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Power Systems and Renewable Energy

Power Systems and Renewable Energy is a research topic within Energy Engineering and Power Technology. Science Explorer counts 40k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of energy storage technologies, such as battery systems and pumped-storage power stations, in integrating renewable energy sources like photovoltaic and wind power into power grids. It also addresses the challenges and benefits of energy storage, including frequency regulation, grid stability, and environmental impact.

  • Energy Storage
  • Power Systems
  • Renewable Energy
  • Grid Integration
  • Photovoltaic Generation
  • Frequency Regulation
  • Wind Power
  • Smart Grid
  • Battery Technology
  • Environmental Impact
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+136%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
78% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Power Systems and Renewable Energy

Which countries lead Power Systems and Renewable Energy research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (6.5k and 723 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 6.5k works
  2. 2 India 723 works
  3. 3 United States 363 works
  4. 4 ?? 246 works
  5. 5 Japan 114 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 95 works
  7. 7 South Korea 86 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 84 works
  9. 9 Iran 80 works
  10. 10 Algeria 79 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: 77.8%India: 8.6%United States: 4.3%??: 2.9%6 others listed: 6.4%78%largest
China6,547 · 77.8%India723 · 8.6%United States363 · 4.3%??246 · 2.9%6 others listed538 · 6.4%

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

Which institutions lead Power Systems and Renewable Energy research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Power Systems and Renewable Energy research, followed by North China Electric Power University and Shanghai Electric (China).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 509 works
  2. 2 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 414 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Electric (China)China 311 works
  4. 4 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 288 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 126 works
  6. 6 Shandong UniversityChina 121 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 118 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 116 works
  9. 9 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 96 works
  10. 10 Inner Mongolia Electric Power (China)China 89 works

Who are the leading researchers in Power Systems and Renewable Energy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Power Systems and Renewable Energy include Wei Huang, Xiaogang Wang and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  5. 5 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  6. 6 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  7. 7 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  8. 8 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  9. 9 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  10. 10 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Systems and Renewable Energy?

The most cited paper in Power Systems and Renewable Energy is "Renewable energy resources: Current status, future prospects and their enabling technology" (Omar Ellabban, Haitham Abu‐Rub, Frede Blaabjerg, 2014), with 3,133 citations. Next come "Particle swarm optimization to solving the economic dispatch considering the generator constraints" (1,723) and "Comparison of Dynamic Characteristics Between Virtual Synchronous Generator and Droop Control in Inverter-Based Distributed Generators" (1,240).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Renewable energy resources: Current status, future prospects and their enabling technology Omar Ellabban, Haitham Abu‐Rub, Frede Blaabjerg · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 6 Aug 2014 3,133
2 Particle swarm optimization to solving the economic dispatch considering the generator constraints Z.-L. Gaing · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 29 Jul 2003 1,723
3 Comparison of Dynamic Characteristics Between Virtual Synchronous Generator and Droop Control in Inverter-Based Distributed Generators Jia Liu, Yushi Miura, Toshifumi Ise · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 13 Aug 2015 1,240
4 A Hybrid AC/DC Microgrid and Its Coordination Control Xiong Liu, Peng Wang, Poh Chiang Loh · IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 17 Mar 2011 1,190
5 Review of energy storage system for wind power integration support Haoran Zhao, Qiuwei Wu, Shuju Hu et al. · Applied Energy 23 May 2014 1,133
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Power Systems and Renewable Energy research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.4k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 568 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 438 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 415 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 291 works
  6. 6 JinanChina 225 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 216 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 200 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 175 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 170 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaishanCN · 41.0 works122×
  2. YangpuCN · 71.0 works41×
  3. Beijing145.6 works39×
  4. Jilin CityCN · 74.6 works24×
  5. Palo AltoUS · 66.6 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Power Systems and Renewable Energy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Power Systems and Renewable Energy?

Among universities, judged by research, Aalborg University, Nanyang Technological 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 21.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Aalborg UniversityNanyang Technologica…Zhejiang UniversityNorth 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
1Aalborg UniversityDenmark 66.336.3%6.8×32 -14.1%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 63.933.0%2.6×17 +110.0%
3North China Electric Power UniversityChina 60.79.7%74.7×414 +62.7%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 56.517.3%5.3×118 +191.8%
5National Institute of Technology RourkelaIndia 55.839.2%5.3×10 +83.4%
6Tsinghua UniversityChina 55.712.7%6.6×126 +141.8%
7Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 55.615.7%8.0×116 +162.4%
8Hunan UniversityChina 53.018.9%10.2×60 +151.9%
9Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 52.920.2%3.3×24 +356.7%
10Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 52.814.0%6.4×96 +136.5%

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 Systems and Renewable Energy, country by country

Is Power Systems and Renewable Energy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 136% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Power Systems and Renewable Energy.

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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 Systems and Renewable Energy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.072% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Power Systems and Renewable Energy0.047% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Power Systems and Renewable Energy 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 Systems and Renewable Energy9.7% 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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