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Solar Energy Systems and Technologies

Solar Energy Systems and Technologies is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 7.1k research works in it since 1951. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the design, performance, and optimization of solar chimney systems for power generation, natural ventilation, and building integration. It covers topics such as thermal and technical analyses, numerical simulations, experimental investigations, Trombe walls, geometric parameters, and energy performance.

  • Solar Chimneys
  • Trombe Walls
  • Natural Ventilation
  • Thermal Analysis
  • Power Generation
  • Numerical Simulation
  • Experimental Investigation
  • Geometric Parameters
  • Energy Performance
  • Building Integration
Research works
7.1k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
720
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Solar Energy Systems and Technologies

Which countries lead Solar Energy Systems and Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (563 and 266 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 563 works
  2. 2 India 266 works
  3. 3 United States 113 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 106 works
  5. 5 Iraq 100 works
  6. 6 Iran 86 works
  7. 7 Italy 66 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 63 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 58 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 57 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: 38.1%India: 18.0%United States: 7.7%Türkiye: 7.1%6 others listed: 29.1%38%largest
China563 · 38.1%India266 · 18.0%United States113 · 7.7%Türkiye106 · 7.1%6 others listed429 · 29.1%

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

Which institutions lead Solar Energy Systems and Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Solar Energy Systems and Technologies research, followed by Northern Technical University and Chongqing University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 18 works
  2. 2 Northern Technical UniversityIraq 17 works
  3. 3 Chongqing UniversityChina 15 works
  4. 4 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 15 works
  5. 5 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 15 works
  6. 6 University of Technology - IraqIraq 14 works
  7. 7 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 13 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 12 works
  9. 9 Southeast UniversityChina 12 works
  10. 10 Tongji UniversityChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Solar Energy Systems and Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Solar Energy Systems and Technologies include Tasawar Hayat, Jing Li and Hao Chen.

  1. 1 Tasawar Hayat Pakistan 135k citations
  2. 2 Jing Li United States 120k citations
  3. 3 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  4. 4 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 111k citations
  5. 5 Dumitru Bǎleanu Türkiye 89k 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 Solar Energy Systems and Technologies?

The most cited paper in Solar Energy Systems and Technologies is "A review of solar collectors and thermal energy storage in solar thermal applications" (Yuan Tian, Chunyu Zhao, 2012), with 1,780 citations. Next come "A Review on Nanofluids: Preparation, Stability Mechanisms, and Applications" (1,775) and "Passive building energy savings: A review of building envelope components" (1,435).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A review of solar collectors and thermal energy storage in solar thermal applications Yuan Tian, Chunyu Zhao · Applied Energy Open access 23 Dec 2012 1,780
2 A Review on Nanofluids: Preparation, Stability Mechanisms, and Applications Wei Yu, Huaqing Xie · Journal of Nanomaterials Open access 28 Sep 2011 1,775
3 Passive building energy savings: A review of building envelope components Suresh B. Sadineni, Srikanth Madala, Robert F. Boehm · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2 Aug 2011 1,435
4 Solar energy storage using phase change materials☆ Murat M. Kenisarin, K. Mahkamov · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 29 Jun 2006 1,377
5 Review on sustainable thermal energy storage technologies, Part I: heat storage materials and techniques Syed Mahmood Hasnain · Energy Conversion and Management Aug 1998 1,260
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Solar Energy Systems and Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Solar Energy Systems and Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Baghdad (Iraq), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Baghdad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 92 works
  2. 2 BaghdadIraq 41 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 36 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 34 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 33 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 31 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 28 works
  8. 8 HefeiChina 23 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 21 works
  10. 10 ChongqingChina 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaghdadIQ · 40.8 works8.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Solar Energy Systems and Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Solar Energy Systems and Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology of China, Northern Technical University and Chongqing 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
1University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 81.619.0%5.7×15 +107.4%
2Northern Technical UniversityIraq 81.014.6%103.2×17 +247.1%
3Chongqing UniversityChina 77.316.3%6.5×16 +66.1%
4King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 76.321.1%12.5×10 +207.5%
5Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 66.713.9%4.2×15 +26.7%
6University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom 64.317.3%5.7×10 +64.8%
7Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 62.813.8%3.2×12 +17.4%
8University of Technology - IraqIraq 59.67.1%28.3×14 +163.4%
9North China Electric Power UniversityChina 55.120.0%7.5×11 +1.2%
10Tongji UniversityChina 52.711.9%3.5×12 +160.8%

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 Solar Energy Systems and Technologies, country by country

Is Solar Energy Systems and Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Solar Energy Systems and Technologies.

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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 Solar Energy Systems and Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0084% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Solar Energy Systems and Technologies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Solar Energy Systems and Technologies 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%Solar Energy Systems and Technologies10.3% 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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