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Power Systems and Technologies

Power Systems and Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 38k research works in it since 1950. 9.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the integration and standardization of power system data, particularly through the use of the Common Information Model (CIM) and CIM XML. The papers cover topics such as data exchange, smart grid applications, modeling, interoperability, and the development of standards for electric utility applications.

  • Common Information Model
  • CIM XML
  • Power System
  • Data Exchange
  • Smart Grid
  • Modeling
  • Interoperability
  • Electric Utility
  • Standards
  • Integration
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+138%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
76% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Power Systems and Technologies

Which countries lead Power Systems and Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.7k and 288 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.7k works
  2. 2 United States 288 works
  3. 3 India 262 works
  4. 4 ?? 169 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 99 works
  6. 6 Japan 90 works
  7. 7 Germany 76 works
  8. 8 Russia 73 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 63 works
  10. 10 France 58 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: 76.0%United States: 5.9%India: 5.3%??: 3.5%6 others listed: 9.4%76%largest
China3,723 · 76.0%United States288 · 5.9%India262 · 5.3%??169 · 3.5%6 others listed458 · 9.4%

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

Which institutions lead Power Systems and Technologies research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 409 works
  2. 2 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 297 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Electric (China)China 250 works
  4. 4 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 178 works
  5. 5 NARI Group (China)China 106 works
  6. 6 Inner Mongolia Electric Power (China)China 57 works
  7. 7 Guizhou Electric Power Design and Research InstituteChina 54 works
  8. 8 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 54 works
  9. 9 Power Grid Corporation (India)India 51 works
  10. 10 Fujian Electric Power Survey & Design InstituteChina 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in Power Systems and Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Power Systems and Technologies include Takashi Taniguchi, Kai You Wang and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Technologies?

The most cited paper in Power Systems and Technologies is "Object-oriented modeling and design" (James E. Rumbaugh, Michael R. Blaha, William J. Premerlani et al., 1991), with 4,282 citations. Next come "Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems." (2,257) and "Operation of a Multiagent System for Microgrid Control" (1,037).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Object-oriented modeling and design James E. Rumbaugh, Michael R. Blaha, William J. Premerlani et al. · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) 1991 4,282
2 Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems. Donald H. Trahan, William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima · American Mathematical Monthly Aug 1979 2,257
3 Operation of a Multiagent System for Microgrid Control Aris Dimeas, Nikos D. Hatziargyriou · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Open access Aug 2005 1,037
4 Grid Structural Characteristics as Validation Criteria for Synthetic Networks Adam Barlow Birchfield, Ti Xu, Kathleen M. Gegner et al. · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 28 Oct 2016 740
5 Introducing custom power N.G. Hingorani · IEEE Spectrum Jun 1995 692
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Power Systems and Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Power Systems and Technologies 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 Baishan, Beijing and Yangpu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 923 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 375 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 374 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 252 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 116 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 108 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 100 works
  8. 8 Beijing 97 works
  9. 9 JinanChina 92 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 86 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaishanCN · 26.4 works137×
  2. Beijing96.6 works45×
  3. YangpuCN · 27.5 works28×
  4. GurgaonIN · 52.1 works23×
  5. Palo AltoUS · 39.3 works21×
  6. HohhotCN · 71.4 works16×
  7. Jilin CityCN · 26.8 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Power Systems and Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Power Systems and Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest Jiaotong University, Tianjin 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%10%20%30%mean 16.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest Jiaotong U…Tianjin UniversityXi'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
1Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 81.020.8%14.6×54 +204.4%
2Tianjin UniversityChina 79.317.2%5.8×34 +270.6%
3North China Electric Power UniversityChina 77.111.5%55.8×178 +68.6%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 76.716.5%5.6×47 +320.4%
5Tsinghua UniversityChina 75.213.1%4.5×49 +177.5%
6Hunan UniversityChina 72.324.0%5.4×18 +308.4%
7Southeast UniversityChina 71.617.7%5.4×38 +205.6%
8Shandong UniversityChina 71.613.0%6.1×38 +105.9%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 68.517.6%2.0×26 +96.2%
10Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 66.917.4%3.2×28 +108.4%

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 Technologies, country by country

Is Power Systems and Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 138% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Power Systems and Technologies.

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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 Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Power Systems and Technologies 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 Technologies9.6% 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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