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Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation

Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses advancements in asphalt materials and technology, including research on bitumen modification, rheological properties, recycled materials, polymer modification, warm mix technologies, rejuvenators, nanomaterials, pavement engineering, and life cycle assessment.

  • Asphalt
  • Bitumen Modification
  • Rheology
  • Recycled Materials
  • Polymer Modification
  • Warm Mix
  • Rejuvenators
  • Nanomaterials
  • Pavement Engineering
  • Life Cycle Assessment
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation

Which countries lead Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.1k and 851 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 United States 851 works
  3. 3 India 625 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 275 works
  5. 5 Iran 211 works
  6. 6 Iraq 205 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 157 works
  8. 8 Italy 144 works
  9. 9 Brazil 137 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 136 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 53.3%United States: 14.5%India: 10.6%Indonesia: 4.7%6 others listed: 16.9%53%largest
China3,125 · 53.3%United States851 · 14.5%India625 · 10.6%Indonesia275 · 4.7%6 others listed990 · 16.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chang'an University publishes the most Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation research, followed by Southeast University and Tongji University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chang'an UniversityChina 263 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 151 works
  3. 3 Tongji UniversityChina 130 works
  4. 4 Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina 125 works
  5. 5 Chongqing Jiaotong UniversityChina 81 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 71 works
  7. 7 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 69 works
  8. 8 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 66 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 56 works
  10. 10 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 45 works

Who are the leading researchers in Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  5. 5 Vivekanand Jha India 180k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation?

The most cited paper in Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation is "Generalizing the finite element method: Diffuse approximation and diffuse elements" (Bernard Nayroles, Gilbert Touzot, Pierre Villon, 1992), with 1,995 citations. Next come "Automatic Road Crack Detection Using Random Structured Forests" (1,567) and "Road crack detection using deep convolutional neural network" (1,500).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Generalizing the finite element method: Diffuse approximation and diffuse elements Bernard Nayroles, Gilbert Touzot, Pierre Villon · Computational Mechanics 1992 1,995
2 Automatic Road Crack Detection Using Random Structured Forests Yong Shi, Limeng Cui, Zhiquan Qi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 18 May 2016 1,567
3 Road crack detection using deep convolutional neural network Lei Zhang, Fan Yang, Yimin Daniel Zhang et al. Conference paper 17 Aug 2016 1,500
4 Feature Pyramid and Hierarchical Boosting Network for Pavement Crack Detection Fan Yang, Lei Zhang, Sijia Yu et al. · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 25 Apr 2019 1,220
5 A fast and efficient response surface approach for structural reliability problems Christian G. Bucher, Ulrich Bourgund · Structural Safety 1990 1,201
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation research done?

The largest centres of Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Houghton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 351 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 322 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 274 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 228 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 189 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 160 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 145 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 130 works
  9. 9 JinanChina 114 works
  10. 10 BaghdadIraq 109 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HoughtonUS · 22.9 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation?

Among universities, judged by research, Chang'an University, Southeast University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 21.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Delft University of …Hong Kong Polytechni…Southeast UniversityChang'an University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Chang'an UniversityChina 77.821.0%102.3×263 +22.4%
2Southeast UniversityChina 76.523.2%14.8×151 +51.8%
3Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 76.223.7%7.0×41 +69.2%
4Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 71.530.7%5.8×27 +15.8%
5Tongji UniversityChina 69.218.0%12.3×130 +31.0%
6Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 63.819.4%6.4×72 +57.3%
7Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.014.6%73.5×125 +87.9%
8RMIT UniversityAustralia 62.228.1%4.9×13 -6.5%
9Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 61.820.5%12.6×69 -2.7%
10Central South UniversityChina 61.319.6%4.2×56 +111.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation, country by country

Is Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation 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.

still counting5%10%15%Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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