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National Ready Mixed Concrete Association

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Research works
116
▼ 52% vs 2013–17
Citations
802
6.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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.

Which keywords describe research at National Ready Mixed Concrete Association?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Geopolymer, Mechanical Properties, Environmental Impact, Digital Fabrication, Carbon Emissions, Mechanical Behavior, Cementitious Materials and Fly Ash.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Geopolymer22▲ 224×2 topics
  2. Mechanical Properties15▲ 13×12 topics
  3. Environmental Impact14▲ 9.3×6 topics
  4. Digital Fabrication12▲ 195×2 topics
  5. Carbon Emissions11▲ 156×2 topics
  6. Cementitious Materials11▲ 183×1 topic
  7. Fly Ash11▲ 132×1 topic
  8. Mechanical Behavior11▲ 65×2 topics
  9. Rheology11▲ 43×2 topics
  10. Construction11▲ 87×3 topics
  11. 3D Printing10▲ 48×1 topic
  12. Concrete Extrusion10▲ 295×1 topic
  13. Recycled Materials10▲ 131×2 topics
  14. Fiber Reinforced Concrete10▲ 196×1 topic
  15. Ultra-High Performance Concrete10▲ 196×1 topic
  16. Durability Performance8▲ 108×2 topics
  17. Rock Mechanics8▲ 61×3 topics
  18. Coal Seam7▲ 100×2 topics
  19. Sustainability7▲ 3.5×4 topics
  20. Concrete Properties6▲ 202×2 topics
  21. Mining Engineering6▲ 178×1 topic
  22. Support Technology6▲ 178×1 topic
  23. Concrete6▲ 204×2 topics
  24. Facilities Management6▲ 101×2 topics
  25. BIM6▲ 124×1 topic
  26. Prefabrication6▲ 124×1 topic
  27. Microstructure5▲ 8.4×4 topics
  28. Construction Waste Management5▲ 232×1 topic
  29. Recycled Aggregate5▲ 232×1 topic
  30. Thermal Properties4▲ 22×4 topics
  31. Autogenous Shrinkage4▲ 316×1 topic
  32. Internal Curing4▲ 316×1 topic
  33. Finite Element Analysis4▲ 14×3 topics
  34. Recycling4▲ 13×4 topics
  35. Corrosion4▲ 26×3 topics
  36. Modeling4▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Virtual Reality4▲ 8.2×2 topics
  38. Concrete Strengthening3▲ 63×1 topic
  39. Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites3▲ 63×1 topic
  40. Reinforced Concrete3▲ 43×2 topics

Which research topics does National Ready Mixed Concrete Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials, Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance, Concrete and Cement Materials Research and Innovative concrete reinforcement materials.

Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials: 2 fractional worksRecycled Aggregate Concrete Performance: 2 fractional worksConcrete and Cement Materials Research: 2 fractional worksInnovative concrete rein…2Innovative concrete reinforcement materials: 2 fractional worksArchitecture and Computa…1Architecture and Computational Design: 1 fractional worksConcrete Properties and Behavior: 1 fractional worksGeotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering: 0 fractional worksRecycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production: 0 fractional worksIndustrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection: 0 fractional worksMining and Gasification Technologies: 0 fractional works
Building and ConstructionCivil and Structural EngineeringArchitectureMechanics of Materials2 others

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

  1. 1 Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials Building and Construction 2 works
  2. 2 Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance Building and Construction 2 works
  3. 3 Concrete and Cement Materials Research Civil and Structural Engineering 2 works
  4. 4 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials Civil and Structural Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Architecture and Computational Design Architecture 1 works
  6. 6 Concrete Properties and Behavior Civil and Structural Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  8. 8 Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production Building and Construction 0 works
  9. 9 Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Mining and Gasification Technologies Mechanical Engineering 0 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 available31.8%not open68.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.6%domestic only77.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Ready Mixed Concrete Association's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 52% lower than in 2013–2017.

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