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Simulation Techniques and Applications

Simulation Techniques and Applications is a research topic within Management Science and Operations Research. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the optimization techniques, verification, and validation of simulation models, with an emphasis on agent-based modeling, parallel simulation systems, metamodeling, stochastic approximation, and discrete-event simulation. It also explores the use of sequential procedures in complex adaptive systems and addresses the challenges in modeling and simulation.

  • Simulation Optimization
  • Verification and Validation
  • Agent-Based Modeling
  • Parallel Simulation Systems
  • Metamodeling
  • Stochastic Approximation
  • Discrete-Event Simulation
  • Sequential Procedures
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Simulation Techniques and Applications

Which countries lead Simulation Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (911 and 538 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 911 works
  2. 2 China 538 works
  3. 3 Germany 373 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 170 works
  5. 5 France 163 works
  6. 6 India 152 works
  7. 7 Italy 145 works
  8. 8 Canada 98 works
  9. 9 Russia 96 works
  10. 10 Japan 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.

United States: 33.5%China: 19.8%Germany: 13.7%United Kingdom: 6.2%6 others listed: 26.9%33%largest
United States911 · 33.5%China538 · 19.8%Germany373 · 13.7%United Kingdom170 · 6.2%6 others listed732 · 26.9%

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

Which institutions lead Simulation Techniques and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Simulation Techniques and Applications research, followed by Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and RWTH Aachen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 46 works
  2. 2 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 37 works
  3. 3 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 29 works
  4. 4 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 28 works
  5. 5 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 25 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 23 works
  8. 8 Sandia National LaboratoriesUnited States 21 works
  9. 9 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 19 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Simulation Techniques and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Simulation Techniques and Applications include Yoshua Bengio, Robert John Tibshirani and Yann LeCun.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  3. 3 Yann LeCun United States 256k citations
  4. 4 Gordon K. Smyth Australia 237k citations
  5. 5 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Simulation Techniques and Applications?

The most cited paper in Simulation Techniques and Applications is "jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing" (Diego Darriba, Guillermo L. Taboada, Ramón Doallo et al., 2012), with 17,284 citations. Next come "`` Direct Search'' Solution of Numerical and Statistical Problems" (4,285) and "Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes" (4,151).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing Diego Darriba, Guillermo L. Taboada, Ramón Doallo et al. · Nature Methods Open access 30 Jul 2012 17,284
2 `` Direct Search'' Solution of Numerical and Statistical Problems Robert Hooke, T. A. Jeeves · Journal of the ACM Open access Apr 1961 4,285
3 Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes Athanasios Papoulis, Joseph G. Hoffman · Physics Today 1967 4,151
4 A cellular automaton model for freeway traffic Kai Nagel, Michael Schreckenberg · Journal de Physique I Open access Dec 1992 3,868
5 The Theory of Stochastic Processes David Roxbee Cox, H. D. B. Miller, George H. Weiss et al. · Physics Today Dec 1966 3,365
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Simulation Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Simulation Techniques and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Stuttgart and Aachen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 148 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 50 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 43 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 37 works
  6. 6 MunichGermany 35 works
  7. 7 AtlantaUnited States 34 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 30 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 29 works
  10. 10 AachenGermany 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. StuttgartDE · 27.9 works8.7×
  2. AachenDE · 28.4 works8.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Simulation Techniques and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Simulation Techniques and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Georgia Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen University and Tsinghua 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 21.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tongji UniversityTsinghua UniversityRWTH Aachen UniversityGeorgia Institute of…
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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
1Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 75.413.6%13.8×28 +50.0%
2RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 72.013.8%11.2×28 +56.8%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 63.620.3%3.1×23 +197.5%
4Tongji UniversityChina 62.329.8%2.2×11 +234.3%
5Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 61.917.0%11.4×15 -6.0%
6Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 60.522.5%5.2×12 +41.1%
7Sapienza University of RomeItaly 59.032.2%2.4×9 +85.9%
8University of MichiganUnited States 56.828.7%2.1×10 +24.4%
9Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 56.215.8%6.3×14 +24.1%
10Peking UniversityChina 54.420.5%1.9×13 +234.6%

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 Simulation Techniques and Applications, country by country

Is Simulation Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Simulation Techniques and Applications.

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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 Simulation Techniques and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Simulation Techniques and 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.

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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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