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Physics and Engineering Research Articles

Physics and Engineering Research Articles is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 46k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to fluid dynamics, renewable energy integration, engineering applications, materials science, vibration analysis, thermal management, sustainability, turbine technology, and mathematical modeling. It includes research on topics such as wind energy systems, hydrodynamics, heat transfer enhancement, and the development of new composite materials for various engineering applications.

  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Renewable Energy
  • Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Renewable Energy Integration
  • Vibration Analysis
  • Thermal Management
  • Sustainability
  • Turbine Technology
  • Mathematical Modeling
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
80% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Physics and Engineering Research Articles

Which countries lead Physics and Engineering Research Articles research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (3.2k and 232 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 3.2k works
  2. 2 United States 232 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 175 works
  4. 4 Austria 161 works
  5. 5 China 60 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 54 works
  7. 7 Italy 45 works
  8. 8 India 34 works
  9. 9 France 29 works
  10. 10 Canada 23 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.

Germany: 79.7%United States: 5.8%Switzerland: 4.4%Austria: 4.0%6 others listed: 6.1%80%largest
Germany3,195 · 79.7%United States232 · 5.8%Switzerland175 · 4.4%Austria161 · 4.0%6 others listed246 · 6.1%

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

Which institutions lead Physics and Engineering Research Articles research?

By volume in 2022-now, Technical University of Munich publishes the most Physics and Engineering Research Articles research, followed by Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and University of Stuttgart.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Technical University of MunichGermany 121 works
  2. 2 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 97 works
  3. 3 University of StuttgartGermany 85 works
  4. 4 FH AachenGermany 58 works
  5. 5 FH MünsterGermany 57 works
  6. 6 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 52 works
  7. 7 Stuttgart ObservatoryGermany 52 works
  8. 8 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 50 works
  9. 9 München KlinikGermany 47 works
  10. 10 ETH ZurichSwitzerland 45 works

Who are the leading researchers in Physics and Engineering Research Articles?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Physics and Engineering Research Articles include Giuseppe Remuzzi, Dan J. Stein and Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian.

  1. 1 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  2. 2 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  3. 3 Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian Singapore 252k 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 Physics and Engineering Research Articles?

The most cited paper in Physics and Engineering Research Articles is "TESTING FOR SERIAL CORRELATION IN LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION. II" (James Durbin, G. S. Watson, 1951), with 3,650 citations. Next come "Fourier integral operators. I" (2,434) and "The Factorization Method" (1,596).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 TESTING FOR SERIAL CORRELATION IN LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION. II James Durbin, G. S. Watson · Biometrika 1951 3,650
2 Fourier integral operators. I Lars Hörmander · Acta Mathematica 1971 2,434
3 The Factorization Method Léopold Infeld, T. E. Hull · Reviews of Modern Physics 1951 1,596
4 The spectral function of an elliptic operator Lars Hörmander · Acta Mathematica Open access 1968 876
5 Massenspektrometrie B. Güssregen · Springer Reference Medizin Book chapter 2019 649
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Where is Physics and Engineering Research Articles research done?

The largest centres of Physics and Engineering Research Articles research in 2022-now are Munich (Germany), Stuttgart (Germany), Berlin (Germany) and Karlsruhe (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Amberg, Lemgo and Weingarten.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MunichGermany 271 works
  2. 2 StuttgartGermany 194 works
  3. 3 BerlinGermany 172 works
  4. 4 KarlsruheGermany 119 works
  5. 5 AachenGermany 118 works
  6. 6 HamburgGermany 97 works
  7. 7 MünsterGermany 89 works
  8. 8 HanoverGermany 82 works
  9. 9 ViennaAustria 75 works
  10. 10 ZurichSwitzerland 70 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AmbergDE · 20.4 works519×
  2. LemgoDE · 21.0 works373×
  3. WeingartenDE · 25.4 works346×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Physics and Engineering Research Articles than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Physics and Engineering Research Articles?

Among universities, judged by research, Technical University of Munich, Bern University of Applied Sciences and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 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%mean 13.27%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Christian-Albrechts-…Bern University of A…Technical University…RWTH Aachen 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
1Technical University of MunichGermany 80.415.6%38.8×121 +109.2%
2Bern University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 72.519.9%46.5×12 +22.3%
3Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 68.322.0%9.6×10 +29.1%
4RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 64.914.7%18.8×52 -37.1%
5ETH ZurichSwitzerland 63.59.4%18.2×45 +444.5%
6Leibniz University HannoverGermany 59.614.6%35.5×37 -4.8%
7TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 59.45.5%54.9×50 +91.2%
8Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-SenftenbergGermany 58.113.8%42.0×12 +2.9%
9University of MünsterGermany 57.611.2%17.8×27 +95.5%
10University of FreiburgGermany 57.06.0%19.6×32 +85.3%

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 Physics and Engineering Research Articles, country by country

Is Physics and Engineering Research Articles research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Physics and Engineering Research Articles as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Physics and Engineering Research Articles0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Physics and Engineering Research Articles 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%Physics and Engineering Research Articles9.5% 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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