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Military Defense Systems Analysis

Military Defense Systems Analysis is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 8.9k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the optimization of weapon-target assignment problems, including dynamic and uncertain scenarios. It explores various heuristic algorithms, game theoretic modeling, missile defense strategies, threat evaluation methods, and the application of Lanchester models.

  • Weapon-Target Assignment
  • Optimization
  • Dynamic
  • Heuristic Algorithms
  • Game Theoretic Modeling
  • Missile Defense
  • Threat Evaluation
  • Ant Colony Optimization
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Lanchester Models
Research works
8.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
867
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+65%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
71% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Military Defense Systems Analysis

Which countries lead Military Defense Systems Analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 176 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 176 works
  3. 3 India 78 works
  4. 4 South Korea 49 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 36 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 32 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 31 works
  8. 8 Russia 23 works
  9. 9 Romania 22 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.

China: 70.6%United States: 11.1%India: 4.9%South Korea: 3.1%6 others listed: 10.4%71%largest
China1,124 · 70.6%United States176 · 11.1%India78 · 4.9%South Korea49 · 3.1%6 others listed166 · 10.4%

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

Which institutions lead Military Defense Systems Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Northwestern Polytechnical University publishes the most Military Defense Systems Analysis research, followed by National University of Defense Technology and Air Force Engineering University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 92 works
  2. 2 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 72 works
  3. 3 Air Force Engineering UniversityChina 58 works
  4. 4 Beihang UniversityChina 56 works
  5. 5 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 53 works
  6. 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 32 works
  7. 7 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 31 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 31 works
  9. 9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 29 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Military Defense Systems Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Military Defense Systems Analysis include Kai You Wang, Huan Liu and Thomas L. Saaty.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  3. 3 Thomas L. Saaty United States 122k citations
  4. 4 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  5. 5 Jinde Cao China 104k citations
  6. 6 Jie Liu United States 98k 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 Military Defense Systems Analysis?

The most cited paper in Military Defense Systems Analysis is "An algorithm for quadratic programming" (Marguerite Frank, Philip Wolfe, 1956), with 3,107 citations. Next come "Survey of decentralized control methods for large scale systems" (1,081) and "Weapon selection using the AHP and TOPSIS methods under fuzzy environment" (797).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An algorithm for quadratic programming Marguerite Frank, Philip Wolfe · Naval Research Logistics Quarterly Mar 1956 3,107
2 Survey of decentralized control methods for large scale systems NILS R. SANDELL, Pravin P. Varaiya, Michael Athans et al. · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Apr 1978 1,081
3 Weapon selection using the AHP and TOPSIS methods under fuzzy environment Metin Dağdeviren, Serkan Yavuz, Nevzat Kılınç · Expert Systems with Applications 12 Nov 2008 797
4 Impact-time-control guidance law for anti-ship missiles In-Soo Jeon, Jin-Ik Lee, Min-Jea Tahk · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 21 Feb 2006 790
5 Nonzero-sum differential games A. W. Starr, Y. C. Ho · Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications Mar 1969 767
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Military Defense Systems Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Military Defense Systems Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xi'an, Changsha and Daejeon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 299 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 207 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 107 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 80 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 44 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 42 works
  8. 8 ShenyangChina 26 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 23 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Xi'anCN · 207.2 works15×
  2. ChangshaCN · 80.4 works9.2×
  3. DaejeonKR · 20.3 works6.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Military Defense Systems Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Military Defense Systems Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Beihang University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Northwestern Polytechnical 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%10%20%30%mean 19.74%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harbin Institute of …Beihang UniversityNorthwestern Polytec…Beijing Institute of…
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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
1Beihang UniversityChina 79.220.4%32.0×56 +76.6%
2Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 77.225.2%11.3×29 +89.5%
3Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 72.916.3%51.3×92 +96.0%
4Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 68.516.2%28.6×53 +67.1%
5Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 66.815.7%13.3×10 +6.3%
6Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 62.527.2%16.2×9 +512.5%
7Xidian UniversityChina 60.227.1%9.3×11 +142.6%
8University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 57.520.2%6.5×12 +198.0%
9National University of Defense TechnologyChina 55.49.3%58.8×72 +25.0%
10Beijing Electronic Science and Technology InstituteChina 54.519.8%151.8×10 +260.8%

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 Military Defense Systems Analysis, country by country

Is Military Defense Systems Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 65% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Military Defense Systems Analysis.

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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 Military Defense Systems Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0083% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Military Defense Systems Analysis 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%Military Defense Systems Analysis10.4% 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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