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Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy

Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy is a research topic within Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Science Explorer counts 8.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on safety assurance in the development of complex systems, particularly in domains such as automotive, aviation, and medical devices. It covers topics such as assurance cases, software certification, functional safety, risk assessment, and security assurance. The papers discuss methodologies, tools, and best practices for ensuring the safety and reliability of critical systems.

  • Safety Assurance
  • Assurance Cases
  • Software Certification
  • Functional Safety
  • Automotive SPICE
  • Model-Based Development
  • ISO 26262
  • Risk Assessment
  • Dependability Engineering
  • Security Assurance
Research works
8.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
823
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy

Which countries lead Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (420 and 314 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 420 works
  2. 2 Germany 314 works
  3. 3 China 213 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 115 works
  5. 5 India 80 works
  6. 6 France 79 works
  7. 7 Italy 66 works
  8. 8 Canada 60 works
  9. 9 Japan 49 works
  10. 10 Austria 45 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.

United States: 29.1%Germany: 21.8%China: 14.8%United Kingdom: 8.0%6 others listed: 26.3%29%largest
United States420 · 29.1%Germany314 · 21.8%China213 · 14.8%United Kingdom115 · 8.0%6 others listed378 · 26.3%

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

Which institutions lead Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres publishes the most Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy research, followed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and University of Stuttgart.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 26 works
  2. 2 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 24 works
  3. 3 University of StuttgartGermany 15 works
  4. 4 Technical University of MunichGermany 13 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 12 works
  6. 6 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 11 works
  7. 7 Film IndependentUnited States 11 works
  8. 8 Beihang UniversityChina 10 works
  9. 9 National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnited States 10 works
  10. 10 China Automotive Technology and Research CenterChina 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy include M. Weber and John Bannister Goodenough.

  1. 1 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  2. 2 John Bannister Goodenough United States 175k 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 Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy?

The most cited paper in Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy is "PRISM 4.0: Verification of Probabilistic Real-Time Systems" (Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David A. Parker, 2011), with 2,390 citations. Next come "Protection in operating systems" (1,042) and "Model-checking algorithms for continuous-time markov chains" (774).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PRISM 4.0: Verification of Probabilistic Real-Time Systems Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David A. Parker · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2011 2,390
2 Protection in operating systems Michael A. Harrison, Walter L. Ruzzo, Jeffrey David Ullman · Communications of the ACM Open access Aug 1976 1,042
3 Model-checking algorithms for continuous-time markov chains Christel Baier, Boudewijn R. H. M. Haverkort, Holger Hermanns et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Jun 2003 774
4 Business Process Management Workshops F CALORE, D LOMBARDI, E MUSSI et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2008 762
5 Challenges in Autonomous Vehicle Testing and Validation Philip John Koopman, Michael Wagner · SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety 5 Apr 2016 676
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy research done?

The largest centres of Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Munich (Germany) and Stuttgart (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Stuttgart.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 52 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 39 works
  3. 3 MunichGermany 37 works
  4. 4 StuttgartGermany 31 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 21 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 18 works
  8. 8 CologneGermany 18 works
  9. 9 KarlsruheGermany 17 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. StuttgartDE · 30.6 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy?

Among universities, judged by research, University of York, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Stuttgart 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 12.1125%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of YorkCarnegie Mellon Univ…Technical University…University of Stuttg…
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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 YorkUnited Kingdom 61.927.7%15.9×9 -19.7%
2Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 56.114.2%16.2×11 -6.4%
3University of StuttgartGermany 54.94.5%25.5×15 +29.3%
4Technical University of MunichGermany 54.112.2%8.8×13 -17.4%
5TU WienAustria 46.715.3%16.1×8 +38.5%
6RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 27.59.7%7.3×10 -25.6%
7Technische Universität DresdenGermany 23.72.8%9.9×9 -14.4%
8Beihang UniversityChina 17.710.5%5.4×10 -18.5%

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 Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy, country by country

Is Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy.

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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 Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0077% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy0.0085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy 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%Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy9.9% 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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