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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. 9.9% 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%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+73%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Smart Grid Security and Resilience

Which countries lead Smart Grid Security and Resilience research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.9k and 1.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.9k works
  2. 2 India 1.9k works
  3. 3 United States 1.8k works
  4. 4 Germany 376 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 375 works
  6. 6 Canada 317 works
  7. 7 Italy 287 works
  8. 8 Iran 238 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 226 works
  10. 10 Australia 208 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: 40.6%India: 19.4%United States: 18.9%Germany: 3.9%6 others listed: 17.2%41%largest
China3,895 · 40.6%India1,864 · 19.4%United States1,818 · 18.9%Germany376 · 3.9%6 others listed1,651 · 17.2%

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

Which institutions lead Smart Grid Security and Resilience research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Smart Grid Security and Resilience research, followed by China Southern Power Grid (China) and Northeastern University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 195 works
  2. 2 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 139 works
  3. 3 Northeastern UniversityChina 111 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Electric (China)China 106 works
  5. 5 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 98 works
  6. 6 Southeast UniversityChina 83 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 70 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 58 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 57 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 53 works

Who are the leading researchers in Smart Grid Security and Resilience?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Smart Grid Security and Resilience include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k 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 Security and Resilience?

The most cited paper in Smart Grid Security and Resilience is "A Cyber-Physical Systems architecture for Industry 4.0-based manufacturing systems" (Jay K. Lee, Behrad Bagheri, Hung-An Kao, 2014), with 5,033 citations. Next come "Smart Grid — The New and Improved Power Grid: A Survey" (3,411) and "Demand Side Management: Demand Response, Intelligent Energy Systems, and Smart Loads" (2,923).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Cyber-Physical Systems architecture for Industry 4.0-based manufacturing systems Jay K. Lee, Behrad Bagheri, Hung-An Kao · Manufacturing Letters 10 Dec 2014 5,033
2 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
3 Demand Side Management: Demand Response, Intelligent Energy Systems, and Smart Loads Peter Pálenský, Dietmar Dietrich · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 29 Jun 2011 2,923
4 The path of the smart grid Hassan Farhangi · IEEE Power and Energy Magazine 2010 2,856
5 Identifying, understanding, and analyzing critical infrastructure interdependencies Steven M. Rinaldi, James P. Peerenboom, Terrence Kelly · IEEE Control Systems Dec 2001 2,844
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Where is Smart Grid Security and Resilience research done?

The largest centres of Smart Grid Security and Resilience research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 754 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 331 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 326 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 244 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 182 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 154 works
  7. 7 ShenyangChina 131 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 130 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 127 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 125 works
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Where is the best place to study Smart Grid Security and Resilience?

Among universities, judged by research, Northeastern University, Nanyang Technological University and King Abdulaziz 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.

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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
1Northeastern UniversityChina 72.817.5%10.8×111 +68.6%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 71.426.0%4.5×41 +40.8%
3King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 69.132.2%3.3×20 +145.9%
4Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 65.918.7%11.8×58 +54.7%
5Southeast UniversityChina 64.517.8%4.9×83 +107.1%
6Yeungnam UniversitySouth Korea 63.035.9%3.2×8 +188.9%
7Bohai UniversityChina 62.336.7%12.6×15 -
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 61.517.6%2.3×70 +62.3%
9Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 61.032.0%3.2×10 +65.2%
10City University of Hong KongChina 60.724.1%2.5×16 +57.6%

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 Security and Resilience, country by country

Is Smart Grid Security and Resilience research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 73% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Smart Grid Security and Resilience.

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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 Security and Resilience as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.057% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Smart Grid Security and Resilience0.070% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Smart Grid Security and Resilience 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 Security and Resilience9.7% 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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