Wireless Power Transfer: Literature survey

This paper analyzes the bibliography on Wireless Power Transfer research covering the period of 2001-2013 using two databases (Web of Science and Scopus). We will report some differences found in the databases used in this research. Due to the large number of publications in peer review journals, conferences and symposia contributions were not included. Four tens of peer review journals were investigated, in which 90 and 122 papers including the words Wireless Power Transfer in their title have been published in the period 2001-2013, respectively. The most productive and high-impact authors and countries are identified. The four most productive countries are USA, South Korea, China, Japan and Singapore in both databases. 127 average citations were received by each one of the five most cited papers in Scopus. The bibliographic research presented in this paper is important because it includes and analyzes the best research papers on Wireless Power Transfer coming from more than two tens of countries all over the world and published in top rated science technology journals.