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GEI Consultants

In research, GEI Consultants stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,994 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#5,754 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Civil and Structural Engineering (Civil and Structural Engineering is 27.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,103
of 22,385 · #12,678 all time
Rank in United States
#2,490
of 3,332
Research works
901
▲ 45% vs 2018-21
Citations
19k
21.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
19%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
GEI Consultants

What is GEI Consultants known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #7,994 of 10,670 3.9%94 #7087
EngineeringField #5,754 of 5,901 2.5%63 #6416

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where GEI Consultants sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does GEI Consultants work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research at GEI Consultants is in Physical Sciences, 12% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (55%), Environmental Science (14%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 109 fractional works · 80.8% of its workEngineering: 74 fractional works · 54.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 44 fractional works · 32.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 8 fractional works · 5.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 6 fractional works · 4.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 19 fractional works · 14.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 11.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 3.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKGEI Consultants135fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences12%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering7454.5%
    2. Environmental Science1914.2%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences86.2%
    4. Computer Science53.5%
    5. Chemistry10.8%
    6. Materials Science10.7%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.4%
    8. Energy00.3%
    9. Mathematics00.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Social Sciences64.1%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting53.7%
    3. Psychology21.4%
    4. Decision Sciences10.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.7%
    1. Medicine42.8%
    2. Health Professions21.3%
    3. Nursing00.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences32.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.5%
    3. Neuroscience10.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does GEI Consultants specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Civil and Structural Engineering takes 27.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 44.2 works28×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.47× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.45× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.93× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.64× its world share, 74 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.85× its world share, 19 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.16× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.89× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.93×8 works
  2. Engineering3.64×74 works
  3. Environmental Science2.85×19 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.16×5 works
  5. Decision Sciences0.89×1 works
  6. Nursing0.72×0 works
  7. Chemistry0.50×1 works
  8. Health Professions0.48×2 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.47×3 works
  10. Psychology0.46×2 works
  11. Computer Science0.45×5 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.37×1 works
  13. Social Sciences0.33×6 works
  14. Energy0.30×0 works
  15. Neuroscience0.27×1 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.24×1 works
  17. Mathematics0.21×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.19×1 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.16×0 works
  20. Medicine0.15×4 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.14×0 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×1 works

Who are the top researchers at GEI Consultants?

Ranked on the quality score, Steve J. Poulos, Kevin J. Coppersmith and Maurice S. Power lead among researchers whose main affiliation is GEI Consultants.

  1. 1 Steve J. Poulos United States · #1,129,700 worldwide 1.8k citations · 27 works
  2. 2 Kevin J. Coppersmith United States · #1,430,753 worldwide 11k citations · 55 works
  3. 3 Maurice S. Power United States · #1,653,290 worldwide 3.6k citations · 44 works
  4. 4 Gonzalo Castro United States · #1,909,700 worldwide 4.1k citations · 54 works
  5. 5 F.H. Swan United States · #2,927,514 worldwide 506 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Marco D. Boscardin United States · #3,020,452 worldwide 833 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Tom Hurley United States · #3,725,076 worldwide 125 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Robert W. Gensemer United States · #3,983,385 worldwide 2.6k citations · 63 works
  9. 9 John A. Egan United States · #4,008,697 worldwide 843 citations · 24 works
  10. 10 Pericles C. Stivaros United States · #4,541,026 worldwide 66 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at GEI Consultants

What are the most cited papers from GEI Consultants?

The most cited paper from GEI Consultants is "New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement" (Donald L. Wells, Kevin J. Coppersmith, 1994), with 7,875 citations. Next come "Liquefaction Resistance of Soils: Summary Report from the 1996 NCEER and 1998 NCEER/NSF Workshops on Evaluation of Liquefaction Resistance of Soils" (2,008) and "An NGA Model for the Average Horizontal Component of Peak Ground Motion and Response Spectra" (1,174).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement Donald L. Wells, Kevin J. Coppersmith · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Aug 1994 7,875
2 Liquefaction Resistance of Soils: Summary Report from the 1996 NCEER and 1998 NCEER/NSF Workshops on Evaluation of Liquefaction Resistance of Soils T. Leslie Youd et al. · Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Oct 2001 2,008
3 An NGA Model for the Average Horizontal Component of Peak Ground Motion and Response Spectra BrianS-J. Chiou, Robert R. Youngs · Earthquake Spectra Feb 2008 1,174
4 Strong Ground Motion Attenuation Relationships for Subduction Zone Earthquakes Robert R. Youngs, Shian Jin Chiou, W. J. Silva et al. · Seismological Research Letters 1997 720
5 Attenuation Relationships for Shallow Crustal Earthquakes Based on California Strong Motion Data Khosrow Sadigh, C. Chang, John A. Egan et al. · Seismological Research Letters 1997 604
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at GEI Consultants?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Liquefaction, Tunnel, Analysis, Earthquake, Seismic, Fiber Reinforcement, Geosynthetics and Soil Reinforcement.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Liquefaction11▲ 97×2 topics
  2. Tunnel11▲ 97×2 topics
  3. Analysis9▲ 72×2 topics
  4. Earthquake8▲ 106×1 topic
  5. Seismic8▲ 106×1 topic
  6. Fiber Reinforcement8▲ 92×2 topics
  7. Geosynthetics8▲ 115×1 topic
  8. Soil Properties8▲ 33×3 topics
  9. Soil Reinforcement8▲ 87×1 topic
  10. Finite Element Analysis8▲ 25×4 topics
  11. Climate Change8▲ 2.0×24 topics
  12. Sustainability7▲ 2.2×16 topics
  13. Remote Sensing7▲ 4.4×11 topics
  14. Spatial Variability6▲ 70×2 topics
  15. Reliability Analysis6▲ 44×2 topics
  16. Probabilistic Methods6▲ 112×1 topic
  17. Slope Stability Analysis6▲ 112×1 topic
  18. Liquefaction Resistance6▲ 140×1 topic
  19. Particle Shape Effects6▲ 140×1 topic
  20. Environmental Impact6▲ 2.4×14 topics
  21. Hydraulic Conductivity5▲ 77×2 topics
  22. Supply Chain Management4▲ 3.2×6 topics
  23. Water Quality4▲ 7.0×10 topics
  24. Risk Assessment4▲ 4.1×5 topics
  25. Cementitious3▲ 80×1 topic
  26. Grouting3▲ 80×1 topic
  27. GIS-based Modeling3▲ 27×2 topics
  28. Hazard3▲ 29×1 topic
  29. Landslide3▲ 29×1 topic
  30. Predictive Analytics3▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Sediment Transport3▲ 12×5 topics
  32. Soil Hydraulic Properties3▲ 58×1 topic
  33. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics3▲ 58×1 topic
  34. Analytics2▲ 21×1 topic
  35. Business Intelligence2▲ 21×1 topic
  36. Methane Oxidation2▲ 23×2 topics
  37. CO2 Sequestration2▲ 9.0×4 topics
  38. Geosynthetic Clay Liners2▲ 120×1 topic
  39. Landfill Gas2▲ 120×1 topic
  40. Seismic Analysis2▲ 45×2 topics

Which research topics does GEI Consultants publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization, Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics.

Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 8 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization: 8 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Analysis: 6 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics: 6 fractional worksGrouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics: 3 fractional worksLandslides and related h…3Landslides and related hazards: 3 fractional worksSoil and Unsaturated Flow: 3 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 2 fractional worksLandfill Environmental Impact Studies: 2 fractional worksDam Engineering and Safety: 2 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringSafety, Risk, Reliability and QualityManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawManagement Information Systems1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 8 works
  2. 2 Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization Civil and Structural Engineering 8 works
  3. 3 Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 6 works
  4. 4 Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics Civil and Structural Engineering 6 works
  5. 5 Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics Civil and Structural Engineering 3 works
  6. 6 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 3 works
  7. 7 Soil and Unsaturated Flow Civil and Structural Engineering 3 works
  8. 8 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 2 works
  9. 9 Landfill Environmental Impact Studies Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 works
  10. 10 Dam Engineering and Safety Civil and Structural Engineering 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available18.6%not open81.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.0%domestic only74.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has GEI Consultants's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 GEI Consultants as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00062% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%GEI Consultants0.00060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of GEI Consultants 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, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025GEI Consultants7.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.2% in 2014.

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