Question 1

What is Building Research Institute known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Building Research Institute stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,615 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#5,162 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Building and Construction and Civil and Structural Engineering (Building and Construction is 17.4× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Building Research Institute rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Building Research Institute ranks #10,915 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#7,136 all time), and #276 of 924 in Japan.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Building Research Institute?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Yushiro Fujii, James V Ryan and Akiyoshi Mukai lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Building Research Institute.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Building Research Institute?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Building Research Institute is "Behavior of Centrally Loaded Concrete-Filled Steel-Tube Short Columns" (Kenji Sakino, Hiroyuki Nakahara, Shosuke Morino et al., 2004), with 1,059 citations. Next come "Tsunami source of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake" (560) and "Time and Space Distribution of Coseismic Slip of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake as Inferred from Tsunami Waveform Data" (552).

Question 5

Which research topics does Building Research Institute publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Urban and spatial planning, Structural Load-Bearing Analysis, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization and Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Building Research Institute?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Community Participation, Sustainability, landscape conservation, Satoyama, Biodiversity, Mechanical Properties, Construction and Artificial Intelligence.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Building Research Institute work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 77% of research at Building Research Institute is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (42%), Environmental Science (14%), Computer Science (11%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Is Building Research Institute's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021.