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Wave and Wind Energy Systems

Wave and Wind Energy Systems is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a comprehensive review and analysis of wave energy conversion technologies, including power take-off systems, offshore wind integration, control strategies, and hydrodynamic modeling. It also discusses the assessment of wave energy resources in various regions, highlighting the potential for renewable energy generation from ocean waves.

  • Wave Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Power Take-Off
  • Offshore Wind
  • Hydrodynamic Modeling
  • Ocean Energy
  • Control Strategies
  • Wave Power
  • Floating Structures
  • Resource Assessment
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+47%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wave and Wind Energy Systems

Which countries lead Wave and Wind Energy Systems research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 452 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 452 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 299 works
  4. 4 India 254 works
  5. 5 Italy 175 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 138 works
  7. 7 Japan 137 works
  8. 8 Norway 126 works
  9. 9 South Korea 112 works
  10. 10 Spain 111 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: 50.4%United States: 12.4%United Kingdom: 8.2%India: 7.0%6 others listed: 21.9%50%largest
China1,835 · 50.4%United States452 · 12.4%United Kingdom299 · 8.2%India254 · 7.0%6 others listed799 · 21.9%

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

Which institutions lead Wave and Wind Energy Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Dalian University of Technology publishes the most Wave and Wind Energy Systems research, followed by Ocean University of China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 105 works
  2. 2 Ocean University of ChinaChina 90 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 84 works
  4. 4 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 71 works
  5. 5 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 52 works
  6. 6 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 51 works
  7. 7 Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyChina 49 works
  8. 8 Tianjin UniversityChina 48 works
  9. 9 University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 43 works
  10. 10 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wave and Wind Energy Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wave and Wind Energy Systems include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and Seyedali Mirjalili.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  4. 4 Josep Maria Guerrero Denmark 123k 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 Wave and Wind Energy Systems?

The most cited paper in Wave and Wind Energy Systems is "The Force Exerted by Surface Waves on Piles" (J. R. Morison, Joe W. Johnson, S. A. Schaaf, 1950), with 2,736 citations. Next come "Wave energy utilization: A review of the technologies" (2,726) and "The disintegration of wave trains on deep water Part 1. Theory" (2,557).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Force Exerted by Surface Waves on Piles J. R. Morison, Joe W. Johnson, S. A. Schaaf · Journal of Petroleum Technology Open access May 1950 2,736
2 Wave energy utilization: A review of the technologies António F.O. Falcão · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 27 Nov 2009 2,726
3 The disintegration of wave trains on deep water Part 1. Theory Thomas Brooke Benjamin, J. E. Feir · Journal of Fluid Mechanics 24 Feb 1967 2,557
4 A review of wave energy converter technology Benjamin T. Drew, Andrew R Plummer, M. Necip Şahinkaya · Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and Energy Open access 27 Jul 2009 1,265
5 On three-dimensional packets of surface waves Angela Davey, Keith Stewartson · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 4 Jun 1974 1,113
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Wave and Wind Energy Systems research done?

The largest centres of Wave and Wind Energy Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Qingdao (China) and Dalian (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Maynooth, Zhoushan and Golden.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 229 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 192 works
  3. 3 QingdaoChina 139 works
  4. 4 DalianChina 138 works
  5. 5 HarbinChina 109 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 96 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 94 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 94 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 87 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MaynoothIE · 34.6 works64×
  2. ZhoushanCN · 32.0 works33×
  3. GoldenUS · 30.5 works25×
  4. PlymouthGB · 21.2 works25×
  5. StavangerNO · 21.5 works24×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wave and Wind Energy Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Wave and Wind Energy Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Lisbon, University of Plymouth and Dalian University of 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%10%20%30%mean 17.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LisbonUniversity of PlymouthUniversity of Strath…Dalian University of…
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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 LisbonPortugal 75.528.5%11.4×38 -12.2%
2University of PlymouthUnited Kingdom 74.225.6%43.0×21 +10.0%
3Dalian University of TechnologyChina 71.718.4%26.0×105 +43.6%
4University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 71.119.5%38.0×43 +42.0%
5Ocean University of ChinaChina 67.213.4%42.2×90 +118.4%
6Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.216.4%37.9×49 +84.4%
7Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 61.59.2%17.7×51 +146.9%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 61.313.0%6.8×84 +17.0%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 61.220.1%3.3×32 +105.6%
10Politecnico di TorinoItaly 60.29.5%26.9×52 +259.3%

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 Wave and Wind Energy Systems, country by country

Is Wave and Wind Energy Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 47% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Wave and Wind Energy Systems.

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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 Wave and Wind Energy Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Wave and Wind Energy Systems 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%Wave and Wind Energy Systems9.9% 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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