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Frequency Control in Power Systems

Frequency Control in Power Systems is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1954. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on Load Frequency Control (LFC) in power systems, particularly in the context of integrating renewable energy sources and operating in deregulated environments. It covers topics such as automatic generation control, intelligent and decentralized control strategies, optimization techniques, and the impact of energy storage on frequency regulation.

  • Load Frequency Control
  • Automatic Generation Control
  • Renewable Energy
  • Power System
  • Frequency Regulation
  • Intelligent Control
  • Decentralized Control
  • Optimization
  • Deregulated Environment
  • Energy Storage
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Frequency Control in Power Systems

Which countries lead Frequency Control in Power Systems research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.5k and 776 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 776 works
  3. 3 United States 175 works
  4. 4 Iran 104 works
  5. 5 Egypt 104 works
  6. 6 Saudi Arabia 85 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 69 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 66 works
  9. 9 ?? 58 works
  10. 10 Algeria 57 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: 49.3%India: 26.4%United States: 6.0%Iran: 3.5%6 others listed: 14.9%49%largest
China1,451 · 49.3%India776 · 26.4%United States175 · 6.0%Iran104 · 3.5%6 others listed437 · 14.9%

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

Which institutions lead Frequency Control in Power Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, North China Electric Power University publishes the most Frequency Control in Power Systems research, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (China) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 74 works
  2. 2 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 52 works
  3. 3 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 39 works
  4. 4 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 38 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 34 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 32 works
  7. 7 National Institute of Technology PatnaIndia 31 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 30 works
  9. 9 Northeastern UniversityChina 30 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Frequency Control in Power Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Frequency Control in Power Systems include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and Seyedali Mirjalili.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  4. 4 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  5. 5 Shi Xue Dou Australia 142k citations
  6. 6 Y. Makida Japan 141k citations
  7. 7 Tasawar Hayat Pakistan 135k citations
  8. 8 Josep Maria Guerrero Denmark 123k citations
  9. 9 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  10. 10 D. I. Jones United Kingdom 117k 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 Frequency Control in Power Systems?

The most cited paper in Frequency Control in Power Systems is "Remote sensing and image interpretation" (Elizabeth A. Cook, 1995), with 3,330 citations. Next come "Online actor–critic algorithm to solve the continuous-time infinite horizon optimal control problem" (1,703) and "A review of energy storage technologies for wind power applications" (1,545).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Remote sensing and image interpretation Elizabeth A. Cook · Preventive Veterinary Medicine May 1995 3,330
2 Online actor–critic algorithm to solve the continuous-time infinite horizon optimal control problem Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Frank L. Lewis · Automatica 18 Mar 2010 1,703
3 A review of energy storage technologies for wind power applications Francisco Díaz‐González, Andreas Sumper, Oriol Gomis‐Bellmunt et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 18 Feb 2012 1,545
4 String stability of interconnected systems D. Swaroop, J. Karl Hedrick · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Mar 1996 1,237
5 Dynamic Performance of a Modular Multilevel Back-to-Back HVDC System Maryam Saeedifard, Reza Iravani · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 8 Sep 2010 1,187
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Where is Frequency Control in Power Systems research done?

The largest centres of Frequency Control in Power Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Silchar, Patna and Dhahran.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 251 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 115 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 102 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 96 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 80 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 74 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 61 works
  8. 8 BhubaneswarIndia 57 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 45 works
  10. 10 ShenyangChina 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SilcharIN · 26.1 works29×
  2. PatnaIN · 35.8 works23×
  3. DhahranSA · 30.6 works17×
  4. BhubaneswarIN · 57.0 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Frequency Control in Power Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Frequency Control in Power Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, National Institute of Technology Patna, Northeastern University and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 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 20.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National Institute o…Northeastern Univers…King Fahd University…North China Electric…
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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
1National Institute of Technology PatnaIndia 70.822.8%65.6×31 +95.4%
2Northeastern UniversityChina 69.520.5%10.2×30 +55.9%
3King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 66.417.2%25.2×28 +244.4%
4North China Electric Power UniversityChina 63.79.8%33.6×74 +63.2%
5King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 60.828.6%4.6×8 +142.4%
6Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.715.2%6.5×39 +26.5%
7Aswan UniversityEgypt 59.521.2%56.8×16 -0.2%
8Khalifa University of Science and TechnologyUnited Arab Emirates 59.019.9%12.4×10 +265.9%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 58.816.9%4.3×32 +65.4%
10Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 58.628.7%3.9×10 -12.4%

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 Frequency Control in Power Systems, country by country

Is Frequency Control in Power Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Frequency Control in Power 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 Frequency Control in Power Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Frequency Control in Power 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.

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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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