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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. 10.0% 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%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+58%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies

Which countries lead Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (971 and 320 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 971 works
  2. 2 India 320 works
  3. 3 United States 239 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 196 works
  5. 5 Japan 169 works
  6. 6 South Korea 153 works
  7. 7 Germany 104 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 88 works
  9. 9 Russia 82 works
  10. 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.

China: 40.5%India: 13.4%United States: 10.0%Indonesia: 8.2%6 others listed: 28.0%40%largest
China971 · 40.5%India320 · 13.4%United States239 · 10.0%Indonesia196 · 8.2%6 others listed673 · 28.0%

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

Which institutions lead Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, 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-now

  1. 1 Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteSouth Korea 52 works
  2. 2 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 51 works
  3. 3 China Telecom (China)China 38 works
  4. 4 China Mobile (China)China 36 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 34 works
  6. 6 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 32 works
  7. 7 China Telecom 32 works
  8. 8 China United Network Communications Group (China)China 29 works
  9. 9 NTT (Japan)Japan 26 works
  10. 10 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies include Qiang Zhang, H. Vincent Poor and Alan Conrad Bovik.

  1. 1 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Alan Conrad Bovik United States 150k citations
  4. 4 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 Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies?

The most cited paper in Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies is "Empirical formula for propagation loss in land mobile radio services" (Masayuki Hata, 1980), with 2,803 citations. Next come "Latency Critical IoT Applications in 5G: Perspective on the Design of Radio Interface and Network Architecture" (852) and "COFDM: an overview" (809).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Empirical formula for propagation loss in land mobile radio services Masayuki Hata · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Aug 1980 2,803
2 Latency Critical IoT Applications in 5G: Perspective on the Design of Radio Interface and Network Architecture Philipp Schulz, Maximilian Matthé, Henrik Klessig et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine Feb 2017 852
3 COFDM: an overview W.Y. Zou, Yiyan Wu · IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Mar 1995 809
4 Mobile Communications Jochen Schiller Open access 2000 788
5 A statistical model of urban multipath propagation G. Turin, F. D. Clapp, T.L. Johnston et al. · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Feb 1972 724
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research in 2022-now 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-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 282 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 98 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 90 works
  4. 4 DaejeonSouth Korea 62 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 57 works
  6. 6 ChangshaChina 51 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 47 works
  8. 8 BandungIndonesia 46 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 45 works
  10. 10 Beijing 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Beijing39.7 works29×
  2. DaejeonKR · 62.2 works9.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies than the world average.

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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 Southeast 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%20%40%mean 18.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Moscow Technical Uni…Aalborg UniversityBeijing University o…Southeast University
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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
1Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 68.613.0%26.0×51 +50.4%
2Moscow Technical University of Communication and InformaticsRussia 63.733.4%75.9×10 +50.7%
3Southeast UniversityChina 62.012.5%7.4×34 +452.3%
4Aalborg UniversityDenmark 61.025.8%5.8×10 +110.8%
5University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 50.218.5%4.9×17 +144.5%
6Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 49.811.3%10.0×19 +41.6%
7Xidian UniversityChina 48.514.5%7.2×16 +165.2%
8Tsinghua UniversityChina 45.315.1%2.1×15 +29.4%
9Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 44.725.8%2.4×9 +82.8%
10Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 41.517.2%3.2×10 +118.5%

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 Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies, country by country

Is Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 58% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Telecommunications and Broadcasting 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 Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Telecommunications and Broadcasting 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%Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies9.9% 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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