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Islanding Detection in Power Systems

Islanding Detection in Power Systems is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 development, evaluation, and comparison of islanding detection methods for distributed generations, particularly in the context of grid-connected inverters and microgrid protection. The research covers a wide range of techniques such as frequency drift methods, wavelet-based detection, active islanding detection, and anti-islanding schemes.

  • Islanding Detection
  • Distributed Generation
  • Anti-Islanding Schemes
  • Grid-Connected Inverters
  • Frequency Drift Method
  • Wavelet-Based Detection
  • Active Islanding Detection
  • Inverter-Based DGs
  • Power Quality Disturbance Detection
  • Microgrid Protection
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
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
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Islanding Detection in Power Systems

Which countries lead Islanding Detection in Power Systems research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.6k and 962 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 India 962 works
  3. 3 United States 402 works
  4. 4 Brazil 213 works
  5. 5 Iran 181 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 114 works
  7. 7 Australia 101 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 92 works
  9. 9 Germany 91 works
  10. 10 Egypt 87 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: 41.7%India: 25.0%United States: 10.5%Brazil: 5.5%6 others listed: 17.3%42%largest
China1,607 · 41.7%India962 · 25.0%United States402 · 10.5%Brazil213 · 5.5%6 others listed666 · 17.3%

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

Which institutions lead Islanding Detection in Power Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Islanding Detection in Power Systems research, followed by North China Electric Power University and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 98 works
  2. 2 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 71 works
  3. 3 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 62 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Electric (China)China 58 works
  5. 5 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 55 works
  6. 6 Shandong UniversityChina 54 works
  7. 7 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 51 works
  8. 8 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 47 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 44 works
  10. 10 Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Islanding Detection in Power Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Islanding Detection in Power Systems include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and Hua Zhang.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  4. 4 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  6. 6 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  7. 7 Bin Cao China 128k citations
  8. 8 Josep Maria Guerrero Denmark 123k citations
  9. 9 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  10. 10 A. S. Cerqueira France 116k 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 Islanding Detection in Power Systems?

The most cited paper in Islanding Detection in Power Systems is "Overview of Control and Grid Synchronization for Distributed Power Generation Systems" (Frede Blaabjerg, Remus Teodorescu, Marco Liserre et al., 2006), with 5,226 citations. Next come "Hierarchical Control of Droop-Controlled AC and DC Microgrids—A General Approach Toward Standardization" (5,048) and "Control of Power Converters in AC Microgrids" (3,717).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Overview of Control and Grid Synchronization for Distributed Power Generation Systems Frede Blaabjerg, Remus Teodorescu, Marco Liserre et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Oct 2006 5,226
2 Hierarchical Control of Droop-Controlled AC and DC Microgrids—A General Approach Toward Standardization Josep Maria Guerrero, Juan C. Vásquez, J. Matas et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 18 Aug 2010 5,048
3 Control of Power Converters in AC Microgrids Joan Rocabert, Álvaro Luna, Frede Blaabjerg et al. · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 24 May 2012 3,717
4 Synchronverters: Inverters That Mimic Synchronous Generators Qing‐Chang Zhong, George H. Weiss · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 10 May 2010 3,098
5 Trends in Microgrid Control Daniel E. Olivares, Ali Mehrizi‐Sani, Amir H. Etemadi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Open access 20 May 2014 3,081
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Where is Islanding Detection in Power Systems research done?

The largest centres of Islanding Detection in Power Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aalborg, Golden and Roorkee.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 260 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 131 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 116 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 99 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 93 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 89 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 77 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 68 works
  9. 9 JinanChina 66 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AalborgDK · 54.8 works18×
  2. GoldenUS · 20.5 works16×
  3. RoorkeeIN · 37.8 works15×
  4. Palo AltoUS · 27.1 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Islanding Detection in Power Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Islanding Detection in Power Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Aalborg University, Monash University and Xi'an Jiaotong 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.

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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
1Aalborg UniversityDenmark 61.225.2%20.7×55 -38.9%
2Monash UniversityAustralia 59.054.8%1.9×9 +220.4%
3Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 57.314.4%7.7×62 +47.6%
4Khalifa University of Science and TechnologyUnited Arab Emirates 55.028.7%12.2×14 +61.7%
5Shandong UniversityChina 53.410.0%8.9×54 +75.4%
6Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 52.815.4%5.5×47 +21.2%
7Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 50.810.8%18.1×38 +28.3%
8North China Electric Power UniversityChina 50.79.5%23.0×72 -1.7%
9KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 49.033.5%5.7×10 +131.3%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 48.29.0%3.5×44 +17.0%

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 Islanding Detection in Power Systems, country by country

Is Islanding Detection in Power Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Islanding Detection in Power 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 Islanding Detection in Power Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Islanding Detection in Power 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.

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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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