Subfield · Civil and Structural Engineering
Most cited papers in Civil and Structural Engineering
What are the most cited papers in Civil and Structural Engineering?
The most cited paper in Civil and Structural Engineering is "A Closed‐form Equation for Predicting the Hydraulic Conductivity of Unsaturated Soils" (Martinus Th. van Genuchten, 1980), with 27,905 citations. Next come "A discrete numerical model for granular assemblies" (17,351) and "A Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for Pattern Recognition" (16,499).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 2,601 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Closed‐form Equation for Predicting the Hydraulic Conductivity of Unsaturated Soils Martinus Th. van Genuchten · Soil Science Society of America Journal | Sep 1980 | 27,905 |
| 2 | A discrete numerical model for granular assemblies Peter A. Cundall, Otto D. L. Strack · Géotechnique | Mar 1979 | 17,351 |
| 3 | A Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for Pattern Recognition Christopher J. C. Burges · Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery | Jun 1998 | 16,499 |
| 4 | Complex thermoelectric materials Gerald Jeffrey Snyder, Eric S. Toberer · Nature Materials | 25 Jan 2008 | 11,452 |
| 5 | Describing the uncertainties in experimental results Robert J. Moffat · Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science | 1988 | 9,840 |
| 6 | Diagnosis and Improvement of Saline and Alkali Soils L. A. Richards · Soil Science | Aug 1954 | 9,313 |
| 7 | Variational Mode Decomposition Konstantin Dragomiretskiy, Dominique Zosso · IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | 24 Jan 2014 | 9,123 |
| 8 | ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION: A NOISE-ASSISTED DATA ANALYSIS METHOD Zhaohua Wu, Norden Eh Huang · Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis | 17 Oct 2008 | 8,819 |
| 9 | Theoretical Stress‐Strain Model for Confined Concrete J.B. Mander, M. J. N. Priestley, R. Park · Journal of Structural Engineering | Sep 1988 | 8,474 |
| 10 | Yielding of steel sheets containing slits D.S. Dugdale · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | May 1960 | 7,746 |
| 11 | Generating optimal topologies in structural design using a homogenization method Martin Philip Bendsøe, Noboru Kikuchi · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Nov 1988 | 7,508 |
| 12 | Analysis of crack formation and crack growth in concrete by means of fracture mechanics and finite elements Arne Hillerborg, Mats Modéer, Per-Erik Petersson · Cement and Concrete Research | Nov 1976 | 6,876 |
| 13 | A New Heuristic Optimization Algorithm: Harmony Search Zong Woo Geem, Joong Hoon Kim, G. V. Loganathan · SIMULATION | Feb 2001 | 6,288 |
| 14 | Wide Residual Networks Sergey Zagoruyko, Nikos Komodakis | 2016 | 6,132 |
| 15 | Cooling, Heating, Generating Power, and Recovering Waste Heat with Thermoelectric Systems Lon E. Bell · Science | 12 Sep 2008 | 6,108 |
| 16 | Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen: A rapid direct extraction method to measure microbial biomass nitrogen in soil P. C. Brookes, A. Landman, Gordon Pruden et al. · Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1985 | 5,901 |
| 17 | Least-squares frequency analysis of unequally spaced data Nick Lomb · Astrophysics and Space Science | Feb 1976 | 5,834 |
| 18 | Practical Issues in Structural Modeling Peter M. Bentler, Chih-Ping Chou · Sociological Methods & Research | Aug 1987 | 5,789 |
| 19 | Topology Optimization: Theory, Methods, and Applications Martin Philip Bendsøe, Ole Sigmund | 17 Sep 2011 | 5,759 |
| 20 | Element‐free Galerkin methods Ted Belytschko, Ye Lu, Linxia Gu · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | 30 Jan 1994 | 5,653 |
| 21 | High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys Bed Poudel, Qing Li Hao, Yi Ma et al. · Science | 20 Mar 2008 | 5,616 |
| 22 | The method of moving asymptotes—a new method for structural optimization Krister Svanberg · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | Feb 1987 | 5,593 |
| 23 | A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities Michel Bruneau, Stephanie E. Chang, Ronald T. Eguchi et al. · Earthquake Spectra | Nov 2003 | 5,448 |
| 24 | Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer Gordon Ellison | 8 Nov 2010 | 5,429 |
| 25 | Principal component analysis in linear systems: Controllability, observability, and model reduction B. C. Moore · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Feb 1981 | 5,320 |
| 26 | Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit R. Venkatasubramanian, Edward Siivola, T.S. Colpitts et al. · Nature | Oct 2001 | 5,210 |
| 27 | Finite Element Procedures in Engineering Analysis Klaus‐Jürgen Bathe, Hector Saunders · Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology | Nov 1984 | 5,195 |
| 28 | The finite element method. Linear static and dynamic finite element analysis Thomas Zimmermann · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Nov 1987 | 5,132 |
| 29 | A bonded-particle model for rock D.O. Potyondy, Peter A. Cundall · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences | Dec 2004 | 5,046 |
| 30 | Simulating dynamical features of escape panic Dirk Helbing, Illés J. Farkas, Tamás Vicsek · Nature | Sep 2000 | 4,954 |
| 31 | Two decades of array signal processing research: the parametric approach Hamid Krim, Mats Viberg · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | Jul 1996 | 4,756 |
| 32 | High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures Kanishka Biswas, Jiaqing He, Ivan D. Blum et al. · Nature | 18 Sep 2012 | 4,755 |
| 33 | Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art Peter Duxson, A. Fernández‐Jiménez, John L. Provis et al. · Journal of Materials Science | 18 Dec 2006 | 4,678 |
| 34 | Failure Criteria for Unidirectional Fiber Composites Zvi Hashin · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Jun 1980 | 4,592 |
| 35 | Optimal shape design as a material distribution problem Martin Philip Bendsøe · Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization | Dec 1989 | 4,565 |
| 36 | A plastic-damage model for concrete J. Lubliner, J. Oliver, Sergio Oller et al. · International Journal of Solids and Structures | 1989 | 4,387 |
| 37 | A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters Susan L. Cutter, Lindsey R. Barnes, Melissa M. Berry et al. · Global Environmental Change | Oct 2008 | 4,334 |
| 38 | Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics Yanzhong Pei, Xiaoya Shi, Aaron D. LaLonde et al. · Nature | May 2011 | 4,285 |
| 39 | A simple hydrologically based model of land surface water and energy fluxes for general circulation models Xu Liang, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Eric F. Wood et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 20 Jul 1994 | 4,252 |
| 40 | Geopolymers Joseph Davidovits · Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry | Aug 1991 | 4,247 |
| 41 | Incremental dynamic analysis Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, C. Allin Cornell · Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics | 19 Dec 2001 | 4,239 |
| 42 | Soil mechanics and plastic analysis or limit design Daniel C. Drucker, William Prager · Quarterly of Applied Mathematics | Jul 1952 | 4,159 |
| 43 | A Simple Higher-Order Theory for Laminated Composite Plates Junuthula Narasimha Reddy · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Dec 1984 | 4,150 |
| 44 | Friction of rocks James D. Byerlee · Pure and Applied Geophysics | Jul 1978 | 4,060 |
| 45 | New Directions for Low‐Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials M. S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, Ming Y. Tang et al. · Advanced Materials | 23 Mar 2007 | 4,040 |
| 46 | Theory of Elasticity (3rd ed.) Stephen P. Timoshenko, J. N. Goodier, Hanley N. Abramson · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Sep 1970 | 4,036 |
| 47 | Plastic-Damage Model for Cyclic Loading of Concrete Structures Jee-Ho Lee, Gregory L. Fenves · Journal of Engineering Mechanics | Aug 1998 | 4,035 |
| 48 | Analysis of Factors Controlling Soil Organic Matter Levels in Great Plains Grasslands W. J. Parton, D. Schimel, C. V. Cole et al. · Soil Science Society of America Journal | Sep 1987 | 3,845 |
| 49 | Photodetectors based on graphene, other two-dimensional materials and hybrid systems Frank H. L. Koppens, Thomas Mueller, Phaedon Avouris et al. · Nature Nanotechnology | Oct 2014 | 3,843 |
| 50 | Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Allen W. Hatheway · Environmental and Engineering Geoscience | Mar 1997 | 3,809 |
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