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High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems

High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the research, development, and application of Ultra High Voltage (UHV) transmission technology in China. It covers topics such as UHVDC and UHVAC transmission, reactive power optimization, series compensation, smart grid development, transformer technology, and nanoparticle applications in power systems. The research is aimed at addressing the challenges and prospects of implementing UHV transmission for building a stronger and smarter power grid in China.

  • UHV Transmission
  • Power System Technology
  • HVDC Transmission
  • Reactive Power Optimization
  • Series Compensation
  • Electrochemical Electrode
  • Grid Integrated Control
  • Transformer Technology
  • Smart Grid Development
  • Nanoparticle Applications
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
79% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems

Which countries lead High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems research?

By volume, China and ?? publish the most (2.7k and 167 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.7k works
  2. 2 ?? 167 works
  3. 3 United States 154 works
  4. 4 India 153 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 50 works
  6. 6 Germany 47 works
  7. 7 South Korea 45 works
  8. 8 Iran 44 works
  9. 9 Japan 39 works
  10. 10 Canada 31 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: 78.5%??: 4.9%United States: 4.5%India: 4.5%6 others listed: 7.5%79%largest
China2,666 · 78.5%??167 · 4.9%United States154 · 4.5%India153 · 4.5%6 others listed255 · 7.5%

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

Which institutions lead High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems research, followed by North China Electric Power University and China Southern Power Grid (China).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 308 works
  2. 2 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 229 works
  3. 3 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 204 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Electric (China)China 111 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 101 works
  6. 6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 75 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 55 works
  8. 8 Wuhan UniversityChina 53 works
  9. 9 Shandong UniversityChina 52 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 51 works

Who are the leading researchers in High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  6. 6 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  8. 8 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  9. 9 Shi Xue Dou Australia 142k 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 High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems?

The most cited paper in High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems is "Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems." (Donald H. Trahan, William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima, 1979), with 2,257 citations. Next come "Operation, Control, and Applications of the Modular Multilevel Converter: A Review" (2,216) and "VSC-Based HVDC Power Transmission Systems: An Overview" (2,201).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems. Donald H. Trahan, William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima · American Mathematical Monthly Aug 1979 2,257
2 Operation, Control, and Applications of the Modular Multilevel Converter: A Review Suman Debnath, Jiangchao Qin, Behrooz Bahrani et al. · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 5 Mar 2014 2,216
3 VSC-Based HVDC Power Transmission Systems: An Overview Nikolas Flourentzou, Vassilios Georgios Agelidis, Georgios D. Demetriades · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 9 Feb 2009 2,201
4 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
5 A compensation-based power flow method for weakly meshed distribution and transmission networks Dariush Shirmohammadi, Hong Hu, Adam Semlyen et al. · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems May 1988 1,186
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Where is High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems research done?

The largest centres of High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (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 Beijing, Palo Alto and Jilin City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 653 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 261 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 185 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 170 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 154 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 128 works
  7. 7 Beijing 121 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 95 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 76 works
  10. 10 JinanChina 74 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Beijing120.8 works83×
  2. Palo AltoUS · 49.4 works39×
  3. Jilin CityCN · 27.5 works23×
  4. HohhotCN · 53.6 works18×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Aalborg University, North China Electric Power University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology 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 17.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Aalborg UniversitySouth China Universi…Huazhong 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
1Aalborg UniversityDenmark 64.137.3%9.0×16 -19.2%
2North China Electric Power UniversityChina 55.98.0%105.8×229 +5.0%
3Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 54.819.4%12.8×75 -2.6%
4South China University of TechnologyChina 52.720.5%9.9×35 +33.1%
5Southeast UniversityChina 50.617.6%8.4×40 +14.8%
6Hunan UniversityChina 49.018.3%12.1×28 +41.8%
7Chongqing UniversityChina 48.813.5%12.4×44 +10.2%
8Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 48.012.4%17.8×101 -17.7%
9Wuhan UniversityChina 47.810.0%11.5×53 +26.4%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 47.717.4%7.4×55 -8.2%

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 High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems, country by country

Is High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are High-Voltage Power Transmission 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 High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of High-Voltage Power Transmission 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%High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems9.6% 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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