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Pulsed Power Technology Applications

Pulsed Power Technology Applications is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 11k 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 technology and applications of pulsed power, including electron beam surface modification, high current systems, solid-state generators, high-power microwave sources, semiconductor switches, plasma sources, and radiography systems.

  • Pulsed Power
  • Electron Beam
  • High Current
  • Surface Modification
  • Solid-State Generators
  • High-Power Microwave
  • Semiconductor Switches
  • Plasma Source
  • Radiography Systems
  • Marx Generator
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pulsed Power Technology Applications

Which countries lead Pulsed Power Technology Applications research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (668 and 291 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 668 works
  2. 2 Russia 291 works
  3. 3 United States 195 works
  4. 4 India 80 works
  5. 5 Japan 40 works
  6. 6 Ukraine 35 works
  7. 7 France 35 works
  8. 8 Germany 34 works
  9. 9 South Korea 28 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 21 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: 46.8%Russia: 20.4%United States: 13.7%India: 5.6%6 others listed: 13.5%47%largest
China668 · 46.8%Russia291 · 20.4%United States195 · 13.7%India80 · 5.6%6 others listed193 · 13.5%

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

Which institutions lead Pulsed Power Technology Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Pulsed Power Technology Applications research, followed by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 148 works
  2. 2 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 65 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 54 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 48 works
  5. 5 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 44 works
  6. 6 Northwest Institute of Nuclear TechnologyChina 34 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 30 works
  8. 8 Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio-ElectronicsRussia 27 works
  9. 9 China Academy of Engineering PhysicsChina 26 works
  10. 10 Sandia National LaboratoriesUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pulsed Power Technology Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pulsed Power Technology Applications include Xiaogang Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and Hua Zhang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k 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 Pulsed Power Technology Applications?

The most cited paper in Pulsed Power Technology Applications is "High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding" (C. G. R. Geddes, Csaba Tóth, Jeroen van Tilborg et al., 2004), with 2,003 citations. Next come "GeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator" (1,717) and "Electron Spin Resonance Absorption in Metals. II. Theory of Electron Diffusion and the Skin Effect" (1,071).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding C. G. R. Geddes, Csaba Tóth, Jeroen van Tilborg et al. · Nature Sep 2004 2,003
2 GeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator Wim P. Leemans, Bob Nagler, Anthony J. Gonsalves et al. · Nature Physics Open access 24 Sep 2006 1,717
3 Electron Spin Resonance Absorption in Metals. II. Theory of Electron Diffusion and the Skin Effect Freeman J. Dyson · Physical Review 15 Apr 1955 1,071
4 Petawatt Laser Guiding and Electron Beam Acceleration to 8 GeV in a Laser-Heated Capillary Discharge Waveguide Anthony J. Gonsalves et al. · Physical Review Letters 25 Feb 2019 904
5 Subpicosecond photoconducting dipole antennas P. R. Smith, D. H. Auston, Martin C. Nuss · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics Feb 1988 807
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Pulsed Power Technology Applications research done?

The largest centres of Pulsed Power Technology Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Tomsk (Russia) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Albuquerque.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 122 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 109 works
  3. 3 TomskRussia 85 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 80 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 67 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 51 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 48 works
  8. 8 Nizhny NovgorodRussia 40 works
  9. 9 AlbuquerqueUnited States 34 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 84.7 works112×
  2. Nizhny NovgorodRU · 40.5 works57×
  3. AlbuquerqueUS · 34.2 works32×
  4. MianyangCN · 26.7 works31×
  5. KharkivUA · 24.0 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pulsed Power Technology Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pulsed Power Technology Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Chongqing University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and National University of Defense Technology 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 16.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chongqing UniversityNational University …Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…University of Electr…
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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
1Chongqing UniversityChina 78.337.4%11.6×17 +81.5%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 63.213.4%19.9×48 +42.2%
3National University of Defense TechnologyChina 59.818.0%41.7×44 +18.7%
4University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 59.38.5%42.3×65 +16.2%
5Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 53.113.2%11.9×30 +69.8%
6Naval University of EngineeringChina 45.625.5%61.0×13 +72.3%
7Xidian UniversityChina 43.616.6%11.8×12 +57.8%
8Tsinghua UniversityChina 37.714.3%5.3×17 +1.9%
9University of New MexicoUnited States 36.813.4%25.1×9 +5.1%
10Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio-ElectronicsRussia 32.33.5%440.4×27 -6.5%

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 Pulsed Power Technology Applications, country by country

Is Pulsed Power Technology Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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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 Pulsed Power Technology Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0058% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Pulsed Power Technology Applications 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%Pulsed Power Technology Applications10.1% 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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