Power System Reliability and Maintenance
Power System Reliability and Maintenance is a research topic within Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 17.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the reliability assessment of wind power generation systems, including topics such as maintenance scheduling, probabilistic assessment, generation adequacy, security assessment, transmission planning, and the integration of energy storage. The research aims to evaluate and enhance the reliability of power systems incorporating wind energy.
- Wind Power
- Reliability Evaluation
- Maintenance Scheduling
- Power System
- Probabilistic Assessment
- Generation Adequacy
- Security Assessment
- Transmission Planning
- Energy Storage
- Composite Reliability
- Research works
- 17k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 3k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 17.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +36% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Power System Reliability and Maintenance research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 402 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.4k works
- 2 United States 402 works
- 3 India 302 works
- 4 Iran 121 works
- 5 Brazil 109 works
- 6 Indonesia 97 works
- 7 United Kingdom 75 works
- 8 Germany 71 works
- 9 ?? 67 works
- 10 Nigeria 62 works
How concentrated that is
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Which institutions lead Power System Reliability and Maintenance research?
By volume in 2022–2025, China Southern Power Grid (China) publishes the most Power System Reliability and Maintenance research, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (China) and North China Electric Power University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 90 works
- 2 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 87 works
- 3 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 75 works
- 4 Shanghai Electric (China)China 66 works
- 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 47 works
- 6 Chongqing UniversityChina 33 works
- 7 Shandong UniversityChina 28 works
- 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 27 works
- 9 China Electric Power Research Institute?? 26 works
- 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 25 works
Who are the leading researchers in Power System Reliability and Maintenance?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Power System Reliability and Maintenance include Frede Blaabjerg, H. Vincent Poor and Josep M. Guerrero.
- 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 12k citations
- 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
- 3 Josep M. Guerrero Denmark 5.6k citations
- 4 Marco Liserre Germany 4.6k citations
- 5 Mohammad Shahidehpour United States 3.3k citations
- 6 Zhao Yang Dong Australia 3.1k citations
- 7 Jianhui Wang United States 2.5k citations
- 8 Enrico Zio Italy 2.4k citations
- 9 Zhe Chen Denmark 2.3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Power System Reliability and Maintenance research done?
The largest centres of Power System Reliability and Maintenance research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing and Gurgaon.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Beijing27.2 works17×
- GurgaonIN · 20.1 works14×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Power System Reliability and Maintenance than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Power System Reliability and Maintenance?
Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, North China Electric Power University and Chongqing 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina | 64.9 | 17.3% | 8.0× | 47 | +174.9% |
| 2 | North China Electric Power UniversityChina | 53.8 | 7.7% | 30.4× | 75 | -14.6% |
| 3 | Chongqing UniversityChina | 53.0 | 14.0% | 8.2× | 33 | +69.5% |
| 4 | Iowa State UniversityUnited States | 50.7 | 30.4% | 6.7× | 9 | +12.3% |
| 5 | Southeast UniversityChina | 50.3 | 17.1% | 4.8× | 24 | +194.0% |
| 6 | Northeast Electric Power UniversityChina | 49.8 | 12.0% | 26.9× | 13 | +74.4% |
| 7 | Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina | 48.6 | 25.8% | 4.3× | 10 | +360.7% |
| 8 | University of ConnecticutUnited States | 46.9 | 17.9% | 7.2× | 10 | +120.9% |
| 9 | Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina | 45.4 | 8.2% | 11.8× | 11 | +101.0% |
| 10 | Shandong UniversityChina | 45.0 | 7.8% | 6.3× | 28 | +171.6% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Power System Reliability and Maintenance research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 36% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Power System Reliability and Maintenance.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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