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Vehicle emissions and performance

Vehicle emissions and performance is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 51k research works in it since 1950. 17.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on estimating vehicle fuel consumption and emissions, with an emphasis on real-world measurements, driving cycles, eco-driving, and the impact of traffic conditions on emission factors. The research covers a wide range of topics related to vehicle emissions, including NOx and CO2 emissions, fuel consumption, and the influence of road transport on environmental pollution.

  • Fuel Consumption
  • Eco-Driving
  • Vehicle Emissions
  • Real-World Measurements
  • Traffic Conditions
  • Driving Cycles
  • Emission Factors
  • NOx Emissions
  • CO2 Emissions
  • Road Transport
Research works
51k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
17.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+29%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Vehicle emissions and performance research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.3k and 1k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 3.3k works
  2. 2 United States 1k works
  3. 3 India 776 works
  4. 4 Germany 457 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 340 works
  6. 6 Italy 329 works
  7. 7 Poland 287 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 283 works
  9. 9 South Korea 274 works
  10. 10 France 231 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: 45.3%United States: 14.1%India: 10.6%Germany: 6.2%6 others listed: 23.8%45%largest
China3,325 · 45.3%United States1,038 · 14.1%India776 · 10.6%Germany457 · 6.2%6 others listed1,744 · 23.8%

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

Which institutions lead Vehicle emissions and performance research?

By volume in 2022–2025, China Automotive Technology and Research Center publishes the most Vehicle emissions and performance research, followed by Tongji University and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China Automotive Technology and Research CenterChina 95 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 95 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 73 works
  4. 4 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 68 works
  5. 5 Chang'an UniversityChina 62 works
  6. 6 Tianjin UniversityChina 54 works
  7. 7 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 53 works
  8. 8 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 51 works
  9. 9 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 49 works
  10. 10 Jilin UniversityChina 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vehicle emissions and performance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vehicle emissions and performance include Lídia Morawska, Philippe Ciais and Michael Bräuer.

  1. 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 6.4k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 4k citations
  3. 3 Michael Bräuer Canada 3.8k citations

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

Where is Vehicle emissions and performance research done?

The largest centres of Vehicle emissions and performance research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tianjin (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Žilina.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 748 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 316 works
  3. 3 Tianjin China 236 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 167 works
  5. 5 Xi'an China 146 works
  6. 6 Wuhan China 137 works
  7. 7 Seoul South Korea 113 works
  8. 8 Chongqing China 111 works
  9. 9 Guangzhou China 108 works
  10. 10 Chennai India 95 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ŽilinaSK · 25.7 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Vehicle emissions and performance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Vehicle emissions and performance?

Among universities, judged by research, Shanghai Maritime University, Universitat Politècnica de València and Guangxi University of Science and 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%60%mean 20.75%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Shanghai Maritime University: 40, 19.0%Universitat Politècnica de València: 43, 16.1%Guangxi University of Science and Technology: 10, 49.9%Chang'an University: 62, 13.9%Southeast University: 45, 28.3%Chalmers University of Technology: 21, 26.0%University of Žilina: 25, 3.6%Rzeszów University of Technology: 11, 15.5%King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: 14, 18.4%Tongji University: 95, 16.8%Guangxi University o…Shanghai Maritime Un…Universitat Politècn…Chang'an University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 62.419.0%15.3×40 +143.1%
2 Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaSpain 60.916.1%11.4×43 +87.6%
3 Guangxi University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.649.9%10.9×10 -76.9%
4 Chang'an UniversityChina 56.713.9%15.6×62 +29.5%
5 Southeast UniversityChina 55.728.3%3.1×45 +195.1%
6 Chalmers University of TechnologySweden 55.026.0%7.9×21 +36.6%
7 University of ŽilinaSlovakia 54.83.6%21.1×25 +226.2%
8 Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 54.015.5%11.3×11 +216.7%
9 King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 50.518.4%4.8×14 +313.3%
10 Tongji UniversityChina 50.116.8%7.0×95 -42.8%

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 Vehicle emissions and performance research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 29% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Vehicle emissions and performance.

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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.