Most-cited Engineering papers of 2020, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Engineering research papers published in 2020, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

  1. Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and the Road Ahead
    Marco Di Renzo, Alessio Zappone et al. · 2020 · 3,322 citations · Free PDF
  2. Biochar physicochemical properties: pyrolysis temperature and feedstock kind effects
    Agnieszka Tomczyk, ZOFIA SOKOŁOWSKA et al. · 2020 · 2,915 citations · Free PDF
  3. Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research
    Aidan Fuller, Zhong Fan et al. · 2020 · 2,895 citations · Free PDF
  4. High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells
    Jin Young Kim, Jin‐Wook Lee et al. · 2020 · 2,827 citations
  5. A reflection on lithium-ion battery cathode chemistry
    Arumugam Manthiram · 2020 · 2,824 citations · Free PDF
  6. Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey
    Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang et al. · 2020 · 2,396 citations
  7. Characterising the Digital Twin: A systematic literature review
    David Jones, Chris M. Snider et al. · 2020 · 2,387 citations
  8. Guidelines and trends for next-generation rechargeable lithium and lithium-ion batteries
    Feixiang Wu, Joachim Maier et al. · 2020 · 2,250 citations
  9. Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies
    Marco Giordani, Michele Polese et al. · 2020 · 2,233 citations · Free PDF
  10. A review of lithium-ion battery safety concerns: The issues, strategies, and testing standards
    Yuqing Chen, Yuqiong Kang et al. · 2020 · 2,180 citations
  11. U2Fusion: A Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion Network
    Han Xu, Jiayi Ma et al. · 2020 · 2,131 citations
  12. Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with >29% efficiency by enhanced hole extraction
    Amran Al‐Ashouri, Eike Köhnen et al. · 2020 · 2,109 citations
  13. Towards 6G wireless communication networks: vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts
    Xiaohu You, Cheng‐Xiang Wang et al. · 2020 · 2,047 citations · Free PDF
  14. Sustainable Recycling Technology for Li-Ion Batteries and Beyond: Challenges and Future Prospects
    Ersha Fan, Li Li et al. · 2020 · 2,038 citations
  15. Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-Art, and the Road Ahead
    Fan Liu, Christos Masouros et al. · 2020 · 2,014 citations · Free PDF
  16. Single‐Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Approaching 18% Efficiency
    Yong Yan Cui, Huifeng Yao et al. · 2020 · 1,965 citations
  17. Roadmap for advanced aqueous batteries: From design of materials to applications
    Dongliang Chao, Wanhai Zhou et al. · 2020 · 1,965 citations
  18. Digital Twin: Values, Challenges and Enablers From a Modeling Perspective
    Adil Rasheed, Omer San et al. · 2020 · 1,904 citations · Free PDF
  19. A Spatial-Temporal Attention-Based Method and a New Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection
    Hao Chen, Zhenwei Shi · 2020 · 1,902 citations · Free PDF
  20. A Survey of Autonomous Driving: Common Practices and Emerging Technologies
    Ekim Yurtsever, Jacob Lambert et al. · 2020 · 1,883 citations · Free PDF
  21. 6G Wireless Communication Systems: Applications, Requirements, Technologies, Challenges, and Research Directions
    Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Md. Asif Shahjalal et al. · 2020 · 1,866 citations · Free PDF
  22. Principles of Geotechnical Engineering
    Braja M. Das · 2020 · 1,822 citations
  23. Active Materials for Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Morphology, and Electrochemistry
    Xiaoxiao Jia, Chaofeng Liu et al. · 2020 · 1,814 citations
  24. Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures
    Mark Khenkin, Eugene A. Katz et al. · 2020 · 1,809 citations · Free PDF
  25. What should 6G be?
    Shuping Dang, Osama Amin et al. · 2020 · 1,727 citations · Free PDF

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