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Engineering Applied Research

Engineering Applied Research is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 39k 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 structural analysis, design optimization, and material properties in various engineering fields such as mechanical, marine, automotive, and aerospace. It includes topics like finite element method, fatigue analysis, numerical simulation, fluid dynamics, and failure analysis.

  • Structural Analysis
  • Design Optimization
  • Finite Element Method
  • Fatigue Analysis
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Numerical Simulation
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Material Properties
  • Failure Analysis
  • Product Development
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+46%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Engineering Applied Research

Which countries lead Engineering Applied Research research?

By volume, China and Japan publish the most (2.1k and 922 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 Japan 922 works
  3. 3 United States 492 works
  4. 4 South Korea 416 works
  5. 5 India 374 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 206 works
  7. 7 Germany 138 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 109 works
  9. 9 Italy 94 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 88 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: 42.8%Japan: 18.6%United States: 9.9%South Korea: 8.4%6 others listed: 20.3%43%largest
China2,127 · 42.8%Japan922 · 18.6%United States492 · 9.9%South Korea416 · 8.4%6 others listed1,008 · 20.3%

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

Which institutions lead Engineering Applied Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Engineering Applied Research research, followed by Xi'an Jiaotong University and Southwest Jiaotong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61 works
  2. 2 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 44 works
  3. 3 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 33 works
  4. 4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 31 works
  5. 5 Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (China)China 28 works
  6. 6 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 28 works
  7. 7 Beihang UniversityChina 28 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 28 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 27 works
  10. 10 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Engineering Applied Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Engineering Applied Research include Wei Huang, Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k 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 Engineering Applied Research?

The most cited paper in Engineering Applied Research is "An Asymptotic Equivalence of Choice of Model by Cross-Validation and Akaike's Criterion" (Marla Stone, 1977), with 1,320 citations. Next come "Random Data Analysis and Measurement Procedures" (1,233) and "Life of LED-Based White Light Sources" (693).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Asymptotic Equivalence of Choice of Model by Cross-Validation and Akaike's Criterion Marla Stone · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Sep 1977 1,320
2 Random Data Analysis and Measurement Procedures J S Bendat and A G Piersol · Measurement Science and Technology 20 Nov 2000 1,233
3 Life of LED-Based White Light Sources Nadarajah Narendran, Yimin Gu · Journal of Display Technology 24 Aug 2005 693
4 A diffraction beam field expressed as the superposition of Gaussian beams J. J. Wen, M. A. Breazeale · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America May 1988 641
5 Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics: Alternatives for PZT? Thomas R. Shrout, Shujun Zhang · Journal of Electroceramics Open access 29 Mar 2007 607
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Engineering Applied Research research done?

The largest centres of Engineering Applied Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kokubunji and Kitakyushu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 411 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 347 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 201 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 129 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 125 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 105 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 98 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 89 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 88 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 88 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KokubunjiJP · 23.7 works203×
  2. KitakyushuJP · 21.6 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Engineering Applied Research than the world average.

See Engineering Applied Research on the map

Where is the best place to study Engineering Applied Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest Jiaotong University, Delft University of Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong 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.

0%20%40%mean 21.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Delft University of …Dalian University of…Southwest Jiaotong U…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 70.121.5%8.3×33 +93.5%
2Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 66.531.1%2.8×10 +276.7%
3Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 63.414.1%4.8×44 +305.3%
4Dalian University of TechnologyChina 59.722.2%4.7×23 +165.7%
5Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 59.220.0%5.1×31 +333.1%
6Chongqing UniversityChina 57.823.9%4.0×23 +206.6%
7Inha UniversitySouth Korea 57.536.5%8.9×10 +54.5%
8Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 57.215.2%7.6×24 +102.5%
9Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 55.418.4%8.3×22 +81.7%
10Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 54.714.1%5.5×26 +185.3%

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 Engineering Applied Research, country by country

Is Engineering Applied Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Engineering Applied Research.

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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 Engineering Applied Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.042% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Engineering Applied Research0.028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Engineering Applied Research 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%Engineering Applied Research10.2% 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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