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Technology Assessment and Management

Technology Assessment and Management is a research topic within Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment, evaluation, and improvement of technology readiness levels, system maturity, and innovation commercialization. It also addresses topics such as defense acquisition, integration readiness, risk assessment, product development, commercial potential evaluation, maturity assessment, and technology transfer.

  • Technology Readiness Levels
  • System Maturity
  • Innovation Commercialization
  • Defense Acquisition
  • Integration Readiness
  • Risk Assessment
  • Product Development
  • Commercial Potential
  • Maturity Assessment
  • Technology Transfer
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Technology Assessment and Management

Which countries lead Technology Assessment and Management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (756 and 742 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 756 works
  2. 2 United States 742 works
  3. 3 Russia 427 works
  4. 4 Germany 233 works
  5. 5 Ukraine 167 works
  6. 6 India 165 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 156 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 149 works
  9. 9 Brazil 144 works
  10. 10 South Korea 112 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: 24.8%United States: 24.3%Russia: 14.0%Germany: 7.6%6 others listed: 29.3%25%largest
China756 · 24.8%United States742 · 24.3%Russia427 · 14.0%Germany233 · 7.6%6 others listed893 · 29.3%

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

Which institutions lead Technology Assessment and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Technology Assessment and Management research, followed by United States Department of Defense and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 46 works
  2. 2 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 39 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 31 works
  4. 4 Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of UkraineUkraine 30 works
  5. 5 China Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationChina 27 works
  6. 6 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 24 works
  7. 7 National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnited States 23 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 20 works
  9. 9 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 19 works
  10. 10 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Technology Assessment and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Technology Assessment and Management include Richard M. Ryan, Kai You Wang and John Bannister Goodenough.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 John Bannister Goodenough United States 175k citations
  4. 4 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Assessment and Management?

The most cited paper in Technology Assessment and Management is "Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy" (DavidJ. Teece, 1993), with 7,366 citations. Next come "Digital Twin in manufacturing: A categorical literature review and classification" (3,455) and "Digital Twin: Mitigating Unpredictable, Undesirable Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems" (3,394).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy DavidJ. Teece · Research Policy Apr 1993 7,366
2 Digital Twin in manufacturing: A categorical literature review and classification Werner Kritzinger, Matthias Karner, Georg Traar et al. · IFAC-PapersOnLine Open access 2018 3,455
3 Digital Twin: Mitigating Unpredictable, Undesirable Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Michael W. Grieves, John Vickers Book chapter 16 Aug 2016 3,394
4 A Maturity Model for Assessing Industry 4.0 Readiness and Maturity of Manufacturing Enterprises Andreas Schumacher, Selim Erol, Wilfried Sihn · Procedia CIRP Open access 2016 1,733
5 Digital Twin-driven smart manufacturing: Connotation, reference model, applications and research issues Yuqian Lu, Chao Liu, Kevin I‐Kai Wang et al. · Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 8 Aug 2019 1,614
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Where is Technology Assessment and Management research done?

The largest centres of Technology Assessment and Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 209 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 198 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 76 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 65 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 51 works
  6. 6 Saint PetersburgRussia 51 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 46 works
  8. 8 BudapestHungary 41 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 41 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 34 works
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Where is the best place to study Technology Assessment and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino and Rzeszów University of Technology 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%20%40%mean 16.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Rzeszów University o…Politecnico di TorinoNorwegian University…Politecnico di Milano
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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
1Politecnico di MilanoItaly 65.813.5%4.8×14 +71.5%
2Politecnico di TorinoItaly 64.821.4%5.8×11 +281.8%
3Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 63.433.9%22.0×8 +220.4%
4Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 57.816.7%5.1×12 +7.2%
5Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 56.420.3%3.6×10 +37.2%
6Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 55.319.4%3.4×13 -4.1%
7University of TwenteNetherlands 53.511.5%7.4×9 +208.8%
8Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 53.47.8%4.2×12 +1.7%
9Beihang UniversityChina 53.016.6%3.8×17 +1.0%
10Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 51.25.6%6.1×15 +3.0%

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 Assessment and Management, country by country

Is Technology Assessment and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Technology Assessment and Management.

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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 Assessment and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Technology Assessment and Management0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Technology Assessment and Management 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 Assessment and Management10.5% 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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