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Space Technology and Applications

Space Technology and Applications is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 3k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to advancements in microelectronics and nanotechnologies, including SpaceWire communication, proton microscopy, high-energy electron imaging, smart dust, system integration, and spacecraft networks. The papers discuss the challenges and innovations in these fields, reflecting the ongoing research and development in the digital age.

  • Microelectronics
  • Nanotechnologies
  • SpaceWire
  • Radiography
  • Proton Microscope
  • High-Energy Electron Imaging
  • Smart Dust
  • System Integration
  • Spacecraft Networks
  • Digital Age
Research works
3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
299
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Space Technology and Applications

Which countries lead Space Technology and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (124 and 115 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 124 works
  2. 2 China 115 works
  3. 3 Germany 32 works
  4. 4 France 29 works
  5. 5 Italy 28 works
  6. 6 Russia 26 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 25 works
  8. 8 India 24 works
  9. 9 Japan 13 works
  10. 10 Spain 11 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.

United States: 29.0%China: 27.0%Germany: 7.5%France: 6.8%6 others listed: 29.6%29%largest
United States124 · 29.0%China115 · 27.0%Germany32 · 7.5%France29 · 6.8%6 others listed127 · 29.6%

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

Which institutions lead Space Technology and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Space Technology and Applications research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 8 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 8 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 7 works
  5. 5 National Institute for AstrophysicsItaly 7 works
  6. 6 China Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationChina 6 works
  7. 7 Department of SpaceIndia 4 works
  8. 8 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States 4 works
  9. 9 George Enescu University of Arts of IașiRomania 4 works
  10. 10 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Space Technology and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Space Technology and Applications include David J. Schlegel, Daniel J. Eisenstein and S. Tosi.

  1. 1 David J. Schlegel United States 149k citations
  2. 2 Daniel J. Eisenstein United States 134k citations
  3. 3 S. Tosi France 126k citations
  4. 4 M. Frailis France 120k 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 Space Technology and Applications?

The most cited paper in Space Technology and Applications is "Reverberation Measurements for 17 Quasars and the Size‐Mass‐Luminosity Relations in Active Galactic Nuclei" (Shai Kaspi, Paul S. Smith, Hagai Netzer et al., 2000), with 1,971 citations. Next come "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies" (1,690) and "The environmental dependence of the relations between stellar mass, structure, star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies" (1,309).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reverberation Measurements for 17 Quasars and the Size‐Mass‐Luminosity Relations in Active Galactic Nuclei Shai Kaspi, Paul S. Smith, Hagai Netzer et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 20 Apr 2000 1,971
2 The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Xiaojing Dong, Shelby H. McIntyre · Quantitative Finance 11 Aug 2014 1,690
3 The environmental dependence of the relations between stellar mass, structure, star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White, Timothy M. Heckman et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 23 Aug 2004 1,309
4 UV LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS AT REDSHIFTS z ∼ 4 TO z ∼ 10: 10,000 GALAXIES FROM HST LEGACY FIELDS R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. A. Oesch et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 13 Apr 2015 1,250
5 The computer for the 21 st century Mark Weiser · ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review Jul 1999 1,218
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Where is Space Technology and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Space Technology and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Moscow (Russia) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 37 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 12 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 12 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 10 works
  5. 5 BengaluruIndia 8 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 8 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 7 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 6 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 6 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 5 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BeijingCN · 36.6 works2.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Space Technology and Applications than the world average.

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Is Space Technology and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Space Technology and Applications.

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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 Space Technology and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Space Technology and Applications 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.

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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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