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Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics

Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 34k 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 dynamics, control, and applications of magnetic levitation systems, including maglev trains, bearingless motors, active magnetic bearings, spacecraft attitude control using control moment gyros, vibration analysis of rotor systems, and fault diagnosis in rotating machinery.

  • Magnetic Levitation
  • Control Systems
  • Active Magnetic Bearings
  • Rotor Dynamics
  • Nonlinear Control
  • Maglev Transportation
  • Vibration Analysis
  • Bearingless Motors
  • Spacecraft Attitude Control
  • Fault Diagnosis
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
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
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics

Which countries lead Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.2k and 406 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.2k works
  2. 2 India 406 works
  3. 3 United States 293 works
  4. 4 Japan 276 works
  5. 5 South Korea 211 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 155 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 152 works
  8. 8 Germany 137 works
  9. 9 Italy 117 works
  10. 10 Iran 113 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: 63.4%India: 8.0%United States: 5.8%Japan: 5.4%6 others listed: 17.4%63%largest
China3,218 · 63.4%India406 · 8.0%United States293 · 5.8%Japan276 · 5.4%6 others listed885 · 17.4%

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

Which institutions lead Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harbin Institute of Technology publishes the most Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics research, followed by Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Southwest Jiaotong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 124 works
  2. 2 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 118 works
  3. 3 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 105 works
  4. 4 Southeast UniversityChina 101 works
  5. 5 Jiangsu UniversityChina 96 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 93 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 84 works
  8. 8 Tongji UniversityChina 73 works
  9. 9 Beihang UniversityChina 73 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 64 works

Who are the leading researchers in Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics include Xiaogang Wang, Kai You Wang and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  5. 5 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  6. 6 Shi Xue Dou Australia 142k 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 Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics is "Electrical Machines and Drives for Electric, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Vehicles" (Z. Q. Zhu, David Howe, 2007), with 1,537 citations. Next come "Fractional-Slot Concentrated-Windings Synchronous Permanent Magnet Machines: Opportunities and Challenges" (1,374) and "A novel high-performance magnetic gear" (1,069).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electrical Machines and Drives for Electric, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Vehicles Z. Q. Zhu, David Howe · Proceedings of the IEEE Apr 2007 1,537
2 Fractional-Slot Concentrated-Windings Synchronous Permanent Magnet Machines: Opportunities and Challenges Ayman M. EL-Refaie · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 4 Sep 2009 1,374
3 A novel high-performance magnetic gear Kais Atallah, David Howe · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics Jul 2001 1,069
4 Active Control of Vibration Chris R. Fuller, S.J. Elliott, Philip A. Nelson et al. · Physics Today May 1997 1,023
5 High-Speed Electrical Machines: Technologies, Trends, and Developments David Gerada, Abdeslam Mebarki, Neil L. Brown et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Open access 22 Oct 2013 1,004
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Harbin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zhenjiang and Ganzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 507 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 321 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 230 works
  4. 4 HarbinChina 181 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 177 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 167 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 132 works
  8. 8 ShenyangChina 124 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 116 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 107 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZhenjiangCN · 100.8 works15×
  2. GanzhouCN · 28.2 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Northeastern University, Southwest Jiaotong University and Southeast 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 17.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeastern Univers…Jiangsu UniversitySouthwest Jiaotong U…Southeast University
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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
1Northeastern UniversityChina 77.236.2%7.7×38 +40.1%
2Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 70.817.5%24.7×105 +53.7%
3Southeast UniversityChina 70.412.9%12.4×101 +39.4%
4Jiangsu UniversityChina 68.018.6%22.0×96 +3.6%
5Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.716.1%8.5×84 +9.8%
6Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 65.613.5%13.7×124 +8.1%
7Tongji UniversityChina 65.214.8%8.7×74 +19.9%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 65.115.2%6.4×30 +9.4%
9Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 61.512.9%24.2×118 -4.2%
10Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 60.716.7%9.1×57 +65.9%

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 Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics, country by country

Is Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics.

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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 Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics 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%Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics9.8% 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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