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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. 10.0% 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%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Power System Reliability and Maintenance

Which countries lead Power System Reliability and Maintenance research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 465 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 465 works
  3. 3 India 347 works
  4. 4 Iran 134 works
  5. 5 Brazil 126 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 115 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 89 works
  8. 8 Germany 82 works
  9. 9 ?? 76 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 69 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: 52.7%United States: 14.6%India: 10.9%Iran: 4.2%6 others listed: 17.5%53%largest
China1,674 · 52.7%United States465 · 14.6%India347 · 10.9%Iran134 · 4.2%6 others listed557 · 17.5%

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

Which institutions lead Power System Reliability and Maintenance research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 129 works
  2. 2 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 100 works
  3. 3 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 85 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Electric (China)China 76 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 61 works
  6. 6 Chongqing UniversityChina 38 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 35 works
  8. 8 Shandong UniversityChina 31 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 29 works
  10. 10 Southeast UniversityChina 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Power System Reliability and Maintenance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Power System Reliability and Maintenance include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k 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 Power System Reliability and Maintenance?

The most cited paper in Power System Reliability and Maintenance is "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., 1999), with 3,081 citations. Next come "Radial distribution test feeders" (1,914) and "A Computationally Efficient Mixed-Integer Linear Formulation for the Thermal Unit Commitment Problem" (1,749).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Radial distribution test feeders William H. Kersting · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Aug 1991 1,914
3 A Computationally Efficient Mixed-Integer Linear Formulation for the Thermal Unit Commitment Problem Miguel Carrión, José M. Arroyo · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Aug 2006 1,749
4 The continuation power flow: a tool for steady state voltage stability analysis Venkataramana Ajjarapu, Colin Christy · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 1992 1,696
5 Power System Static-State Estimation, Part I: Exact Model Fred C. Schweppe, John Michael Wildes · IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems 1970 1,394
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Where is Power System Reliability and Maintenance research done?

The largest centres of Power System Reliability and Maintenance research in 2022-now 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, Palo Alto and Gurgaon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 357 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 142 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 135 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 110 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 87 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 71 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 60 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 57 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 51 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Beijing29.4 works17×
  2. Palo AltoUS · 23.5 works16×
  3. GurgaonIN · 26.4 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and North China Electric Power 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 18.58%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Electr…Hong Kong Polytechni…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…North China Electric…
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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 64.216.8%9.1×61 +38.9%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 56.625.6%3.3×11 +236.4%
3North China Electric Power UniversityChina 54.68.0%33.2×85 +10.4%
4University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 54.235.8%1.9×8 +33.8%
5Chongqing UniversityChina 52.812.1%9.0×38 +11.2%
6Southeast UniversityChina 51.819.8%4.6×26 +14.2%
7Beihang UniversityChina 49.219.1%3.8×16 +39.2%
8Northeast Electric Power UniversityChina 48.114.5%28.9×14 +79.7%
9University of ConnecticutUnited States 47.217.8%5.9×10 +115.5%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 46.616.3%4.0×35 -22.8%

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 Power System Reliability and Maintenance, country by country

Is Power System Reliability and Maintenance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Power System Reliability and Maintenance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Power System Reliability and Maintenance 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%Power System Reliability and Maintenance9.9% 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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