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Extenics and Innovation Methods

Extenics and Innovation Methods is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 4.8k research works in it since 1984. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of extension theory in various engineering fields, innovation models, decision support systems, risk evaluation, manufacturing technology, knowledge management, and service design. The papers cover topics such as fuzzy sets, collaborative innovation, intelligent knowledge management, urban development, and sustainable manufacturing.

  • Extension Theory
  • Innovation
  • Engineering
  • Fuzzy Sets
  • Decision Support System
  • Risk Evaluation
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • Knowledge Management
  • Service Design
  • Urban Development
Research works
4.8k
fractional, since 1984
In the world top 10%
475
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
86% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Extenics and Innovation Methods research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (109 and 5 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 109 works
  2. 2 India 5 works
  3. 3 United States 2 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 2 works
  5. 5 Vietnam 2 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 2 works
  7. 7 Oman 2 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 1 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 1 works
  10. 10 Russia 1 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: 86.3%India: 3.7%United States: 1.9%United Kingdom: 1.6%6 others listed: 6.5%86%largest
China109 · 86.3%India5 · 3.7%United States2 · 1.9%United Kingdom2 · 1.6%6 others listed8 · 6.5%

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

Which institutions lead Extenics and Innovation Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, Guangdong University of Technology publishes the most Extenics and Innovation Methods research, followed by Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Xinjiang University.

Who are the leading researchers in Extenics and Innovation Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Extenics and Innovation Methods include Yan Zhao and Witold Pedrycz.

  1. 1 Yan Zhao China 95k citations
  2. 2 Witold Pedrycz Canada 95k 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 Extenics and Innovation Methods?

The most cited paper in Extenics and Innovation Methods is "Quality function deployment: A literature review" (Lai-Kow Chan, Ming‐Lu Wu, 2002), with 1,087 citations. Next come "Discrete grey forecasting model and its optimization" (511) and "Approaches to knowledge reduction based on variable precision rough set model" (376).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Quality function deployment: A literature review Lai-Kow Chan, Ming‐Lu Wu · European Journal of Operational Research 7 Oct 2002 1,087
2 Discrete grey forecasting model and its optimization Naiming Xie, Sifeng Liu · Applied Mathematical Modelling Open access 28 Jan 2008 511
3 Approaches to knowledge reduction based on variable precision rough set model Jinhua Mi · Information Sciences 12 Sep 2003 376
4 Incomplete Multigranulation Rough Set Yuhua Qian, Jiye Liang, Chuangyin Dang · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics - Part A Systems and Humans 16 Dec 2009 344
5 THE INFORMATION ENTROPY, ROUGH ENTROPY AND KNOWLEDGE GRANULATION IN ROUGH SET THEORY Jiye Liang, Zhongzhi Shi · International Journal of Uncertainty Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems Feb 2004 344
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Where is Extenics and Innovation Methods research done?

The largest centres of Extenics and Innovation Methods research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 17 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 10 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 7 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 6 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 6 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 6 works
  7. 7 JinanChina 4 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 3 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 3 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 3 works
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Is Extenics and Innovation Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Extenics and Innovation Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00059% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Extenics and Innovation Methods 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%Extenics and Innovation Methods9.3% in 202520102020

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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