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Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology

In research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology stands highest in Engineering (#2,027 of 6,636 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#4,576 of 12,888 worldwide) and Civil and Structural Engineering (#441 of 896 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality — Civil and Structural Engineering is 18.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,887
of 28,054 · #8,173 all time
Rank in South Korea
#147
of 417
Research works
3.5k
▼ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
45k
13.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
60%
world 28%

What is Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #2,027 of 6,636 12.5%418 #1626
Physical SciencesDomain #4,576 of 12,888 12.4%694 #4942
Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield #441 of 896 10.4%172 #375
Environmental ScienceField #2,194 of 3,551 11.7%159 #2245
Building and ConstructionSubfield #361 of 422 12.4%70 #403
Social SciencesDomain #9,172 of 10,521 15.1%62 #13175

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Engineering#1,626 #2,027
  2. Physical Sciences#4,942 #4,576
  3. Civil and Structural Engineering#375 #441
  4. Environmental Science#2,245 #2,194
  5. Building and Construction#403 #361
  6. Social Sciences#13,175 #9,172
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Civil and Structural Engineering takes 18.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 172.4 works18×
  2. Building and ConstructionSubfield · 69.9 works14×
  3. Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualitySubfield · 23.3 works12×
  4. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 40.7 works9.5×
  5. TransportationSubfield · 22.7 works8.6×
  6. Water Science and TechnologySubfield · 31.4 works7.7×
← 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: 0.28× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.28× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.49× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.44× its world share, 27 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.80× its world share, 35 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.57× its world share, 11 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.52× its world share, 418 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.06× its world share, 159 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.05× its world share, 29 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.26× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.45× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.08× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.27× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 33 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology?

Ranked on the composite score, June-Seok Choi, Hyoseop Woo and Kyung-Taek Koh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology.

  1. 1 June-Seok Choi South Korea · #131,382 worldwide 347 citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Hyoseop Woo South Korea · #233,010 worldwide 209 citations · 24 works
  3. 3 Kyung-Taek Koh South Korea · #336,660 worldwide 256 citations · 30 works
  4. 4 Łi Zhuang South Korea · #520,341 worldwide 186 citations · 64 works
  5. 5 Kyungtak Kim South Korea · #706,254 worldwide 11 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Tae-Mun Hwang South Korea · #720,196 worldwide 46 citations · 27 works
  7. 7 Junwoo Choi South Korea · #751,008 worldwide 65 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Woo-Tai Jung South Korea · #776,867 worldwide 25 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Byung-Suk Kim South Korea · #793,900 worldwide 87 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Hyu‐Soung Shin South Korea · #794,724 worldwide 44 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology

Which keywords describe research at Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Artificial Neural Networks, Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Defect Detection, Recycled Materials, Image Processing, Convolutional Neural Networks and Hydrological Modeling.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Climate Change59▲ 2.8×39 topics
  2. Deep Learning56▲ 2.1×36 topics
  3. Remote Sensing49▲ 5.0×25 topics
  4. Machine Learning45▲ 1.75×31 topics
  5. Artificial Neural Networks43▲ 11×5 topics
  6. Environmental Impact42▲ 3.1×26 topics
  7. Convolutional Neural Networks34▲ 5.9×9 topics
  8. Defect Detection34▲ 32×3 topics
  9. Recycled Materials32▲ 36×2 topics
  10. Image Processing32▲ 9.0×7 topics
  11. Mechanical Properties31▲ 4.0×19 topics
  12. Hydrological Modeling29▲ 16×4 topics
  13. Crack Detection28▲ 50×1 topic
  14. Pavement28▲ 50×1 topic
  15. Water Resources25▲ 13×5 topics
  16. Energy Efficiency24▲ 3.3×14 topics
  17. Sediment Transport24▲ 19×4 topics
  18. Disaster Management23▲ 20×3 topics
  19. Construction22▲ 20×3 topics
  20. IoT22▲ 7.3×7 topics
  21. Thermal Comfort20▲ 20×2 topics
  22. Life Cycle Assessment20▲ 9.3×6 topics
  23. Rheology20▲ 13×5 topics
  24. Finite Element Analysis20▲ 11×7 topics
  25. Climate Change Impact20▲ 11×3 topics
  26. Land Use Change19▲ 8.0×5 topics
  27. Water Quality19▲ 6.1×8 topics
  28. CO2 Sequestration19▲ 13×4 topics
  29. Energy Simulation19▲ 26×2 topics
  30. Model Predictive Control19▲ 9.1×5 topics
  31. Energy Consumption19▲ 10×5 topics
  32. Fiber Reinforced Concrete18▲ 29×1 topic
  33. Ultra-High Performance Concrete18▲ 29×1 topic
  34. Reinforced Concrete18▲ 28×2 topics
  35. Geopolymer18▲ 16×2 topics
  36. Building Energy Consumption16▲ 26×1 topic
  37. Corrosion16▲ 16×5 topics
  38. Sustainable Buildings16▲ 26×1 topic
  39. Numerical Simulation16▲ 6.8×11 topics
  40. Fly Ash15▲ 18×2 topics

Which research topics does Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring, Innovative concrete reinforcement materials, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Infrastructure Maintenan…28Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 28 fractional worksInnovative concrete rein…18Innovative concrete reinforcement materials: 18 fractional worksBuilding Energy and Comfort Optimization: 16 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 15 fractional worksAsphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation: 14 fractional worksConcrete Corrosion and Durability: 14 fractional worksConcrete and Cement Mate…13Concrete and Cement Materials Research: 13 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 12 fractional worksEnergy and Environmental Systems: 12 fractional worksStructural Behavior of R…11Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete: 11 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringBuilding and ConstructionWater Science and TechnologyGlobal and Planetary Change1 others

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

  1. 1 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 28 works
  2. 2 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials Civil and Structural Engineering 18 works
  3. 3 Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Building and Construction 16 works
  4. 4 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 15 works
  5. 5 Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation Civil and Structural Engineering 14 works
  6. 6 Concrete Corrosion and Durability Civil and Structural Engineering 14 works
  7. 7 Concrete and Cement Materials Research Civil and Structural Engineering 13 works
  8. 8 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 12 works
  9. 9 Energy and Environmental Systems Transportation 12 works
  10. 10 Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Building and Construction 11 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 available59.9%not open40.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.2%domestic only86.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% lower than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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