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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. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 402 works
  3. 3 India 302 works
  4. 4 Iran 121 works
  5. 5 Brazil 109 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 97 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 75 works
  8. 8 Germany 71 works
  9. 9 ?? 67 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 62 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: 51.6%United States: 14.9%India: 11.2%Iran: 4.5%6 others listed: 17.8%52%largest
China1,389 · 51.6%United States402 · 14.9%India302 · 11.2%Iran121 · 4.5%6 others listed480 · 17.8%

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

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.

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. 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 12k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
  3. 3 Josep M. Guerrero Denmark 5.6k citations
  4. 4 Marco Liserre Germany 4.6k citations
  5. 5 Mohammad Shahidehpour United States 3.3k citations
  6. 6 Zhao Yang Dong Australia 3.1k citations
  7. 7 Jianhui Wang United States 2.5k citations
  8. 8 Enrico Zio Italy 2.4k citations
  9. 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

  1. 1 Beijing China 300 works
  2. 2 Guangzhou China 127 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 115 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 96 works
  5. 5 Xi'an China 74 works
  6. 6 Wuhan China 60 works
  7. 7 Tehran Iran 55 works
  8. 8 Chengdu China 50 works
  9. 9 Tianjin China 43 works
  10. 10 Chongqing China 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Beijing27.2 works17×
  2. GurgaonIN · 20.1 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Power System Reliability and Maintenance than the world average.

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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.

0%20%40%mean 15.82%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Xi'an Jiaotong University: 47, 17.3%North China Electric Power University: 75, 7.7%Chongqing University: 33, 14.0%Iowa State University: 9, 30.4%Southeast University: 24, 17.1%Northeast Electric Power University: 13, 12.0%Beijing Jiaotong University: 10, 25.8%University of Connecticut: 10, 17.9%Changsha University of Science and Technology: 11, 8.2%Shandong University: 28, 7.8%Iowa State UniversityXi'an Jiaotong Unive…Chongqing UniversityNorth China Electric…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 64.917.3%8.0×47 +174.9%
2 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 53.87.7%30.4×75 -14.6%
3 Chongqing UniversityChina 53.014.0%8.2×33 +69.5%
4 Iowa State UniversityUnited States 50.730.4%6.7×9 +12.3%
5 Southeast UniversityChina 50.317.1%4.8×24 +194.0%
6 Northeast Electric Power UniversityChina 49.812.0%26.9×13 +74.4%
7 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 48.625.8%4.3×10 +360.7%
8 University of ConnecticutUnited States 46.917.9%7.2×10 +120.9%
9 Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina 45.48.2%11.8×11 +101.0%
10 Shandong UniversityChina 45.07.8%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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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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.