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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. 10.0% 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%
726
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology

Which countries lead Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (322 and 109 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 322 works
  2. 2 India 109 works
  3. 3 United States 64 works
  4. 4 Russia 33 works
  5. 5 South Korea 33 works
  6. 6 Germany 28 works
  7. 7 Japan 22 works
  8. 8 Italy 17 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 16 works
  10. 10 Canada 16 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: 48.8%India: 16.5%United States: 9.7%Russia: 5.1%6 others listed: 19.9%49%largest
China322 · 48.8%India109 · 16.5%United States64 · 9.7%Russia33 · 5.1%6 others listed131 · 19.9%

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

Which institutions lead Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 15 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 12 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 12 works
  4. 4 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 11 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 10 works
  6. 6 Xidian UniversityChina 9 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 9 works
  8. 8 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 8 works
  9. 9 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 6 works
  10. 10 Ghent UniversityBelgium 6 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, Lirong Zheng and Guanrong Chen.

  1. 1 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  2. 2 Lirong Zheng China 120k citations
  3. 3 Guanrong Chen China 116k citations
  4. 4 Ian Fuat Akyildiz United States 110k citations
  5. 5 Gang Chen United States 107k citations
  6. 6 Xuemin Shen Canada 104k 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 Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology?

The most cited paper in Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology is "Ultra-wide bandwidth time-hopping spread-spectrum impulse radio for wireless multiple-access communications" (Moe Z. Win, R.A. Scholtz, 2000), with 2,541 citations. Next come "Impulse radio: how it works" (2,211) and "Localization via ultra-wideband radios: a look at positioning aspects for future sensor networks" (2,083).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ultra-wide bandwidth time-hopping spread-spectrum impulse radio for wireless multiple-access communications Moe Z. Win, R.A. Scholtz · IEEE Transactions on Communications Apr 2000 2,541
2 Impulse radio: how it works Moe Z. Win, R.A. Scholtz · IEEE Communications Letters Feb 1998 2,211
3 Localization via ultra-wideband radios: a look at positioning aspects for future sensor networks Sinan Gezici, Zhi Tian, Georgios B. Giannakis et al. · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 28 Jun 2005 2,083
4 Optimization algorithm for the generation of ONCV pseudopotentials Martin Schlipf, François Gygi · Computer Physics Communications Open access 29 May 2015 1,334
5 Ultra-wideband communications - An idea whose time has come Liuqing Yang, Georgios B. Giannakis · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Nov 2004 1,220
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 71 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 26 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 25 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 24 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 18 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 18 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 13 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 12 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 12 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChengduCN · 24.1 works4.2×
  2. Xi'anCN · 25.8 works3.8×
  3. NanjingCN · 25.3 works3.0×
← 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, Southeast University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Xidian 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%mean 11.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southeast UniversityTsinghua UniversityXidian UniversityUniversity of Electr…
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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
1Southeast UniversityChina 80.918.4%9.2×10 +165.1%
2University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 58.86.3%17.5×15 +0.2%
3Xidian UniversityChina 56.68.6%17.0×10 +43.9%
4Tsinghua UniversityChina 51.113.1%5.1×9 +123.2%
5Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 38.34.8%11.8×11 +197.2%
6National University of Defense TechnologyChina 33.815.4%13.8×8 -22.2%

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 Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology, country by country

Is Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2006. The fastest-growing topics are Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology.

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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 Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0032% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology 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%Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology10.1% 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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