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Industrial Engineering and Technologies

Industrial Engineering and Technologies is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 23k 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 intersection of digital economy, sustainable development, and technological innovation within the mineral resource sector. It covers topics such as energy efficiency, carbon sequestration, hydrogen initiatives, lithium-ion batteries, and renewable energy, with a specific emphasis on resource efficiency and circular economy principles.

  • Digital Economy
  • Sustainable Development
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Carbon Sequestration
  • Hydrogen Initiatives
  • Lithium-Ion Batteries
  • Renewable Energy
  • Resource Efficiency
  • Circular Economy
  • Technological Innovation
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Industrial Engineering and Technologies

Which countries lead Industrial Engineering and Technologies research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (2.9k and 631 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 2.9k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 631 works
  3. 3 China 341 works
  4. 4 Uzbekistan 280 works
  5. 5 United States 258 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 225 works
  7. 7 Belarus 86 works
  8. 8 Poland 82 works
  9. 9 Azerbaijan 80 works
  10. 10 India 49 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.

Russia: 58.9%Ukraine: 12.8%China: 6.9%Uzbekistan: 5.7%6 others listed: 15.8%59%largest
Russia2,904 · 58.9%Ukraine631 · 12.8%China341 · 6.9%Uzbekistan280 · 5.7%6 others listed779 · 15.8%

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

Which institutions lead Industrial Engineering and Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Industrial Engineering and Technologies research, followed by Moscow Power Engineering Institute and Saint Petersburg Mining University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 329 works
  2. 2 Moscow Power Engineering InstituteRussia 93 works
  3. 3 Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 92 works
  4. 4 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 83 works
  5. 5 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 76 works
  6. 6 Ufa State Petroleum Technological UniversityRussia 64 works
  7. 7 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 56 works
  8. 8 Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan 53 works
  9. 9 Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 48 works
  10. 10 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Industrial Engineering and Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Industrial Engineering and Technologies include Hao Chen.

  1. 1 Hao Chen China 118k 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 Engineering and Technologies?

The most cited paper in Industrial Engineering and Technologies is "Theory of Elasticity of an Anisotropic Elastic Body" (S.G. Lekhnitskii, P. Fern, Julius J. Brandstatter et al., 1964), with 1,482 citations. Next come "Finite Element Method Accuracy for Wave Propagation Problems" (1,457) and "Estimating the Voltage Stability of a Power System" (1,116).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Theory of Elasticity of an Anisotropic Elastic Body S.G. Lekhnitskii, P. Fern, Julius J. Brandstatter et al. · Physics Today 1964 1,482
2 Finite Element Method Accuracy for Wave Propagation Problems Roger L. Kuhlemeyer, John Lysmer · Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division May 1973 1,457
3 Estimating the Voltage Stability of a Power System P. Kessel, H. Glavitsch · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 1986 1,116
4 Digital Economy as a Factor in the Technological Development of the Mineral Sector Vladimir S. Litvinenko · Natural Resources Research Open access 23 Oct 2019 563
5 Theoretical studies on the gravity drainage of heavy oil during in‐situ steam heating R.M. Butler, G. S. McNab, Hing Y. Lo · The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Aug 1981 458
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Industrial Engineering and Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Industrial Engineering and Technologies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Magnitogorsk, Kremenchuk and Bryansk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 744 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 309 works
  3. 3 TashkentUzbekistan 176 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 164 works
  5. 5 NovosibirskRussia 121 works
  6. 6 IrkutskRussia 112 works
  7. 7 YekaterinburgRussia 104 works
  8. 8 Kazan’Russia 94 works
  9. 9 Rostov-on-DonRussia 92 works
  10. 10 KharkivUkraine 90 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MagnitogorskRU · 36.2 works203×
  2. KremenchukUA · 22.2 works194×
  3. BryanskRU · 21.7 works89×
  4. NavoiyUZ · 30.6 works88×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Industrial Engineering and Technologies than the world average.

See Industrial Engineering and Technologies on the map

Where is the best place to study Industrial Engineering and Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Tashkent State Transport University, Saint Petersburg Mining University and Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam Karimov 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 21.81%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Saint Petersburg Min…Navoi State Mining I…Tashkent State Trans…Tashkent State Techn…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 83.836.2%165.3×48 +120.2%
2Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 79.437.9%345.2×92 -45.1%
3Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan 77.130.0%144.6×52 +18.4%
4Navoi State Mining InstituteUzbekistan 75.636.3%348.3×29 +210.7%
5Dnipro University of TechnologyUkraine 56.819.1%147.7×38 -13.6%
6Satbayev UniversityKazakhstan 56.515.9%99.3×34 +1.6%
7M.Auezov South Kazakhstan State UniversityKazakhstan 55.918.1%86.2×16 +35.2%
8Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 53.514.9%61.8×22 -9.1%
9Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 51.93.6%140.4×44 +25.0%
10Moscow Power Engineering InstituteRussia 49.26.1%132.6×93 -24.6%

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 Engineering and Technologies, country by country

Is Industrial Engineering and Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Engineering and Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Industrial Engineering and Technologies0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Industrial Engineering and Technologies 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 Engineering and Technologies10.4% 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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