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (282 and 107 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 282 works
  2. 2 Russia 107 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 82 works
  4. 4 United States 60 works
  5. 5 Slovakia 33 works
  6. 6 China 33 works
  7. 7 Romania 25 works
  8. 8 Czechia 21 works
  9. 9 India 19 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 18 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.

Poland: 41.5%Russia: 15.8%Ukraine: 12.1%United States: 8.8%6 others listed: 21.8%42%largest
Poland282 · 41.5%Russia107 · 15.8%Ukraine82 · 12.1%United States60 · 8.8%6 others listed148 · 21.8%

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

Which institutions lead Engine and Fuel Emissions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Combustion Institute publishes the most Engine and Fuel Emissions research, followed by Military University of Technology in Warsaw and Warsaw University of Technology.

Who are the leading researchers in Engine and Fuel Emissions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Engine and Fuel Emissions include Richard S. J. Frackowiak and A. Olszewski.

  1. 1 Richard S. J. Frackowiak United Kingdom 142k citations
  2. 2 A. Olszewski United States 121k 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 Engine and Fuel Emissions?

The most cited paper in Engine and Fuel Emissions is "Advanced compression-ignition engines—understanding the in-cylinder processes" (John E. Dec, 2008), with 1,023 citations. Next come "The computational structure of life cycle assessment" (516) and "Fuel Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) Combustion in Light- and Heavy-Duty Engines" (324).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Advanced compression-ignition engines—understanding the in-cylinder processes John E. Dec · Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 6 Oct 2008 1,023
2 The computational structure of life cycle assessment Reinout Heijungs, Sangwon Sun · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment Sep 2002 516
3 Fuel Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) Combustion in Light- and Heavy-Duty Engines Sage L Kokjohn, Reed M. Hanson, Derek A. Splitter et al. · SAE International Journal of Engines 4 Apr 2011 324
4 Principles of combustion James S. T’ien · Combustion and Flame Sep 1988 303
5 Combustion Control Technologies for Direct Injection SI Engine T. Kume, Y. Iwamoto, Kazumasa Iida et al. · SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series Conference paper Feb 1996 286
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Engine and Fuel Emissions research done?

The largest centres of Engine and Fuel Emissions research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Poznań (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Poznań and Warsaw.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 70 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 32 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 25 works
  4. 4 PoznańPoland 24 works
  5. 5 KrakowPoland 22 works
  6. 6 PittsburghUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 KharkivUkraine 16 works
  8. 8 GliwicePoland 16 works
  9. 9 LublinPoland 14 works
  10. 10 ŁódźPoland 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PoznańPL · 24.0 works30×
  2. WarsawPL · 69.8 works28×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Engine and Fuel Emissions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Engine and Fuel Emissions?

Among universities, judged by research, Poznań University of Technology, Lublin University of Technology and Silesian University 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 13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lublin University of…Poznań University of…Warsaw University of…Silesian 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
1Poznań University of TechnologyPoland 58.421.9%110.1×12 -81.2%
2Lublin University of TechnologyPoland 48.524.1%129.8×9 -66.7%
3Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 41.310.2%77.0×14 -68.2%
4Warsaw University of TechnologyPoland 38.311.3%78.8×15 -66.9%
5Technical University of KošiceSlovakia 35.76.6%124.2×13 -38.5%
6Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 30.011.1%225.1×15 -59.7%
7University of ŽilinaSlovakia 21.55.8%100.7×8 -67.7%

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 Engine and Fuel Emissions, country by country

Is Engine and Fuel Emissions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 Engine and Fuel Emissions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0047% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Engine and Fuel Emissions0.0028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Engine and Fuel Emissions 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%Engine and Fuel Emissions11.1% 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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