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% the tick is no change
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 China 1.6k works
- 2 India 448 works
- 3 United States 334 works
- 4 South Korea 190 works
- 5 Japan 163 works
- 6 Italy 119 works
- 7 United Kingdom 108 works
- 8 France 98 works
- 9 Iran 84 works
- 10 Malaysia 84 works
How concentrated that is
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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.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 45 works
- 2 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 40 works
- 3 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 37 works
- 4 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 36 works
- 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 31 works
- 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 31 works
- 7 Chongqing UniversityChina 29 works
- 8 Xidian UniversityChina 25 works
- 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 24 works
- 10 Southeast UniversityChina 24 works
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 Zhong Lin Wang United States 11k citations
- 2 Luca Benini Italy 4.6k citations
- 3 Bhim Singh India 3.3k citations
- 4 Ke Wu Canada 3.2k citations
- 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).
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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina | 77.4 | 36.9% | 8.2× | 40 | +881.8% |
| 2 | Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina | 76.4 | 28.9% | 11.1× | 36 | +1668.3% |
| 3 | Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea | 66.9 | 35.1% | 8.7× | 13 | +403.3% |
| 4 | Shanghai UniversityChina | 66.1 | 33.9% | 7.3× | 23 | +193.2% |
| 5 | Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina | 61.0 | 32.4% | 15.8× | 19 | +26.2% |
| 6 | Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina | 59.0 | 22.9% | 6.4× | 45 | +116.2% |
| 7 | Xidian UniversityChina | 58.3 | 17.3% | 7.9× | 25 | +304.1% |
| 8 | Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina | 58.2 | 20.6% | 5.5× | 37 | +242.1% |
| 9 | University of MacauMacau | 56.4 | 11.3% | 8.7× | 12 | +315.7% |
| 10 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 55.1 | 34.5% | 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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Which topics inside it are moving
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