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Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids

Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advances in structural vibration control systems, including the use of magnetorheological fluids, passive and active vibration isolators, nonlinear energy sinks, tuned mass dampers, inerter-based devices, electrorheological fluids, vibration absorbers, smart material composites, and seismic control.

  • Magnetorheological Fluids
  • Passive Vibration Isolators
  • Active Suspension Systems
  • Nonlinear Energy Sinks
  • Tuned Mass Dampers
  • Inerter-based Devices
  • Electrorheological Fluids
  • Vibration Absorbers
  • Smart Material Composites
  • Seismic Control
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids

Which countries lead Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.2k and 485 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.2k works
  2. 2 India 485 works
  3. 3 United States 287 works
  4. 4 Japan 214 works
  5. 5 Iran 195 works
  6. 6 Italy 172 works
  7. 7 South Korea 142 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 123 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 116 works
  10. 10 Germany 114 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: 63.1%India: 9.7%United States: 5.7%Japan: 4.3%6 others listed: 17.2%63%largest
China3,153 · 63.1%India485 · 9.7%United States287 · 5.7%Japan214 · 4.3%6 others listed861 · 17.2%

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

Which institutions lead Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids research, followed by Harbin Institute of Technology and Chongqing University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 102 works
  2. 2 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 89 works
  3. 3 Chongqing UniversityChina 64 works
  4. 4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 58 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 56 works
  6. 6 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 55 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 54 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 52 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 51 works
  10. 10 Shanghai UniversityChina 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids include Zhong Lin Wang, Kai You Wang and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 Tasawar Hayat Pakistan 135k 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 Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids?

The most cited paper in Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids is "Incremental dynamic analysis" (Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, C. Allin Cornell, 2001), with 4,239 citations. Next come "High-Speed Electrically Actuated Elastomers with Strain Greater Than 100%" (3,295) and "Phenomenological Model for Magnetorheological Dampers" (2,063).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Incremental dynamic analysis Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, C. Allin Cornell · Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics 19 Dec 2001 4,239
2 High-Speed Electrically Actuated Elastomers with Strain Greater Than 100% Ron Pelrine, Roy D. Kornbluh, Qibing Pei et al. · Science 4 Feb 2000 3,295
3 Phenomenological Model for Magnetorheological Dampers B. F. Spencer, Shirley J. Dyke, Mahaveer Kumar Sain et al. · Journal of Engineering Mechanics Mar 1997 2,063
4 Synthesis of mechanical networks: the inerter MALCOLM C. SMITH · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Oct 2002 1,823
5 State of the Art of Structural Control Billie F. Spencer, Satish Nagarajaiah · Journal of Structural Engineering 20 Jun 2003 1,451
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids research done?

The largest centres of Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Qinhuangdao and Zhenjiang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 417 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 277 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 232 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 179 works
  5. 5 HarbinChina 138 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 131 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 119 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 100 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 90 works
  10. 10 ShenyangChina 86 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. QinhuangdaoCN · 30.9 works12×
  2. ZhenjiangCN · 58.3 works8.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shanghai University and Tongji 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%30%mean 21.79%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shanghai UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…Harbin Institute of …Tongji University
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 81.725.9%8.8×41 +79.8%
2Shanghai UniversityChina 78.426.1%12.9×50 +43.0%
3Tongji UniversityChina 72.313.7%12.4×102 +30.9%
4Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 71.817.2%10.1×89 +23.2%
5Northeastern UniversityChina 70.723.7%9.8×47 +100.7%
6City University of Hong KongChina 69.424.6%5.5×17 +453.0%
7Southeast UniversityChina 69.320.2%7.0×56 +73.5%
8Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 67.618.3%9.4×58 +34.3%
9Hunan UniversityChina 67.521.3%9.1×35 +87.5%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 66.926.9%2.8×44 +30.8%

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 Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids, country by country

Is Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids.

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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 Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids 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%Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids9.8% 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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