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Water Systems and Optimization

Water Systems and Optimization is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 29k 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 design, management, and optimization of water distribution networks. It covers topics such as leak detection, resilience analysis, pipe friction modeling, sensor placement, genetic algorithms, transient flow analysis, infrastructure condition assessment, and pressure control in water distribution systems.

  • Water Distribution Networks
  • Leak Detection
  • Optimization
  • Resilience Analysis
  • Pipe Friction Modeling
  • Sensor Placement
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Transient Flow Analysis
  • Infrastructure Condition Assessment
  • Pressure Control
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Water Systems and Optimization

Which countries lead Water Systems and Optimization research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 634 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 634 works
  3. 3 India 474 works
  4. 4 Brazil 209 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 187 works
  6. 6 Iran 183 works
  7. 7 Italy 178 works
  8. 8 Canada 150 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 134 works
  10. 10 Germany 112 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: 45.0%United States: 15.4%India: 11.5%Brazil: 5.1%6 others listed: 23.0%45%largest
China1,848 · 45.0%United States634 · 15.4%India474 · 11.5%Brazil209 · 5.1%6 others listed944 · 23.0%

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

Which institutions lead Water Systems and Optimization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Hohai University publishes the most Water Systems and Optimization research, followed by Tsinghua University and Tongji University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Hohai UniversityChina 65 works
  2. 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 45 works
  3. 3 Tongji UniversityChina 33 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 32 works
  5. 5 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 32 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 32 works
  7. 7 Jiangsu UniversityChina 31 works
  8. 8 Xi'an University of TechnologyChina 31 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 31 works
  10. 10 Tianjin UniversityChina 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Water Systems and Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Water Systems and Optimization include Lei Jiang, Guangming Zeng and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  2. 2 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  6. 6 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 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 Water Systems and Optimization?

The most cited paper in Water Systems and Optimization is "A New Heuristic Optimization Algorithm: Harmony Search" (Zong Woo Geem, Joong Hoon Kim, G. V. Loganathan, 2001), with 6,288 citations. Next come "Optimal Filtering" (3,241) and "Cost-effective outbreak detection in networks" (2,547).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A New Heuristic Optimization Algorithm: Harmony Search Zong Woo Geem, Joong Hoon Kim, G. V. Loganathan · SIMULATION Feb 2001 6,288
2 Optimal Filtering Brian D. O. Anderson, John B. Moore, Mansour Eslami · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Mar 1982 3,241
3 Cost-effective outbreak detection in networks Jure Leskovec, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin et al. Conference paperOpen access 12 Aug 2007 2,547
4 Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers Walter Willem Immerzeel et al. · Nature Open access 9 Dec 2019 2,145
5 Isolation-Based Anomaly Detection Fei Tony Liu, Kai Ming Ting, Zhi‐Hua Zhou · ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data Mar 2012 2,073
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Water Systems and Optimization research done?

The largest centres of Water Systems and Optimization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Wuhan (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 349 works
  2. 2 WuhanChina 121 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 120 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 99 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 91 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 91 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 78 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 72 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 58 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 54 works
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Where is the best place to study Water Systems and Optimization?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hohai 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%20%40%mean 20.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Tongji UniversityTsinghua UniversityHohai 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 84.240.6%5.5×26 +20.8%
2Hohai UniversityChina 65.517.9%20.5×65 +11.1%
3Tongji UniversityChina 61.022.7%4.0×33 +62.7%
4Tsinghua UniversityChina 60.022.2%3.7×45 +4.5%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 59.420.3%7.3×31 +26.8%
6University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 58.017.1%9.8×22 -9.6%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 55.220.3%3.6×32 +114.2%
8China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 55.014.3%15.1×32 +22.1%
9Xi'an University of TechnologyChina 54.715.5%17.8×31 +63.4%
10The University of AdelaideAustralia 54.215.0%8.9×20 -5.8%

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 Water Systems and Optimization, country by country

Is Water Systems and Optimization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Water Systems and Optimization.

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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 Water Systems and Optimization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Water Systems and Optimization 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%Water Systems and Optimization10.0% 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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