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Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research

Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research is a research topic within General Engineering. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1951. 9.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of multidisciplinary engineering research and development, including numerical simulation, experimental studies, technology optimization, and design analysis. The topics span from civil engineering to mechanical engineering, with a focus on innovative technologies and practical applications in various engineering fields.

  • Engineering
  • Research
  • Numerical Simulation
  • Experimental Study
  • Technology
  • Analysis
  • Design
  • Monitoring
  • Optimization
  • Development
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
82% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research

Which countries lead Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research research?

By volume, China and Japan publish the most (1.2k and 51 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 Japan 51 works
  3. 3 India 48 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 42 works
  5. 5 United States 41 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 26 works
  7. 7 ?? 22 works
  8. 8 Australia 20 works
  9. 9 Russia 18 works
  10. 10 Germany 14 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: 81.6%Japan: 3.4%India: 3.1%Indonesia: 2.7%6 others listed: 9.2%82%largest
China1,250 · 81.6%Japan51 · 3.4%India48 · 3.1%Indonesia42 · 2.7%6 others listed141 · 9.2%

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

Which institutions lead Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Southwest Jiaotong University publishes the most Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research research, followed by Tongji University and Central South University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 87 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 52 works
  3. 3 Central South UniversityChina 43 works
  4. 4 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 40 works
  5. 5 China Railway Group (China)China 37 works
  6. 6 Lanzhou Jiaotong UniversityChina 25 works
  7. 7 China Academy of Railway SciencesChina 22 works
  8. 8 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 20 works
  9. 9 Merchants Chongqing Communications Research and Design InstituteChina 19 works
  10. 10 Chang'an UniversityChina 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research include Xiaogang Wang, Kai You Wang and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Qiang Zhang China 184k 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 Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research?

The most cited paper in Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research is "Fundamentals of vehicle–track coupled dynamics" (Wanming Zhai, Kaiyun Wang, Chengbiao Cai, 2009), with 973 citations. Next come "Modelling of Railway Track and Vehicle/Track Interaction at High Frequencies" (678) and "Observational Procedure of Settlement Prediction" (597).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fundamentals of vehicle–track coupled dynamics Wanming Zhai, Kaiyun Wang, Chengbiao Cai · Vehicle System Dynamics 3 Mar 2009 973
2 Modelling of Railway Track and Vehicle/Track Interaction at High Frequencies Kl. Knothe, Stuart L. Grassie · Vehicle System Dynamics 1993 678
3 Observational Procedure of Settlement Prediction Akira Asaoka · SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS Dec 1978 597
4 STUDY ON ROCK MECHANICS IN DEEP MINING ENGINEERING Yaodong Jiang · Chinese journal of rock mechanics and engineering 2005 554
5 HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY LINES ON SOFT GROUND: DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR AT CRITICAL TRAIN SPEED Christian Madshus, Amir Massoud Kaynia · Journal of Sound and Vibration Mar 2000 431
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research research done?

The largest centres of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chengdu (China), Shanghai (China) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xuzhou, Lanzhou and Chengdu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 267 works
  2. 2 ChengduChina 108 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 102 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 57 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 51 works
  6. 6 ChongqingChina 51 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 48 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 40 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 39 works
  10. 10 LanzhouChina 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XuzhouCN · 20.6 works13×
  2. LanzhouCN · 37.0 works11×
  3. ChengduCN · 107.8 works9.7×
  4. NanchangCN · 24.1 works8.1×
  5. ChongqingCN · 50.6 works7.2×
  6. ChangshaCN · 57.0 works7.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest Jiaotong University, Central South University and Beijing Jiaotong 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%10%20%30%mean 18.12%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversitySouthwest Jiaotong U…Central South Univer…Beijing Jiaotong Uni…
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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
1Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 83.424.2%77.5×87 -8.3%
2Central South UniversityChina 74.521.6%15.1×43 +23.7%
3Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 73.119.5%45.4×40 +2.9%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 62.827.5%3.5×14 +11.1%
5Tongji UniversityChina 58.910.4%23.1×52 -14.2%
6China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 52.317.8%17.6×20 -11.8%
7Chang'an UniversityChina 48.815.0%33.4×18 +7.3%
8Southeast UniversityChina 47.724.5%4.5×10 -3.5%
9Lanzhou Jiaotong UniversityChina 42.710.4%75.1×26 +143.7%
10Hohai UniversityChina 38.110.3%9.9×8 +18.0%

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 Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research, country by country

Is Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research.

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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 Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research0.0071% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research 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%Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research10.5% 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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