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Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1960. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) and communications, covering topics such as DSRC standards, V2X communications, security analysis, intelligent transportation systems, LTE-V, Internet of Vehicles, routing protocols, VANET security, and cooperative vehicular safety.

  • Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
  • DSRC Standards
  • V2X Communications
  • Security Analysis
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • LTE-V
  • Internet of Vehicles
  • Routing Protocols
  • VANET Security
  • Cooperative Vehicular Safety
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1960
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)

Which countries lead Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.1k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 India 1.3k works
  3. 3 United States 696 works
  4. 4 Germany 241 works
  5. 5 South Korea 236 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 202 works
  7. 7 Canada 181 works
  8. 8 Japan 169 works
  9. 9 Italy 161 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 150 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: 38.3%India: 24.6%United States: 12.7%Germany: 4.4%6 others listed: 20.0%38%largest
China2,105 · 38.3%India1,348 · 24.6%United States696 · 12.7%Germany241 · 4.4%6 others listed1,099 · 20.0%

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

Which institutions lead Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) research, followed by SRM Institute of Science and Technology and Beijing Jiaotong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 61 works
  2. 2 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 61 works
  3. 3 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 55 works
  4. 4 Xidian UniversityChina 44 works
  5. 5 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 42 works
  6. 6 Southeast UniversityChina 41 works
  7. 7 Tongji UniversityChina 39 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 36 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 34 works
  10. 10 Beihang UniversityChina 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) include Kai You Wang, Stefan Lorkowski and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Stefan Lorkowski Germany 166k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  4. 4 Philip S. Yu United States 141k citations
  5. 5 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Iran 137k citations
  6. 6 Rui Zhang Singapore 115k citations
  7. 7 Lei Zhang China 112k 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 Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)?

The most cited paper in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is "A survey of mobility models for ad hoc network research" (Tracy K. Camp, Jeff L. Boleng, Vanessa Davies, 2002), with 4,638 citations. Next come "Wireless mesh networks: a survey" (4,024) and "Microscopic Traffic Simulation using SUMO" (3,310).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A survey of mobility models for ad hoc network research Tracy K. Camp, Jeff L. Boleng, Vanessa Davies · Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Aug 2002 4,638
2 Wireless mesh networks: a survey Ian Fuat Akyildiz, Xudong Wang, Weilin Wang · Computer Networks 4 Jan 2005 4,024
3 Microscopic Traffic Simulation using SUMO Pablo Álvarez López, Evamarie Wießner, Michael Behrisch et al. Conference paper Nov 2018 3,310
4 Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) Standards in the United States John B. Kenney · Proceedings of the IEEE 20 Jun 2011 2,413
5 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges Hazim Shakhatreh, Ahmad Sawalmeh, Ala Al‐Fuqaha et al. · IEEE Access Open access 2019 2,388
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Where is Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) research done?

The largest centres of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 419 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 167 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 143 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 140 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 132 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 97 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 93 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 79 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 77 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 77 works
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Where is the best place to study Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)?

Among universities, judged by research, Swinburne University of Technology, Nanyang Technological University and Beijing 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.

0%20%40%mean 21.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Swinburne University…Nanyang Technologica…Xidian UniversityBeijing Jiaotong Uni…
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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
1Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 63.543.6%4.9×9 +169.0%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 60.328.8%4.4×23 +10.3%
3Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 59.711.2%14.0×55 +21.6%
4Xidian UniversityChina 59.317.3%9.4×44 -2.0%
5Anhui UniversityChina 59.121.2%6.2×18 +57.9%
6SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 58.68.1%9.3×61 +314.2%
7Southeast UniversityChina 56.714.3%4.4×41 +91.4%
8Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 56.614.1%6.7×42 +52.1%
9King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 56.232.0%3.4×8 +266.7%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 55.121.6%2.3×34 +12.8%

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 Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), country by country

Is Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs).

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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 Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)0.033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) 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%Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)9.7% 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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