# Most-cited Engineering papers of 2022, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Engineering research papers published in 2022, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. [Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3194620979) · 3,763 citations · Free PDF
2. [Rechargeable Batteries for Grid Scale Energy Storage](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4297017859) · 1,793 citations
3. [FAST-LIO2: Fast Direct LiDAR-Inertial Odometry](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4210423514) · 1,744 citations
4. [Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4220652963) · 1,553 citations · Free PDF
5. [Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4280571816) · 1,541 citations · Free PDF
6. [SwinFusion: Cross-domain Long-range Learning for General Image Fusion via Swin Transformer](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4283732315) · 1,527 citations
7. [Inactive (PbI 2 ) 2 RbCl stabilizes perovskite films for efficient solar cells](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4288425348) · 1,451 citations
8. [Conformal quantum dot–SnO 2 layers as electron transporters for efficient perovskite solar cells](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4206188804) · 1,355 citations
9. [Direct Ink Writing: A 3D Printing Technology for Diverse Materials](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4221095855) · 1,336 citations
10. [High‐Energy Lithium‐Ion Batteries: Recent Progress and a Promising Future in Applications](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4293078387) · 1,201 citations
11. [Sustainable Energy Transition for Renewable and Low Carbon Grid Electricity Generation and Supply](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4220773259) · 1,161 citations · Free PDF
12. [Advanced lightweight materials for Automobiles: A review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4288459223) · 1,155 citations
13. [Active RIS vs. Passive RIS: Which Will Prevail in 6G?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4313001863) · 1,130 citations · Free PDF
14. [A Survey on Fundamental Limits of Integrated Sensing and Communication](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3155535021) · 1,126 citations · Free PDF
15. [A guide to the organ-on-a-chip](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4280540675) · 1,097 citations · Free PDF
16. [High-entropy nanoparticles: Synthesis-structure-property relationships and data-driven discovery](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4225986862) · 1,076 citations
17. [UIU-Net: U-Net in U-Net for Infrared Small Object Detection](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4313506322) · 1,072 citations · Free PDF
18. [Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4289958251) · 1,053 citations
19. [Dense Nested Attention Network for Infrared Small Target Detection](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3171950886) · 1,051 citations · Free PDF
20. [Digital Twins: A Survey on Enabling Technologies, Challenges, Trends and Future Prospects](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4296913260) · 1,048 citations
21. [Organometallic-functionalized interfaces for highly efficient inverted perovskite solar cells](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4224247759) · 1,046 citations
22. [Artificial intelligence and smart vision for building and construction 4.0: Machine and deep learning methods and applications](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4283392904) · 995 citations
23. [Ten Years of Industrie 4.0](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4286276003) · 985 citations · Free PDF
24. [Electrochemical Sensors and Their Applications: A Review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4295591987) · 983 citations · Free PDF
25. [Organoids](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4311060730) · 983 citations · Free PDF

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