Smart Grid Security and Resilience
Smart Grid Security and Resilience is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 20.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the security challenges in smart grid systems, including cyber-physical attacks, false data injection attacks, communication network vulnerabilities, SCADA system security, privacy concerns, and detection of various types of attacks such as denial-of-service attacks. The papers also explore the application of machine learning for attack detection and mitigation.
- Smart Grid
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Security
- False Data Injection Attacks
- Communication Networks
- SCADA Systems
- Privacy
- Attack Detection
- Denial-of-Service Attacks
- Machine Learning
- Research works
- 30k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 6.1k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 20.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +74% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Smart Grid Security and Resilience research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.3k and 1.6k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 3.3k works
- 2 United States 1.6k works
- 3 India 1.6k works
- 4 Germany 331 works
- 5 United Kingdom 321 works
- 6 Canada 286 works
- 7 Italy 257 works
- 8 Iran 215 works
- 9 Saudi Arabia 185 works
- 10 France 180 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Smart Grid Security and Resilience research?
By volume in 2022–2025, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Smart Grid Security and Resilience research, followed by China Southern Power Grid (China) and Shanghai Electric (China).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 140 works
- 2 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 124 works
- 3 Shanghai Electric (China)China 96 works
- 4 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 86 works
- 5 Northeastern UniversityChina 81 works
- 6 Southeast UniversityChina 71 works
- 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 50 works
- 8 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 49 works
- 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 48 works
- 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 48 works
Who are the leading researchers in Smart Grid Security and Resilience?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Smart Grid Security and Resilience include Frede Blaabjerg, H. Vincent Poor and Rui Zhang.
- 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 12k citations
- 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
- 3 Rui Zhang Singapore 6k citations
- 4 Josep M. Guerrero Denmark 5.6k citations
- 5 Guanrong Chen Hong Kong 5.4k citations
- 6 Xuemin Shen Canada 5.1k citations
- 7 Peng Shi Australia 5k citations
- 8 Zhu Han United States 4.7k citations
- 9 Zidong Wang United Kingdom 4.4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Smart Grid Security and Resilience research done?
The largest centres of Smart Grid Security and Resilience research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Beijing43.5 works9.3×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Smart Grid Security and Resilience than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Smart Grid Security and Resilience?
Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Concordia University and Singapore University of Technology and Design 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 68.9 | 29.1% | 10.3× | 49 | +828.5% |
| 2 | Concordia UniversityCanada | 68.4 | 26.3% | 11.8× | 39 | +318.1% |
| 3 | Singapore University of Technology and DesignSingapore | 67.1 | 30.9% | 13.4× | 14 | +608.0% |
| 4 | Northeastern UniversityChina | 65.6 | 24.9% | 8.3× | 81 | +625.9% |
| 5 | Florida International UniversityUnited States | 62.6 | 32.4% | 8.2× | 26 | +662.6% |
| 6 | Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore | 61.5 | 35.5% | 4.3× | 38 | +215.6% |
| 7 | Amirkabir University of TechnologyIran | 58.2 | 25.3% | 8.2× | 23 | +199.3% |
| 8 | Tennessee Technological UniversityUnited States | 56.7 | 39.3% | 26.0× | 14 | +50.2% |
| 9 | Bohai UniversityChina | 55.6 | 45.9% | 9.5× | 11 | — |
| 10 | Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia | 55.4 | 25.6% | 6.3× | 37 | +1016.3% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Smart Grid Security and Resilience research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 74% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Smart Grid Security and Resilience.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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