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Technology and Security Systems

Technology and Security Systems is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1955. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the applications and technologies related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data, including data security, deep learning, wireless communication, smart grid, sensor networks, cloud computing, machine learning, and industrial IoT.

  • Internet of Things
  • Big Data
  • Data Security
  • Deep Learning
  • Wireless Communication
  • Smart Grid
  • Sensor Networks
  • Cloud Computing
  • Machine Learning
  • Industrial IoT
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+103%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
83% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Technology and Security Systems

Which countries lead Technology and Security Systems research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.5k and 126 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 126 works
  3. 3 United States 65 works
  4. 4 ?? 37 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 27 works
  6. 6 Russia 19 works
  7. 7 Japan 17 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 12 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 10 works
  10. 10 South Korea 8 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: 82.8%India: 6.7%United States: 3.5%??: 2.0%6 others listed: 5.0%83%largest
China1,546 · 82.8%India126 · 6.7%United States65 · 3.5%??37 · 2.0%6 others listed93 · 5.0%

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

Which institutions lead Technology and Security Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, State Grid Corporation of China (China) publishes the most Technology and Security Systems research, followed by China Southern Power Grid (China) and Shanghai Electric (China).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 94 works
  2. 2 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 79 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Electric (China)China 60 works
  4. 4 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 28 works
  5. 5 NARI Group (China)China 25 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  7. 7 Guizhou Electric Power Design and Research InstituteChina 18 works
  8. 8 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 16 works
  9. 9 Power Grid Corporation (India)India 16 works
  10. 10 Inner Mongolia Electric Power (China)China 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Technology and Security Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Technology and Security Systems include Qiang Zhang, Hao Chen and Rui Zhang.

  1. 1 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  2. 2 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  3. 3 Rui Zhang Singapore 115k 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 Technology and Security Systems?

The most cited paper in Technology and Security Systems is "Research on the architecture of Internet of Things" (Miao Wu, Tingjie Lu, Fei-Yang Ling et al., 2010), with 630 citations. Next come "Cloud Computing Research and Development Trend" (415) and "Towards the Internet of Smart Trains: A Review on Industrial IoT-Connected Railways" (271).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Research on the architecture of Internet of Things Miao Wu, Tingjie Lu, Fei-Yang Ling et al. Conference paper Aug 2010 630
2 Cloud Computing Research and Development Trend Shuai Zhang, Shufen Zhang, Xuebin Chen et al. Conference paper 2010 415
3 Towards the Internet of Smart Trains: A Review on Industrial IoT-Connected Railways Paula Fraga‐Lamas, Tiago M. Fernández‐Caramés, Luis Castedo · Sensors Open access 21 Jun 2017 271
4 Rapid Detection of Rice Disease Based on FCM-KM and Faster R-CNN Fusion Guoxiong Zhou, Wenzhuo Zhang, Aibin Chen et al. · IEEE Access Open access 2019 256
5 A Recognition Method for Rice Plant Diseases and Pests Video Detection Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network Dengshan Li, Rujing Wang, Chengjun Xie et al. · Sensors Open access 21 Jan 2020 255
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Technology and Security Systems research done?

The largest centres of Technology and Security Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hohhot.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 367 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 113 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 109 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 76 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 61 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 57 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 42 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 39 works
  9. 9 JinanChina 36 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HohhotCN · 22.4 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Technology and Security Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, North China Electric Power University, Xi'an University of Science and Technology and China Agricultural 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 15.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xi'an University of …China University of …China Agricultural U…North China Electric…
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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
1North China Electric Power UniversityChina 73.310.3%25.0×28 +10.0%
2Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 62.027.0%23.0×9 +74.1%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 60.421.8%9.5×9 +212.1%
4China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 57.622.0%8.5×11 -7.0%
5Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 56.322.0%3.2×9 +406.8%
6Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 54.36.9%15.8×16 +201.9%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 53.514.5%2.4×9 +157.2%
8Southeast UniversityChina 39.812.4%3.2×8 +140.4%
9Tianjin University of TechnologyChina 37.46.3%22.7×10 +305.1%
10Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 22.07.3%7.0×9 -10.9%

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 Technology and Security Systems, country by country

Is Technology and Security Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 103% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Technology and Security Systems.

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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 Technology and Security Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Technology and Security Systems0.0096% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Technology and Security Systems 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%Technology and Security Systems10.1% in 202520102020

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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