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Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology

Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 7.2k research works in it since 1950. 22.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the technology, applications, and challenges of ultra-wideband (UWB) communications, including wireless multiple-access, propagation channel modeling, time-hopping impulse radio, and performance evaluation of UWB systems in various environments.

  • Ultra-Wideband
  • Communications
  • Wireless
  • Multiple-Access
  • Propagation Channels
  • Channel Modeling
  • Time-Hopping
  • Impulse Radio
  • Performance Evaluation
  • UWB Systems
Research works
7.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-35%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (241 and 89 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 241 works
  2. 2 India 89 works
  3. 3 United States 55 works
  4. 4 South Korea 28 works
  5. 5 Russia 27 works
  6. 6 Germany 24 works
  7. 7 Japan 14 works
  8. 8 Austria 14 works
  9. 9 France 13 works
  10. 10 Italy 13 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: 46.5%India: 17.2%United States: 10.5%South Korea: 5.4%6 others listed: 20.3%47%largest
China241 · 46.5%India89 · 17.2%United States55 · 10.5%South Korea28 · 5.4%6 others listed105 · 20.3%

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

Which institutions lead Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research, followed by Beijing Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 12 works
  2. 2 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 8 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 7 works
  4. 4 Southeast UniversityChina 7 works
  5. 5 Xidian UniversityChina 6 works
  6. 6 Ghent UniversityBelgium 6 works
  7. 7 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 6 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 5 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 5 works
  10. 10 Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology include H. Vincent Poor, Guanrong Chen and Xuemin Shen.

  1. 1 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
  2. 2 Guanrong Chen Hong Kong 5.4k citations
  3. 3 Xuemin Shen Canada 5.1k citations
  4. 4 Georgios B. Giannakis United States 4.6k citations
  5. 5 Andreas F. Molisch United States 4.3k citations
  6. 6 Marco Di Renzo France 3.6k citations
  7. 7 Robert Schober Germany 3.5k citations
  8. 8 George K. Karagiannidis Greece 3k citations
  9. 9 Moe Z. Win United States 2.9k citations
  10. 10 Giuseppe Caire Germany 2.5k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research done?

The largest centres of Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Chengdu (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 54 works
  2. 2 Nanjing China 20 works
  3. 3 Chengdu China 19 works
  4. 4 Xi'an China 18 works
  5. 5 Seoul South Korea 16 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 14 works
  7. 7 Moscow Russia 10 works
  8. 8 Wuhan China 10 works
  9. 9 Changsha China 9 works
  10. 10 Chennai India 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BeijingCN · 54.0 works2.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Institute of Technology and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 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.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 45.014.2%10.1×8 -5.7%
2 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 30.010.7%15.6×12 -29.9%

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 Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2006.

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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.

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.