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Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control

Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the control and analysis of noise and vibration in vehicles, particularly in relation to engine mounting systems. It covers topics such as transfer path analysis, operational transfer path analysis, sound quality evaluation, hydraulic engine mounts, and interior noise control.

  • Transfer Path Analysis
  • Sound Quality
  • Engine Mounting Systems
  • Operational Transfer Path Analysis
  • Interior Noise
  • Vibration Control
  • Hydraulic Engine Mounts
  • Structure-borne Noise
  • Automotive NVH
  • Psychoacoustic Model
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+45%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control

Which countries lead Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (813 and 302 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 813 works
  2. 2 United States 302 works
  3. 3 India 224 works
  4. 4 Germany 208 works
  5. 5 Japan 190 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 187 works
  7. 7 France 109 works
  8. 8 Italy 101 works
  9. 9 South Korea 100 works
  10. 10 Russia 61 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: 35.4%United States: 13.2%India: 9.7%Germany: 9.1%6 others listed: 32.6%35%largest
China813 · 35.4%United States302 · 13.2%India224 · 9.7%Germany208 · 9.1%6 others listed748 · 32.6%

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

Which institutions lead Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Southampton publishes the most Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control research, followed by Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  2. 2 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 25 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 23 works
  4. 4 Tongji UniversityChina 23 works
  5. 5 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 22 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 17 works
  8. 8 Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (China)China 17 works
  9. 9 Mahindra Group (India)India 16 works
  10. 10 Tata Motors (India)India 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control include JoAnn E. Manson, Seeram Ramakrishna and Jaakko A. Kaprio.

  1. 1 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  2. 2 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  3. 3 Jaakko A. Kaprio Finland 183k citations
  4. 4 Mike J Clarke United Kingdom 175k citations
  5. 5 Paul Elliott United Kingdom 154k 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 Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control?

The most cited paper in Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control is "Acoustical properties of fibrous absorbent materials" (Mary Delany, E.N. Bazley, 1970), with 1,899 citations. Next come "Noise pollution: non-auditory effects on health" (1,136) and "Optimum absorber parameters for various combinations of response and excitation parameters" (1,047).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Acoustical properties of fibrous absorbent materials Mary Delany, E.N. Bazley · Applied Acoustics Apr 1970 1,899
2 Noise pollution: non-auditory effects on health Stephen Alfred Stansfeld, Mark Matheson · British Medical Bulletin Dec 2003 1,136
3 Optimum absorber parameters for various combinations of response and excitation parameters Geoffrey B. Warburton · Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics May 1982 1,047
4 Nearfield acoustic holography: I. Theory of generalized holography and the development of NAH J. D. Maynard, Earl G. Williams, Y. Lee · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Oct 1985 937
5 Multivariate empirical mode decomposition Naveed ur Rehman, D. Mandic · Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 23 Dec 2009 889
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control research done?

The largest centres of Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Southampton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 113 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 93 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 70 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 47 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 47 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 45 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 41 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 39 works
  9. 9 MumbaiIndia 36 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SouthamptonGB · 28.6 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Southampton, Southwest Jiaotong University and Xi'an Jiaotong 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.

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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
1University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 73.06.7%20.5×28 +179.9%
2Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 71.826.4%10.9×22 +160.8%
3Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 68.936.8%3.2×15 +162.4%
4Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 57.823.8%7.4×18 +62.9%
5University of SalfordUnited Kingdom 56.612.6%63.0×15 +288.6%
6Tongji UniversityChina 56.121.7%5.6×23 +4.3%
7Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 55.016.7%6.7×12 +114.4%
8Chongqing UniversityChina 44.324.2%4.2×12 +27.5%
9Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 43.715.8%6.7×14 +79.6%
10Technical University of MunichGermany 41.37.8%5.3×12 +55.3%

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 Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control, country by country

Is Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control.

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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 Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control 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%Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control10.0% 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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