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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. 9.9% 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%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies

Which countries lead Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2k and 548 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2k works
  2. 2 India 548 works
  3. 3 United States 391 works
  4. 4 South Korea 223 works
  5. 5 Japan 179 works
  6. 6 Italy 130 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 128 works
  8. 8 France 105 works
  9. 9 Iran 100 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 92 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: 51.3%India: 14.1%United States: 10.0%South Korea: 5.7%6 others listed: 18.9%51%largest
China1,999 · 51.3%India548 · 14.1%United States391 · 10.0%South Korea223 · 5.7%6 others listed734 · 18.9%

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

Which institutions lead Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research, followed by Harbin Institute of Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 93 works
  2. 2 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 52 works
  3. 3 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 47 works
  4. 4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 45 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 42 works
  6. 6 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 41 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 36 works
  8. 8 Chongqing UniversityChina 34 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 31 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 30 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, Takashi Taniguchi and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  5. 5 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  6. 6 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  7. 7 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  8. 8 Zhanhu Guo United States 148k citations
  9. 9 Joseph Wang United States 141k 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 Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies?

The most cited paper in Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies is "Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays" (Zhong Lin Wang, Jinhui Song, 2006), with 7,914 citations. Next come "Flexible triboelectric generator" (6,723) and "Passive Dynamic Walking" (3,392).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays Zhong Lin Wang, Jinhui Song · Science 13 Apr 2006 7,914
2 Flexible triboelectric generator Feng Ru Fan, Zhong‐Qun Tian, Zhong Lin Wang · Nano Energy 20 Jan 2012 6,723
3 Passive Dynamic Walking Tad McGeer · The International Journal of Robotics Research Apr 1990 3,392
4 Energy harvesting vibration sources for microsystems applications Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Neil M. White · Measurement Science and Technology Open access 26 Oct 2006 3,006
5 A study of low level vibrations as a power source for wireless sensor nodes Shad Roundy, Paul Kenneth Wright, Jan M. Rabaey · Computer Communications 25 Mar 2003 2,816
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jinhua.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 284 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 166 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 154 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 96 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 88 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 85 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 80 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 77 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 72 works
  10. 10 ChongqingChina 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JinhuaCN · 21.4 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies than the world average.

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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 Hong Kong Polytechnic 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 22.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwestern Polytec…Shanghai UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…Southwest Jiaotong U…
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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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 79.826.2%8.9×45 +12.7%
2Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 73.116.8%12.0×41 +45.3%
3Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 71.021.9%5.5×21 +18.3%
4Shanghai UniversityChina 70.523.7%8.1×26 +64.4%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 69.829.8%2.5×18 +23.9%
6City University of Hong KongChina 68.221.4%6.8×17 +32.6%
7Guangxi UniversityChina 67.222.6%6.8×18 +228.1%
8Hunan UniversityChina 66.827.4%5.2×16 +244.8%
9Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 65.326.1%7.7×14 +31.4%
10Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 65.212.5%7.1×52 +16.2%

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 Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies, country by country

Is Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Innovative Energy Harvesting 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%Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies9.8% 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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