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Optimal Power Flow Distribution

Optimal Power Flow Distribution is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 32k 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 integration of distributed generation, including renewable energy sources, into power systems. It covers topics such as optimal power flow, voltage control, resilience to extreme weather events, microgrid formation, and probabilistic analysis of distribution systems. The research also explores optimization techniques and network reconfiguration for efficient integration of distributed generation.

  • Distributed Generation
  • Optimal Power Flow
  • Distribution Systems
  • Renewable Energy
  • Voltage Control
  • Resilience
  • Optimization
  • Microgrids
  • Probabilistic Analysis
  • Network Reconfiguration
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Optimal Power Flow Distribution

Which countries lead Optimal Power Flow Distribution research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 India 1.1k works
  3. 3 United States 881 works
  4. 4 Iran 368 works
  5. 5 Brazil 258 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 177 works
  7. 7 Germany 164 works
  8. 8 Egypt 146 works
  9. 9 Australia 144 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 133 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: 47.3%India: 17.3%United States: 13.7%Iran: 5.7%6 others listed: 15.9%47%largest
China3,032 · 47.3%India1,107 · 17.3%United States881 · 13.7%Iran368 · 5.7%6 others listed1,021 · 15.9%

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

Which institutions lead Optimal Power Flow Distribution research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Optimal Power Flow Distribution research, followed by North China Electric Power University and China Southern Power Grid (China).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 225 works
  2. 2 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 159 works
  3. 3 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 151 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Electric (China)China 148 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 95 works
  6. 6 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 76 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 74 works
  8. 8 Shandong UniversityChina 73 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 72 works
  10. 10 Southeast UniversityChina 71 works

Who are the leading researchers in Optimal Power Flow Distribution?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Optimal Power Flow Distribution include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  5. 5 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  6. 6 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  8. 8 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  9. 9 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  10. 10 Adrian Pană Romania 131k 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 Optimal Power Flow Distribution?

The most cited paper in Optimal Power Flow Distribution is "MATPOWER: Steady-State Operations, Planning, and Analysis Tools for Power Systems Research and Education" (Ray Daniel Zimmerman, Carlos Edmundo Murillo-Sanchez, Robert John Thomas, 2010), with 6,899 citations. Next come "Network reconfiguration in distribution systems for loss reduction and load balancing" (5,071) and "The IEEE Reliability Test System-1996. A report prepared by the Reliability Test System Task Force of the Application of Probability Methods Subcommittee" (3,081).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MATPOWER: Steady-State Operations, Planning, and Analysis Tools for Power Systems Research and Education Ray Daniel Zimmerman, Carlos Edmundo Murillo-Sanchez, Robert John Thomas · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 25 Jun 2010 6,899
2 Network reconfiguration in distribution systems for loss reduction and load balancing Mesut E. Baran, F.F. Wu · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Apr 1989 5,071
3 The IEEE Reliability Test System-1996. A report prepared by the Reliability Test System Task Force of the Application of Probability Methods Subcommittee C. Grigg, P. Wong, P. F. Albrecht et al. · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 1999 3,081
4 Particle Swarm Optimization: Basic Concepts, Variants and Applications in Power Systems Yamille del Valle, Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Salman Mohagheghi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Apr 2008 2,284
5 Optimal capacitor placement on radial distribution systems Mesut E. Baran, F.F. Wu · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 1989 2,077
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Optimal Power Flow Distribution research done?

The largest centres of Optimal Power Flow Distribution research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aswān, Yangpu and Golden.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 569 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 263 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 248 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 230 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 136 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 132 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 122 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 120 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 109 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 107 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AswānEG · 20.1 works30×
  2. YangpuCN · 41.0 works26×
  3. GoldenUS · 36.8 works17×
  4. Palo AltoUS · 48.9 works16×
  5. GurgaonIN · 53.1 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Optimal Power Flow Distribution than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Optimal Power Flow Distribution?

Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, City University of Macau and Nanyang Technological 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 20.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanyang Technologica…City University of M…Hong Kong Polytechni…Xi'an Jiaotong 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
1Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 65.116.1%7.1×95 +60.8%
2City University of MacauChina 64.225.8%8.6×10 +280.0%
3Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 63.627.8%5.3×32 -13.9%
4Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 63.023.0%4.0×26 +140.5%
5North China Electric Power UniversityChina 62.39.9%31.0×158 +21.7%
6Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom 61.633.1%2.8×10 +20.2%
7Tianjin UniversityChina 59.913.6%7.5×70 +26.6%
8University of MacauChina 59.426.7%3.7×9 +39.6%
9Northeast Electric Power UniversityChina 57.816.1%36.0×36 +109.0%
10Southeast UniversityChina 56.113.2%6.3×71 +10.0%

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 Optimal Power Flow Distribution, country by country

Is Optimal Power Flow Distribution research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Optimal Power Flow Distribution.

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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 Optimal Power Flow Distribution as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Optimal Power Flow Distribution0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Optimal Power Flow Distribution 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%Optimal Power Flow Distribution9.8% 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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