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Power Systems Fault Detection

Power Systems Fault Detection is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and implementation of adaptive protection schemes for microgrids with high penetration of distributed generation. The research covers topics such as fault detection, relay coordination, optimal protection coordination, fault location using wavelet transform and artificial neural network, and the impact of distributed generation on protective device coordination.

  • Microgrid
  • Protection
  • Fault Detection
  • Distributed Generation
  • Relay Coordination
  • Wavelet Transform
  • Artificial Neural Network
  • Optimal Coordination
  • Fault Location
  • Smart Grids
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Power Systems Fault Detection

Which countries lead Power Systems Fault Detection research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.1k and 763 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 India 763 works
  3. 3 United States 359 works
  4. 4 Iran 185 works
  5. 5 Brazil 165 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 124 works
  7. 7 Russia 121 works
  8. 8 ?? 97 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 87 works
  10. 10 Canada 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: 51.7%India: 18.6%United States: 8.8%Iran: 4.5%6 others listed: 16.4%52%largest
China2,120 · 51.7%India763 · 18.6%United States359 · 8.8%Iran185 · 4.5%6 others listed671 · 16.4%

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

Which institutions lead Power Systems Fault Detection research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Power Systems Fault Detection 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 184 works
  2. 2 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 144 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Electric (China)China 114 works
  4. 4 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 105 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 67 works
  6. 6 Shandong UniversityChina 60 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 47 works
  8. 8 Electric Power Research InstituteUnited States 37 works
  9. 9 Power Grid Corporation (India)India 37 works
  10. 10 Chongqing UniversityChina 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Power Systems Fault Detection?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Power Systems Fault Detection include Frede Blaabjerg, Hua Zhang and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  2. 2 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  3. 3 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  4. 4 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  6. 6 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  7. 7 Adrian Pană Romania 131k citations
  8. 8 Josep Maria Guerrero Denmark 123k citations
  9. 9 A. S. Cerqueira France 116k 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 Fault Detection?

The most cited paper in Power Systems Fault Detection is "Digital communications" (C. Christopoulos, Allen Micheal Wright, 1999), with 2,751 citations. Next come "New trends in active filters for power conditioning" (1,658) and "Causes of the 2003 Major Grid Blackouts in North America and Europe, and Recommended Means to Improve System Dynamic Performance" (1,303).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Digital communications C. Christopoulos, Allen Micheal Wright Book chapter 1999 2,751
2 New trends in active filters for power conditioning Hirofumi Akagi · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Open access 1996 1,658
3 Causes of the 2003 Major Grid Blackouts in North America and Europe, and Recommended Means to Improve System Dynamic Performance Göran Andersson, Peter J. Donalek, Richard G. Farmer et al. · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Nov 2005 1,303
4 Micro-Grid Autonomous Operation During and Subsequent to Islanding Process Farid Katiraei, Mohammad Reza Iravani, Peter W. Lehn · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 2005 1,157
5 A Practical Method for the Direct Analysis of Transient Stability T. Athay, Robin Podmore, Sudhir Virmani · IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems Mar 1979 1,121
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Power Systems Fault Detection research done?

The largest centres of Power Systems Fault Detection research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Palo Alto and Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 414 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 193 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 176 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 120 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 114 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 106 works
  7. 7 JinanChina 81 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 80 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 71 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Palo AltoUS · 37.4 works21×
  2. Beijing39.1 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Power Systems Fault Detection than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Power Systems Fault Detection?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Tehran, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 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 17.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Indian Institute of …University of TehranKing Fahd University…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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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
1University of TehranIran 68.221.2%5.0×13 +30.6%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 67.618.2%8.4×67 +11.0%
3Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 65.122.9%13.6×28 -0.1%
4King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 64.520.6%7.0×11 +137.2%
5Aalborg UniversityDenmark 63.430.0%5.6×15 -25.0%
6Fuzhou UniversityChina 62.517.2%9.9×25 +99.9%
7Shandong UniversityChina 60.59.7%10.1×60 +23.2%
8Chongqing UniversityChina 59.716.2%7.3×36 +48.2%
9North China Electric Power UniversityChina 58.98.3%34.6×105 +5.1%
10Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.715.3%27.7×31 +60.0%

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 Fault Detection, country by country

Is Power Systems Fault Detection research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Power Systems Fault Detection.

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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 Fault Detection as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Power Systems Fault Detection 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 Fault Detection9.8% 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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