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Smart Grid Energy Management

Smart Grid Energy Management is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 60k 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 demand response in smart grids, exploring topics such as energy management, electricity markets, real-time pricing, renewable energy integration, and the use of game theory for optimizing load control in smart homes. It also covers the application of demand response to achieve controllability of electric loads and the potential of peer-to-peer energy trading in microgrids.

  • Demand Response
  • Smart Grid
  • Energy Management
  • Electricity Markets
  • Renewable Energy
  • Real-Time Pricing
  • Home Energy
  • Smart Home
  • Game Theory
  • Load Control
Research works
60k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Smart Grid Energy Management

Which countries lead Smart Grid Energy Management research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (6.1k and 2.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 6.1k works
  2. 2 India 2.7k works
  3. 3 United States 1.8k works
  4. 4 Germany 636 works
  5. 5 Iran 633 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 591 works
  7. 7 Italy 559 works
  8. 8 Australia 426 works
  9. 9 Spain 416 works
  10. 10 Canada 349 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: 42.8%India: 18.9%United States: 12.9%Germany: 4.5%6 others listed: 20.9%43%largest
China6,085 · 42.8%India2,687 · 18.9%United States1,840 · 12.9%Germany636 · 4.5%6 others listed2,974 · 20.9%

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

Which institutions lead Smart Grid Energy Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, North China Electric Power University publishes the most Smart Grid Energy Management research, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (China) and Shanghai Electric (China).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 356 works
  2. 2 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 352 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Electric (China)China 222 works
  4. 4 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 191 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 166 works
  6. 6 Southeast UniversityChina 148 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 139 works
  8. 8 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 134 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 133 works
  10. 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 127 works

Who are the leading researchers in Smart Grid Energy Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Smart Grid Energy Management include Wei Huang, Yi Ping Cui and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 Michael I. Jordan United States 182k citations
  7. 7 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  8. 8 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  9. 9 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Energy Management?

The most cited paper in Smart Grid Energy Management is "A New Heuristic Optimization Algorithm: Harmony Search" (Zong Woo Geem, Joong Hoon Kim, G. V. Loganathan, 2001), with 6,288 citations. Next come "Hierarchical Control of Droop-Controlled AC and DC Microgrids—A General Approach Toward Standardization" (5,048) and "Smart Grid — The New and Improved Power Grid: A Survey" (3,411).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A New Heuristic Optimization Algorithm: Harmony Search Zong Woo Geem, Joong Hoon Kim, G. V. Loganathan · SIMULATION Feb 2001 6,288
2 Hierarchical Control of Droop-Controlled AC and DC Microgrids—A General Approach Toward Standardization Josep Maria Guerrero, Juan C. Vásquez, J. Matas et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 18 Aug 2010 5,048
3 Smart Grid — The New and Improved Power Grid: A Survey Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 12 Dec 2011 3,411
4 Nonintrusive appliance load monitoring George W. Hart · Proceedings of the IEEE 1992 3,179
5 Trends in Microgrid Control Daniel E. Olivares, Ali Mehrizi‐Sani, Amir H. Etemadi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Open access 20 May 2014 3,081
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Where is Smart Grid Energy Management research done?

The largest centres of Smart Grid Energy Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Baishan, Yangpu and Vaasa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.2k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 547 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 458 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 369 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 260 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 248 works
  7. 7 ChennaiIndia 223 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 221 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 220 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 204 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaishanCN · 22.5 works30×
  2. YangpuCN · 78.3 works21×
  3. VaasaFI · 25.4 works20×
  4. AswānEG · 24.4 works15×
  5. GoldenUS · 70.7 works14×
  6. LappeenrantaFI · 30.4 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Smart Grid Energy Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Smart Grid Energy Management?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Macau, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and King Abdulaziz University score highest, combining citation 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 25.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Abdulaziz Unive…University of MacauCity University of M…Hong Kong Polytechni…
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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.

Citation 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
1City University of MacauChina 70.226.2%7.2×20 +464.7%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 70.021.0%4.0×63 +71.8%
3King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 69.428.7%2.5×25 +50.1%
4University of MacauChina 67.627.4%3.2×19 +72.5%
5North China Electric Power UniversityChina 67.113.6%29.1×356 +20.1%
6Universidad de JaénSpain 64.927.3%9.3×27 +76.3%
7Concordia UniversityCanada 62.824.7%5.3×29 +60.4%
8Khalifa University of Science and TechnologyUnited Arab Emirates 62.624.6%5.7×25 +56.8%
9Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 62.531.8%1.8×13 +184.9%
10Northumbria UniversityUnited Kingdom 62.532.2%3.3×13 +23.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Energy Management, country by country

Is Smart Grid Energy Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Smart Grid Energy Management.

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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 Energy Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.091% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Smart Grid Energy Management0.090% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Smart Grid Energy Management 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 Energy Management9.8% 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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Who leads smart grid research?

By volume in 2022-now, North China Electric Power University publishes the most Smart Grid Energy Management research, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (China) and Shanghai Electric (China). By volume, China and India publish the most (6.1k and 2.7k works in 2022-now).

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