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Building and Construction research in United States

Pennsylvania State University ranks first in United States for Building and Construction research in 2022–2025 (#57 worldwide), followed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

United States's world rank
#2
of 73 countries, 2022–2025
Works, 2022–2025
9.2k
Top-10% rate
15.9%
Ranked institutions
23

Research strength only: this says nothing about teaching, admissions or cost.

What is the best university for Building and Construction in United States?

#InstitutionWorld rankScoreTop-10% rateWorks
1Pennsylvania State UniversityState College #5733.122.4%169
2Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeley #6331.537.1%63
3Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge #8227.128.5%90
4Virginia TechBlacksburg #9524.719.7%116
5University of FloridaGainesville #11621.420.0%98
6Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station #12020.822.8%123
7University of MichiganAnn Arbor #12420.330.4%66
8Purdue University West LafayetteWest Lafayette #12719.917.8%159
9University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley #14517.727.6%80
10University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana #19013.219.3%114
11University of California, DavisDavis #19213.024.1%64
12Arizona State UniversityTempe #19712.625.3%83
13Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta #22110.716.3%101
14University of WashingtonSeattle #23110.026.5%67
15North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh #2558.319.6%69
16The University of Texas at ArlingtonArlington #2667.618.8%64
17Missouri University of Science and TechnologyRolla #2747.128.6%60
18Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh #2757.123.2%65
19The University of Texas at AustinAustin #2896.317.7%71
20Iowa State UniversityAmes #3164.818.2%62
21Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge #3194.615.2%76
22Auburn UniversityAuburn #3712.112.4%64
23Weatherford CollegeWeatherford #4208.00.6%109

Institutions in United States above the floor of 40 fractional works in Building and Construction, ordered by their worldwide rank on research quality, 2022–2025.

Who are the top Building and Construction researchers in United States?

David Culler, Moshe Ben‐Akiva and Pétros Ioannou rank highest among researchers based in United States.

  1. 1David Culler#182 worldwide overall4.4k citations · 8 works
  2. 2Moshe Ben‐Akiva#2,168 worldwide overall2.9k citations · 29 works
  3. 3Pétros Ioannou#4,772 worldwide overall2.4k citations · 14 works
  4. 4Hojjat Adeli#5,814 worldwide overall1.4k citations · 10 works
  5. 5Martin Fischer#6,010 worldwide overall1.2k citations · 32 works
  6. 6Victor C. Li#6,376 worldwide overall3k citations · 48 works
  7. 7John W. Wallace#8,919 worldwide overall1k citations · 11 works
  8. 8Jochen Teizer#10,446 worldwide overall721 citations · 15 works
  9. 9MengChu Zhou#10,903 worldwide overall4.4k citations · 8 works
  10. 10Zdeněk P. Bažant#10,941 worldwide overall2.8k citations · 20 works
  11. 11Anthony Bebbington#11,287 worldwide overall517 citations · 10 works
  12. 12Tianzhen Hong#12,364 worldwide overall1.4k citations · 50 works
  13. 13Pravin Varaiya#13,088 worldwide overall1.8k citations · 15 works
  14. 14Mehdi S. Saiidi#13,441 worldwide overall819 citations · 16 works
  15. 15Jieping Ye#15,171 worldwide overall2k citations · 8 works

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