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Smart Grid and Power Systems

Smart Grid and Power Systems is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 28k 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 technology, development, and applications of smart grid systems, including topics such as cloud computing, big data, renewable energy integration, distribution automation, intelligent control, and reliability analysis in the context of electric power systems. The papers also discuss energy efficiency and the impact of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) on power supply.

  • Smart Grid
  • Cloud Computing
  • Big Data
  • Power System
  • Renewable Energy
  • Distribution Automation
  • Electric Power
  • Intelligent Control
  • Reliability Analysis
  • Energy Efficiency
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+136%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
84% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Smart Grid and Power Systems

Which countries lead Smart Grid and Power Systems research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (4.3k and 254 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.3k works
  2. 2 India 254 works
  3. 3 United States 184 works
  4. 4 ?? 183 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 43 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 38 works
  7. 7 Japan 35 works
  8. 8 Germany 34 works
  9. 9 South Korea 32 works
  10. 10 Iran 30 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: 83.7%India: 5.0%United States: 3.6%??: 3.6%6 others listed: 4.1%84%largest
China4,283 · 83.7%India254 · 5.0%United States184 · 3.6%??183 · 3.6%6 others listed212 · 4.1%

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

Which institutions lead Smart Grid and Power Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Smart Grid and Power Systems 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 516 works
  2. 2 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 350 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Electric (China)China 302 works
  4. 4 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 253 works
  5. 5 NARI Group (China)China 110 works
  6. 6 Inner Mongolia Electric Power (China)China 73 works
  7. 7 Guizhou Electric Power Design and Research InstituteChina 65 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 61 works
  9. 9 Power Grid Corporation (India)India 57 works
  10. 10 Shandong UniversityChina 53 works

Who are the leading researchers in Smart Grid and Power Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Smart Grid and Power Systems include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k 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 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  8. 8 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Smart Grid and Power Systems?

The most cited paper in Smart Grid and Power Systems is "A review on the forecasting of wind speed and generated power" (Lei Ma, Luan Shiyan, Jiang Chuanwen et al., 2008), with 1,165 citations. Next come "Security Technology for Smart Grid Networks" (615) and "Review on the research and practice of deep learning and reinforcement learning in smart grids" (564).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A review on the forecasting of wind speed and generated power Lei Ma, Luan Shiyan, Jiang Chuanwen et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 7 Mar 2008 1,165
2 Security Technology for Smart Grid Networks Anthony R. Metke, Randy L. Ekl · IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 12 May 2010 615
3 Review on the research and practice of deep learning and reinforcement learning in smart grids Dongxia Zhang, Xiaoqing Han, Chunyu Deng · CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems Open access 24 Sep 2018 564
4 Deep belief network based deterministic and probabilistic wind speed forecasting approach Hai‐Kun Wang, G.B. Wang, Guangbo Li et al. · Applied Energy 26 Aug 2016 496
5 Power System Static-State Estimation, Part II: Approximate Model Fred C. Schweppe, Douglas B. Rom · IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems 1970 467
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Smart Grid and Power Systems research done?

The largest centres of Smart Grid and Power Systems 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 1.1k works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 424 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 413 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 288 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 140 works
  6. 6 JinanChina 130 works
  7. 7 Beijing 121 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 120 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 100 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 97 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaishanCN · 32.4 works171×
  2. Beijing121.1 works58×
  3. YangpuCN · 37.7 works39×
  4. Palo AltoUS · 49.6 works27×
  5. GurgaonIN · 58.2 works27×
  6. Jilin CityCN · 40.3 works23×
  7. HohhotCN · 92.0 works21×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Smart Grid and Power Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Smart Grid and Power Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Northeast Electric Power University, North China Electric Power 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%10%20%mean 16.02%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Electric P…Tianjin UniversityTsinghua UniversityNorth 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
1Northeast Electric Power UniversityChina 71.520.1%60.1×37 +238.4%
2North China Electric Power UniversityChina 68.98.5%80.5×252 +32.8%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 66.813.1%4.7×51 +95.2%
4Tianjin UniversityChina 66.714.5%6.4×37 +120.3%
5Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.720.0%4.5×38 +117.3%
6Chongqing UniversityChina 65.222.4%6.1×31 +110.5%
7Hefei University of TechnologyChina 64.822.2%7.6×20 +131.6%
8Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 63.813.5%7.5×61 +155.4%
9Southeast UniversityChina 62.615.3%6.7×46 +157.8%
10Shandong UniversityChina 61.110.6%8.6×53 +104.6%

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 Smart Grid and Power Systems, country by country

Is Smart Grid and Power Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 136% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Smart Grid and Power Systems.

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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 Smart Grid and Power Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Smart Grid and Power Systems0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Smart Grid and Power Systems 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%Smart Grid and Power Systems9.6% 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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