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Fault Detection and Control Systems

Fault Detection and Control Systems is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 85k 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 application of various data-driven and statistical techniques for process fault detection and diagnosis in industrial settings. It covers topics such as process monitoring, fault isolation, soft sensors, model-based diagnosis, and the use of machine learning in analyzing and improving industrial processes.

  • Process Monitoring
  • Fault Detection
  • Data-Driven Techniques
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Soft Sensors
  • Model-Based Diagnosis
  • Industrial Processes
  • Multivariate Statistical Methods
  • Fault Isolation
  • Machine Learning
Research works
85k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+51%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fault Detection and Control Systems

Which countries lead Fault Detection and Control Systems research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (8.9k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 8.9k works
  2. 2 United States 2k works
  3. 3 India 1.1k works
  4. 4 Germany 716 works
  5. 5 France 529 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 494 works
  7. 7 Italy 451 works
  8. 8 South Korea 395 works
  9. 9 Canada 378 works
  10. 10 Japan 343 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: 58.2%United States: 12.8%India: 7.3%Germany: 4.7%6 others listed: 17.0%58%largest
China8,892 · 58.2%United States1,963 · 12.8%India1,119 · 7.3%Germany716 · 4.7%6 others listed2,591 · 17.0%

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

Which institutions lead Fault Detection and Control Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Northeastern University publishes the most Fault Detection and Control Systems research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Northeastern UniversityChina 197 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 181 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 165 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 165 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 165 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 165 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 162 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 160 works
  9. 9 Beihang UniversityChina 158 works
  10. 10 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 150 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fault Detection and Control Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fault Detection and Control Systems include Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Robert John Tibshirani.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Geoffrey E. Hinton Canada 454k citations
  3. 3 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  4. 4 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  8. 8 Gordon K. Smyth Australia 237k 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 Fault Detection and Control Systems?

The most cited paper in Fault Detection and Control Systems is "A new look at the statistical model identification" (Hirotugu Akaike, 1974), with 51,685 citations. Next come "Investigating Causal Relations by Econometric Models and Cross-spectral Methods" (23,275) and "Fuzzy identification of systems and its applications to modeling and control" (19,579).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A new look at the statistical model identification Hirotugu Akaike · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Open access Dec 1974 51,685
2 Investigating Causal Relations by Econometric Models and Cross-spectral Methods Clive W. J. Granger · Econometrica Aug 1969 23,275
3 Fuzzy identification of systems and its applications to modeling and control Tomohiro Takagi, Michio Sugeno · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics 1985 19,579
4 ANFIS: adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system Jyh‐Shing Roger Jang · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics 1993 16,328
5 Approximation by superpositions of a sigmoidal function George V. Cybenko · Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems Open access Dec 1989 14,001
All 96 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fault Detection and Control Systems research done?

The largest centres of Fault Detection and Control Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shenyang, Hangzhou and Gabès.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.6k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 672 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 584 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 482 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 349 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 347 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 340 works
  8. 8 ShenyangChina 314 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 280 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 247 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Shenyang21.6 works29×
  2. Hangzhou62.3 works23×
  3. GabèsTN · 31.0 works21×
  4. Idaho FallsUS · 27.2 works12×
  5. AnshanCN · 31.8 works10×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fault Detection and Control Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fault Detection and Control Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northeastern University and Chongqing University score highest, combining citation 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 20.27%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chongqing UniversityXi'an Jiaotong Unive…Zhejiang UniversityNortheastern Univers…
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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.

Citation 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
1Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 78.422.6%5.5×165 +84.7%
2Northeastern UniversityChina 76.117.8%12.9×197 +52.1%
3Chongqing UniversityChina 75.224.2%5.7×105 +118.4%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 73.119.2%3.5×160 +38.7%
5City University of Hong KongChina 73.116.0%4.0×39 +91.9%
6Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 70.426.8%1.7×25 +361.1%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 69.914.0%5.9×165 +37.2%
8Central South UniversityChina 69.817.0%3.8×123 +75.8%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 69.316.6%4.2×165 +96.3%
10Hubei University of TechnologyChina 69.328.5%6.1×25 +314.8%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Fault Detection and Control Systems, country by country

Is Fault Detection and Control Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Fault Detection and Control Systems.

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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 Fault Detection and Control Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.11% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Fault Detection and Control Systems0.098% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fault Detection and Control Systems 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%Fault Detection and Control Systems9.8% 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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