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Wind Energy Research and Development

Wind Energy Research and Development is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1953. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on wind energy technology, including topics such as wind turbine wakes, renewable energy sustainability indicators, Weibull distribution for wind speed analysis, offshore wind farms, tidal energy conversion systems, blade design, wind farm optimization, CFD simulation for aerodynamics, and environmental impact assessment.

  • Wind Turbine Wakes
  • Renewable Energy
  • Weibull Distribution
  • Aerodynamics
  • Offshore Wind Farms
  • Tidal Energy
  • Blade Design
  • Wind Farm Optimization
  • CFD Simulation
  • Sustainability Indicators
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1953
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
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wind Energy Research and Development

Which countries lead Wind Energy Research and Development research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 584 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 584 works
  3. 3 India 447 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 352 works
  5. 5 Germany 271 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 205 works
  7. 7 Italy 173 works
  8. 8 Spain 168 works
  9. 9 Japan 161 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 147 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: 42.1%United States: 13.5%India: 10.3%United Kingdom: 8.1%6 others listed: 26.0%42%largest
China1,821 · 42.1%United States584 · 13.5%India447 · 10.3%United Kingdom352 · 8.1%6 others listed1,125 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Wind Energy Research and Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Technical University of Denmark publishes the most Wind Energy Research and Development research, followed by Delft University of Technology and North China Electric Power University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 99 works
  2. 2 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 91 works
  3. 3 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 80 works
  4. 4 National Laboratory of the RockiesUnited States 57 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 48 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 39 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 39 works
  8. 8 Hohai UniversityChina 39 works
  9. 9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 37 works
  10. 10 University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wind Energy Research and Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wind Energy Research and Development include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and Seeram Ramakrishna.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  4. 4 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 Wind Energy Research and Development?

The most cited paper in Wind Energy Research and Development is "Doubly Fed Induction Generator Systems for Wind Turbines: A Viable Alternative to Adjust Speed over a Wide Range at Minimal Cost" (Sascha Müller, M. Deicke, Rik W. De Doncker, 2002), with 1,870 citations. Next come "The Mathematical Representation of Wind Speed and Temperature Profiles in the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer" (1,837) and "Energy supply, its demand and security issues for developed and emerging economies" (1,403).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Doubly Fed Induction Generator Systems for Wind Turbines: A Viable Alternative to Adjust Speed over a Wide Range at Minimal Cost Sascha Müller, M. Deicke, Rik W. De Doncker · IEEE Industry Applications Magazine May 2002 1,870
2 The Mathematical Representation of Wind Speed and Temperature Profiles in the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer Clayton A. Paulson · Journal of applied meteorology Open access Dec 1970 1,837
3 Energy supply, its demand and security issues for developed and emerging economies Mohammad Asif, Tariq Muneer · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 31 Jan 2006 1,403
4 Wind turbine wake aerodynamics L. J. Vermeer, Jens Nørkær Sørensen, Antonio Marcio Ferreira Crespo · Progress in Aerospace Sciences Aug 2003 1,374
5 Numerical Modeling of Wind Turbine Wakes Jens Nørkær Sørensen, Wen Zhong Shen · Journal of Fluids Engineering 28 May 2002 1,367
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Wind Energy Research and Development research done?

The largest centres of Wind Energy Research and Development research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Kongens Lyngby (Denmark). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bremerhaven, Golden and Kongens Lyngby.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 340 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 138 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 130 works
  4. 4 Kongens LyngbyDenmark 100 works
  5. 5 DelftNetherlands 94 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 77 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 74 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 70 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 68 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 64 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BremerhavenDE · 30.7 works67×
  2. GoldenUS · 58.0 works34×
  3. Kongens LyngbyDK · 100.1 works29×
  4. DelftNL · 94.2 works18×
  5. OldenburgDE · 21.9 works16×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wind Energy Research and Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Wind Energy Research and Development?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Plymouth, Delft University of Technology and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 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 22.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of PlymouthOcean University of …École Polytechnique …Delft 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 PlymouthUnited Kingdom 69.834.4%16.3×12 +25.7%
2Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 67.29.2%22.2×91 +55.4%
3École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 64.317.0%7.4×19 +25.3%
4Ocean University of ChinaChina 63.824.9%10.9×33 +219.4%
5North China Electric Power UniversityChina 62.316.5%19.7×80 +8.8%
6University College CorkIreland 60.528.1%6.7×12 +28.5%
7Dalian University of TechnologyChina 59.025.8%4.6×27 +66.4%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 58.831.3%2.4×12 -2.0%
9Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 58.29.0%32.2×100 -18.9%
10Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.129.9%7.7×14 +159.1%

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 Wind Energy Research and Development, country by country

Is Wind Energy Research and Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Wind Energy Research and Development.

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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 Wind Energy Research and Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Wind Energy Research and Development0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wind Energy Research and Development 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%Wind Energy Research and Development10.1% 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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Wind Energy Research and Development is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1953. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

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