Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability

Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 materials engineering in industrial applications, particularly in the fields of corrosion, steel strength, pipeline durability, deformation processes, and industrial safety. It addresses issues such as fatigue, electrochemical parameters, friction welding, and heat resistance in various mechanical components and equipment used in oil and gas, power generation, and other industrial sectors.

Corrosion
Steel
Pipeline
Deformation
Industrial Safety
Fatigue
Electrochemical Parameters
Friction Welding
Heat Resistance
Machine Mechanics

Research works: 27k
In the world top 10%: 2.7k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -1%
Largest producer: China

Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability

Which countries lead Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (2.2k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 2.2k works
2 Russia 2k works
3 Ukraine 529 works
4 United States 328 works
5 India 207 works
6 Uzbekistan 113 works
7 Indonesia 110 works
8 Poland 100 works
9 Kazakhstan 95 works
10 Azerbaijan 90 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.

China2,152 · 37.7%Russia1,989 · 34.8%Ukraine529 · 9.3%United States328 · 5.7%6 others listed714 · 12.5%

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

Which institutions lead Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ufa State Petroleum Technological University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 176 works
2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 82 works
3 Ufa State Petroleum Technological UniversityRussia 67 works
4 Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry UniversityAzerbaijan 53 works
5 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 47 works
6 Moscow Power Engineering InstituteRussia 45 works
7 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 43 works
8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 40 works
9 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 37 works
10 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability include Cyrus Cooper, Xiaogang Wang and Kai You Wang.

1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
4 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 Diagnostics and Reliability?

The most cited paper in Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability is "A review on machinery diagnostics and prognostics implementing condition-based maintenance" (Andrew K. S. Jardine, Daming Lin, Dragan Banjević, 2005), with 4,775 citations. Next come "Machinery health prognostics: A systematic review from data acquisition to RUL prediction" (2,574) and "Artificial intelligence for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery: A review" (2,179).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	A review on machinery diagnostics and prognostics implementing condition-based maintenance Andrew K. S. Jardine, Daming Lin, Dragan Banjević · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	4 Nov 2005	4,775
2	Machinery health prognostics: A systematic review from data acquisition to RUL prediction Yaguo Lei, Naipeng Li, Liang Guo et al. · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing Review	Dec 2017	2,574
3	Artificial intelligence for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery: A review Ruonan Liu, Boyuan Yang, Enrico Zio et al. · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	15 Feb 2018	2,179
4	A review on empirical mode decomposition in fault diagnosis of rotating machinery Yaguo Lei, Jing Lin, Zhengjia He et al. · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing	18 Oct 2012	1,882
5	Principal components analysis (PCA) Andrzej Adam Mackiewicz, Waldemar Ratajczak · Computers & Geosciences	Mar 1993	1,769

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Where is Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research done?

The largest centres of Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Komsomol'skiy, Astrakhan and Ufa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 MoscowRussia 586 works
2 BeijingChina 366 works
3 Saint PetersburgRussia 216 works
4 KyivUkraine 157 works
5 Xi'anChina 150 works
6 ShanghaiChina 147 works
7 WuhanChina 116 works
8 NanjingChina 99 works
9 UfaRussia 93 works
10 KharkivUkraine 91 works

Where it is the local speciality

Komsomol'skiyRU · 23.6 works57×
AstrakhanRU · 25.3 works49×
UfaRU · 93.1 works37×
OmskRU · 34.9 works30×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability?

Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Yanshan University and Chongqing 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina	71.1	33.4%	3.8×	40	+32.7%
2	Yanshan UniversityChina	70.4	54.8%	7.3×	15	+113.3%
3	Chongqing UniversityChina	65.1	39.3%	3.9×	25	+49.5%
4	Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina	63.4	32.6%	4.6×	31	+116.2%
5	Lanzhou University of TechnologyChina	62.3	40.3%	9.7×	19	+241.6%
6	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina	62.0	37.9%	2.4×	26	+34.5%
7	Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina	60.7	33.8%	4.7×	22	+79.1%
8	Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina	59.9	33.7%	7.3×	19	+26.9%
9	Hunan UniversityChina	58.7	35.6%	3.1×	13	+120.5%
10	Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina	57.9	31.5%	2.5×	25	+82.1%
11	Northeastern UniversityChina	57.9	28.8%	4.6×	24	+95.9%
12	Beijing University of TechnologyChina	56.7	43.2%	3.5×	15	+142.1%
13	Southeast UniversityChina	55.1	30.4%	1.7×	15	+30.4%
14	Wuhan University of TechnologyChina	55.0	21.6%	6.0×	29	+124.7%
15	China University of Mining and TechnologyChina	54.8	36.8%	3.0×	14	+82.4%
16	Harbin Engineering UniversityChina	54.6	23.0%	7.7×	24	+223.4%
17	Beihang UniversityChina	54.0	22.0%	4.0×	26	+95.4%
18	University of Science and Technology BeijingChina	53.9	43.7%	2.5×	11	+152.7%
19	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	53.8	33.2%	1.2×	20	+30.5%
20	Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry UniversityAzerbaijan	53.3	4.8%	124.5×	53	+110.4%
21	Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina	52.6	25.3%	5.3×	19	+84.6%
22	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina	50.8	22.5%	4.3×	23	-3.8%
23	China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina	50.3	24.1%	4.8×	13	+117.0%
24	Soochow UniversityChina	50.1	34.9%	1.9×	11	+60.4%
25	Anhui University of TechnologyChina	49.6	32.8%	7.5×	8	+135.6%
26	Dalian University of TechnologyChina	49.1	28.9%	3.1×	17	+88.3%
27	Shijiazhuang Tiedao UniversityChina	48.8	37.4%	14.4×	8	+139.7%
28	Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina	48.6	20.4%	12.9×	19	+195.7%
29	Shenyang Aerospace UniversityChina	48.0	20.8%	19.4×	16	+173.3%
30	Tsinghua UniversityChina	47.7	23.0%	1.5×	21	+157.6%
31	Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina	46.8	11.2%	12.5×	24	+354.8%
32	South China University of TechnologyChina	46.2	27.0%	2.2×	14	+167.5%
33	North China Electric Power UniversityChina	45.6	12.4%	5.6×	22	+38.3%
34	Zhejiang UniversityChina	45.2	21.1%	1.2×	19	+149.9%
35	Tongji UniversityChina	44.5	25.5%	1.3×	12	+48.6%
36	AGH University of KrakowPoland	44.0	19.3%	7.0×	16	-18.3%
37	Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina	43.7	20.2%	4.3×	12	+24.6%
38	Ufa State Petroleum Technological UniversityRussia	43.5	1.5%	164.3×	67	-63.0%
39	Wuhan University of Science and TechnologyChina	43.2	20.4%	6.6×	13	+231.4%
40	Weatherford CollegeUnited States	41.9	9.4%	5.4×	43	-31.8%
41	Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyPoland	41.0	21.3%	8.6×	8	+3.4%
42	Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan	40.5	6.4%	56.6×	20	+196.6%
43	Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan	40.2	8.5%	38.8×	18	+10.9%
44	Naval University of EngineeringChina	39.6	13.5%	19.6×	18	+41.0%
45	Moscow State Agroengineering University named after V.P. GoryachkinRussia	39.3	7.7%	51.1×	15	+70.4%
46	Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia	38.5	2.6%	42.7×	47	-59.8%
47	National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine	38.1	4.2%	25.6×	35	-13.5%
48	Moscow Power Engineering InstituteRussia	38.0	1.1%	51.0×	45	-29.7%
49	Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia	37.5	1.4%	26.6×	33	-57.8%
50	Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia	35.9	2.4%	40.3×	37	-39.9%
51	Ural Federal UniversityRussia	35.0	0.8%	17.5×	30	-44.9%
52	Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia	34.1	0.8%	43.0×	35	-43.6%
53	South Ural State UniversityRussia	31.4	1.8%	28.9×	20	-50.8%
54	Abylkas Saginov Karaganda Technical UniversityKazakhstan	31.3	0.7%	60.4×	10	+46.5%
55	Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan	24.8	0.0%	21.1×	9	-9.3%
56	University of BelgradeSerbia	21.4	5.9%	2.2×	9	-13.9%
57	Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia	17.3	2.3%	1.9×	10	-29.3%
58	Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia	16.3	5.9%	4.4×	8	-33.4%

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 Diagnostics and Reliability, country by country

Is Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Diagnostics and Reliability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

Fractional works of Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability 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.

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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Which countries lead Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability?

What are the most cited papers in Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability?

Where is Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability?

Is Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

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