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Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies

Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1951. 20.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the research and development of vibration energy harvesting technologies, particularly using piezoelectric materials, for powering microsystems and wireless sensor nodes. It covers various aspects such as energy scavenging, nonlinear energy harvesting, MEMS devices, and broadband vibration energy harvesting.

  • Piezoelectric Materials
  • Wireless Sensor Nodes
  • Energy Scavenging
  • Microsystems
  • Vibration-Based Generators
  • Nonlinear Energy Harvesting
  • MEMS Devices
  • Power Harvesting
  • Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting
  • Energy Conversion
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
20.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+36%
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Which countries lead Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.6k and 448 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 India 448 works
  3. 3 United States 334 works
  4. 4 South Korea 190 works
  5. 5 Japan 163 works
  6. 6 Italy 119 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 108 works
  8. 8 France 98 works
  9. 9 Iran 84 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 84 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: 49.5%India: 13.9%United States: 10.4%South Korea: 5.9%6 others listed: 20.3%50%largest
China1,595 · 49.5%India448 · 13.9%United States334 · 10.4%South Korea190 · 5.9%6 others listed655 · 20.3%

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

Which institutions lead Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Harbin Institute of Technology publishes the most Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research, followed by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Who are the leading researchers in Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Luca Benini and Bhim Singh.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 11k citations
  2. 2 Luca Benini Italy 4.6k citations
  3. 3 Bhim Singh India 3.3k citations
  4. 4 Ke Wu Canada 3.2k citations
  5. 5 Anantha P. Chandrakasan United States 2.9k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 239 works
  2. 2 Xi'an China 139 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 129 works
  4. 4 Seoul South Korea 84 works
  5. 5 Nanjing China 74 works
  6. 6 Chengdu China 72 works
  7. 7 Wuhan China 66 works
  8. 8 Hangzhou China 64 works
  9. 9 Harbin China 60 works
  10. 10 Chongqing China 56 works
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Where is the best place to study Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Southwest Jiaotong University and Kyung Hee 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%20%40%mean 27.38%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Northwestern Polytechnical University: 40, 36.9%Southwest Jiaotong University: 36, 28.9%Kyung Hee University: 13, 35.1%Shanghai University: 23, 33.9%Zhejiang Normal University: 19, 32.4%Harbin Institute of Technology: 45, 22.9%Xidian University: 25, 17.3%Xi'an Jiaotong University: 37, 20.6%University of Macau: 12, 11.3%Hong Kong Polytechnic University: 19, 34.5%Northwestern Polytec…Kyung Hee UniversityShanghai UniversitySouthwest Jiaotong U…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 77.436.9%8.2×40 +881.8%
2 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 76.428.9%11.1×36 +1668.3%
3 Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 66.935.1%8.7×13 +403.3%
4 Shanghai UniversityChina 66.133.9%7.3×23 +193.2%
5 Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina 61.032.4%15.8×19 +26.2%
6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 59.022.9%6.4×45 +116.2%
7 Xidian UniversityChina 58.317.3%7.9×25 +304.1%
8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 58.220.6%5.5×37 +242.1%
9 University of MacauMacau 56.411.3%8.7×12 +315.7%
10 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 55.134.5%5.0×19 +48.1%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 36% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies.

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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.

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.