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Industrial Automation and Control Systems

Industrial Automation and Control Systems is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 diverse applications of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) in industrial automation, including SCADA systems, wireless communication, machine vision for waste recycling, and remote monitoring and control. It also explores the use of OPC technology for real-time data exchange and the implementation of automation in various manufacturing processes.

  • Programmable Logic Controllers
  • SCADA
  • Automation
  • OPC Technology
  • Industrial Control
  • Monitoring System
  • Wireless Communication
  • Machine Vision
  • Remote Control
  • Waste Recycling
Research works
20k
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
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Industrial Automation and Control Systems

Which countries lead Industrial Automation and Control Systems research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (1.2k and 556 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 556 works
  3. 3 India 517 works
  4. 4 United States 201 works
  5. 5 ?? 146 works
  6. 6 Russia 67 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 61 works
  8. 8 Germany 60 works
  9. 9 Brazil 55 works
  10. 10 Mexico 48 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.

Indonesia: 40.5%China: 19.3%India: 18.0%United States: 7.0%6 others listed: 15.2%40%largest
Indonesia1,164 · 40.5%China556 · 19.3%India517 · 18.0%United States201 · 7.0%6 others listed436 · 15.2%

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

Which institutions lead Industrial Automation and Control Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, State University of Malang publishes the most Industrial Automation and Control Systems research, followed by University of Singaperbangsa Karawang and Bandung Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State University of MalangIndonesia 47 works
  2. 2 University of Singaperbangsa KarawangIndonesia 33 works
  3. 3 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 32 works
  4. 4 State University of PadangIndonesia 32 works
  5. 5 Jakarta State PolytechnicIndonesia 29 works
  6. 6 Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa UniversityIndonesia 23 works
  7. 7 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 22 works
  8. 8 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 20 works
  9. 9 Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia 20 works
  10. 10 Politeknik Energi dan Mineral Akamigas 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Industrial Automation and Control Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Industrial Automation and Control Systems include Guoqing Hu.

  1. 1 Guoqing Hu China 129k 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 Industrial Automation and Control Systems?

The most cited paper in Industrial Automation and Control Systems is "Computer controlled systems theory and design" (C. Richard Johnson, 1986), with 3,014 citations. Next come "Modern Control Systems" (1,046) and "An Introduction to Input/Output Automata" (1,020).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Computer controlled systems theory and design C. Richard Johnson · Automatica Mar 1986 3,014
2 Modern Control Systems Richard C. Dorf, Naresh K. Sinha · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Aug 1981 1,046
3 An Introduction to Input/Output Automata Nancy Ann Lynch, Mark R. Tuttle · Formal Aspects of Computing Open access 27 Jan 2026 1,020
4 Automatic control systems C.F. Beards · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1995 763
5 A zigbee-based home automation system Khusvinder Gill, Shuang‐Hua Yang, Fang Qin Yao et al. · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Open access May 2009 615
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Industrial Automation and Control Systems research done?

The largest centres of Industrial Automation and Control Systems research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Karawang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 115 works
  2. 2 SurabayaIndonesia 102 works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 88 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 87 works
  5. 5 MalangIndonesia 72 works
  6. 6 MedanIndonesia 59 works
  7. 7 SemarangIndonesia 55 works
  8. 8 PadangIndonesia 52 works
  9. 9 YogyakartaIndonesia 48 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KarawangID · 33.3 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Industrial Automation and Control Systems than the world average.

See Industrial Automation and Control Systems on the map

Where is the best place to study Industrial Automation and Control Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, State University of Malang and Tribhuvan 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 10.86%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Amrita Vishwa Vidyap…Tribhuvan UniversityState University of …University of Singap…
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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
1Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 68.828.0%7.1×12 +26.4%
2State University of MalangIndonesia 56.02.4%15.2×47 +32.1%
3Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 48.810.5%6.2×15 +31.9%
4University of Singaperbangsa KarawangIndonesia 48.21.5%25.5×33 +218.7%
5State University of PadangIndonesia 47.83.3%9.1×32 +12.7%
6Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia 47.29.1%15.0×20 +7.8%
7Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 46.33.8%15.0×32 -14.5%
8Siddhartha Medical CollegeIndia 43.615.0%17.2×9 +425.9%
9Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 42.224.3%2.9×9 -12.3%
10Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPEEcuador 42.010.7%44.6×10 +4.7%

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 Industrial Automation and Control Systems, country by country

Is Industrial Automation and Control Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Industrial Automation 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 Industrial Automation and Control Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Industrial Automation and Control Systems0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Industrial Automation 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%Industrial Automation and Control Systems10.1% 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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