Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies
Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies is a research topic within Media Technology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the integration of 5G networks with broadcasting systems, including technologies such as Layered Division Multiplexing, ATSC 3.0, LTE, SDR, SDN, Massive MIMO, and Cloud Transmission. It also explores spectrum coexistence and optimization for efficient point-to-multipoint transmissions.
- 5G
- Broadcasting
- Layered Division Multiplexing
- ATSC 3.0
- LTE
- SDR
- SDN
- Massive MIMO
- Cloud Transmission
- Spectrum Coexistence
- Research works
- 12k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 1.3k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.7% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +41% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (914 and 309 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 914 works
- 2 India 309 works
- 3 United States 222 works
- 4 Indonesia 191 works
- 5 Japan 165 works
- 6 South Korea 150 works
- 7 Germany 100 works
- 8 United Kingdom 84 works
- 9 Russia 79 works
- 10 ?? 77 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute publishes the most Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research, followed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and China Telecom (China).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute South Korea 51 works
- 2 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China 47 works
- 3 China Telecom (China) China 38 works
- 4 China Mobile (China) China 35 works
- 5 China Telecom ?? 31 works
- 6 Telkom University Indonesia 30 works
- 7 Southeast University China 30 works
- 8 China United Network Communications Group (China) China 28 works
- 9 NTT (Japan) Japan 25 works
- 10 Beijing Jiaotong University China 17 works
Who are the leading researchers in Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies include Mohamed‐Slim Alouini, Zhu Han and Dusit Niyato.
- 1 Mohamed‐Slim Alouini 5.9k citations
- 2 Zhu Han 4.7k citations
- 3 Dusit Niyato 4.5k citations
- 4 Andreas F. Molisch 4.3k citations
- 5 Theodore S. Rappaport 3.7k citations
- 6 Marco Di Renzo 3.6k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research done?
The largest centres of Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Nanjing (China) and Daejeon (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing and Daejeon.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Beijing39.6 works28×
- DaejeonKR · 61.8 works10×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies?
Among universities, judged by research, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics and Aalborg 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China | 66.2 | 17.1% | 23.0× | 47 | -8.4% |
| 2 | Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics Russia | 63.0 | 29.5% | 65.2× | 9 | — |
| 3 | Aalborg University Denmark | 59.0 | 23.4% | 5.9× | 10 | +117.0% |
| 4 | Telkom University Indonesia | 55.0 | 0.0% | 17.4× | 30 | +791.8% |
| 5 | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications China | 47.3 | 17.6% | 7.9× | 11 | +24.4% |
| 6 | Southeast University China | 45.8 | 8.0% | 6.7× | 30 | +0.4% |
| 7 | Beijing Jiaotong University China | 44.1 | 7.2% | 8.6× | 18 | +29.8% |
| 8 | Waseda University Japan | 40.4 | 12.2% | 7.8× | 9 | +17.7% |
| 9 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China | 39.7 | 17.7% | 4.5× | 17 | -25.2% |
| 10 | Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications Russia | 38.7 | 0.0% | 172.9× | 14 | — |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 41% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.