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Mechanical Systems and Engineering

Mechanical Systems and Engineering is a research topic within Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Science Explorer counts 6.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the interrelationship between renewable energy and agricultural economics, focusing on topics such as soil treatment, tillage effects, carbon nanotube composites, control systems, grain extraction, environmental safety, wood-polymeric materials, and vibration mechanochemical coating. The research covers a wide range of technological and environmental aspects related to the intersection of renewable energy and agricultural practices.

  • Renewable Energy
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Soil Treatment
  • Tillage Effect
  • Carbon Nanotube Composite
  • Control Systems
  • Grain Extraction
  • Environmental Safety
  • Wood-Polymeric Materials
  • Vibration Mechanochemical Coating
Research works
6.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
610
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mechanical Systems and Engineering

Which countries lead Mechanical Systems and Engineering research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (878 and 289 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 878 works
  2. 2 Ukraine 289 works
  3. 3 Uzbekistan 138 works
  4. 4 United States 72 works
  5. 5 China 54 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 43 works
  7. 7 Poland 34 works
  8. 8 Belarus 23 works
  9. 9 Bulgaria 23 works
  10. 10 Germany 22 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.

Russia: 55.7%Ukraine: 18.4%Uzbekistan: 8.7%United States: 4.6%6 others listed: 12.6%56%largest
Russia878 · 55.7%Ukraine289 · 18.4%Uzbekistan138 · 8.7%United States72 · 4.6%6 others listed199 · 12.6%

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

Which institutions lead Mechanical Systems and Engineering research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mechanical Systems and Engineering research, followed by Don State Technical University and Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 74 works
  2. 2 Don State Technical UniversityRussia 44 works
  3. 3 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 41 works
  4. 4 Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 38 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan 20 works
  7. 7 Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 18 works
  8. 8 Volgograd State Technical UniversityRussia 17 works
  9. 9 Omsk State Technical UniversityRussia 17 works
  10. 10 Kazan State Agrarian UniversityRussia 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mechanical Systems and Engineering?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mechanical Systems and Engineering include V. A. Kramarenko.

  1. 1 V. A. Kramarenko France 53k 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 Mechanical Systems and Engineering?

The most cited paper in Mechanical Systems and Engineering is "A One-Equation Local Correlation-Based Transition Model" (Florian R. Menter, Pavel E. Smirnov, Tao Liu et al., 2015), with 564 citations. Next come "New Solutions to Rigid-Plastic Deformation Problems Using a Matrix Method" (416) and "Prediction of rigid wheel performance based on the analysis of soil-wheel stresses part I. Performance of driven rigid wheels" (416).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A One-Equation Local Correlation-Based Transition Model Florian R. Menter, Pavel E. Smirnov, Tao Liu et al. · Flow Turbulence and Combustion 4 Jul 2015 564
2 New Solutions to Rigid-Plastic Deformation Problems Using a Matrix Method C. H. Lee, Shiro Kobayashi · Journal of Engineering for Industry Aug 1973 416
3 Prediction of rigid wheel performance based on the analysis of soil-wheel stresses part I. Performance of driven rigid wheels J.Y. Wong, A.R. Reece · Journal of Terramechanics 1967 416
4 Mechanical Systems of Rigid Bodies Subject to Unilateral Constraints Per Lötstedt · SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics Open access Apr 1982 302
5 Dynamically Loaded Journal Bearings: Mobility Method of Solution J. F. Booker · Journal of Basic Engineering Sep 1965 241
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Mechanical Systems and Engineering research done?

The largest centres of Mechanical Systems and Engineering research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Voronezh (Russia) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Omsk, Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 206 works
  2. 2 TashkentUzbekistan 79 works
  3. 3 VoronezhRussia 67 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 66 works
  5. 5 Rostov-on-DonRussia 64 works
  6. 6 Saint PetersburgRussia 48 works
  7. 7 KharkivUkraine 41 works
  8. 8 OmskRussia 36 works
  9. 9 Kazan’Russia 33 works
  10. 10 YekaterinburgRussia 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OmskRU · 36.2 works124×
  2. VoronezhRU · 66.6 works109×
  3. Rostov-on-DonRU · 63.9 works81×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mechanical Systems and Engineering than the world average.

See Mechanical Systems and Engineering on the map

Where is the best place to study Mechanical Systems and Engineering?

Among universities, judged by research, Tashkent State Transport University, Don State Technical University and Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies 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 15.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tashkent State Trans…Tashkent State Techn…Don State Technical …Voronezh State Unive…
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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
1Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 62.745.6%149.8×14 +404.7%
2Don State Technical UniversityRussia 43.07.1%252.8×44 -42.2%
3Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 42.84.2%228.8×38 +51.7%
4Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam KarimovUzbekistan 42.811.1%176.4×20 +140.0%
5Weatherford CollegeUnited States 41.69.3%11.6×23 +71.8%
6Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 40.612.6%151.2×41 -57.9%
7Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 39.410.0%162.5×18 -27.4%
8Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 37.018.6%39.4×15 +2.3%
9National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 36.515.7%91.0×15 -1.0%
10Namangan Engineering Pedagogical InstituteUzbekistan 32.021.3%145.1×9 +46.9%

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 Mechanical Systems and Engineering, country by country

Is Mechanical Systems and Engineering research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Mechanical Systems and Engineering as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0050% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Mechanical Systems and Engineering0.0058% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mechanical Systems and Engineering 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%Mechanical Systems and Engineering10.4% 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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