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Civil and Structural Engineering Research

Civil and Structural Engineering Research is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in civil engineering and construction, including advancements in structural health monitoring, bridge engineering, geotechnical design, material properties, historical analysis of structures, sustainable development, and concrete technology. The papers also discuss infrastructure maintenance and the application of innovative technologies in the field.

  • Civil Engineering
  • Construction
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Bridge Engineering
  • Geotechnical Design
  • Material Properties
  • Historical Analysis
  • Sustainable Development
  • Concrete Technology
  • Infrastructure Maintenance
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
61% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Civil and Structural Engineering Research

Which countries lead Civil and Structural Engineering Research research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 127 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 127 works
  3. 3 Italy 124 works
  4. 4 Austria 114 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 99 works
  6. 6 China 92 works
  7. 7 Switzerland 75 works
  8. 8 Poland 65 works
  9. 9 Russia 48 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 47 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.

Germany: 60.7%United States: 6.3%Italy: 6.2%Austria: 5.7%6 others listed: 21.1%61%largest
Germany1,222 · 60.7%United States127 · 6.3%Italy124 · 6.2%Austria114 · 5.7%6 others listed426 · 21.1%

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

Which institutions lead Civil and Structural Engineering Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Technische Universität Dresden publishes the most Civil and Structural Engineering Research research, followed by RWTH Aachen University and Technical University of Munich.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 50 works
  2. 2 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 48 works
  3. 3 Technical University of MunichGermany 39 works
  4. 4 TU WienAustria 32 works
  5. 5 University of StuttgartGermany 29 works
  6. 6 Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany 29 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 26 works
  8. 8 Technische Universität BraunschweigGermany 25 works
  9. 9 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 25 works
  10. 10 Stuttgart ObservatoryGermany 24 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Civil and Structural Engineering Research include Matthias Egger, A. Meyer and A. Stahl.

  1. 1 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  2. 2 A. Meyer France 224k citations
  3. 3 A. Stahl Germany 170k citations
  4. 4 Stefan D. Anker Germany 146k citations
  5. 5 Martin Erdmann Germany 135k 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 Structural Engineering Research?

The most cited paper in Civil and Structural Engineering Research is "Theory of Thermal Stresses" (Bruno A. Boley, Jerome H. Weiner, Ellis H. Dill, 1961), with 2,269 citations. Next come "A numerical approach to the complete stress-strain curve of concrete" (2,056) and "Theory of Stress Concentration for Shear-Strained Prismatical Bodies With Arbitrary Nonlinear Stress-Strain Law" (1,556).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Theory of Thermal Stresses Bruno A. Boley, Jerome H. Weiner, Ellis H. Dill · Physics Today Mar 1961 2,269
2 A numerical approach to the complete stress-strain curve of concrete Sándor Popovics · Cement and Concrete Research Sep 1973 2,056
3 Theory of Stress Concentration for Shear-Strained Prismatical Bodies With Arbitrary Nonlinear Stress-Strain Law H. Neuber · Journal of Applied Mechanics Dec 1961 1,556
4 Elastic and Viscoelastic Foundation Models Arnold D. Kerr · Journal of Applied Mechanics Sep 1964 826
5 Structural Analysis of Masonry Historical Constructions. Classical and Advanced Approaches Pere Roca, Miguel Cervera, Giuseppe Gariup et al. · Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering Open access 21 Jul 2010 680
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Civil and Structural Engineering Research research done?

The largest centres of Civil and Structural Engineering Research research in 2022-now are Stuttgart (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany) and Aachen (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Regensburg and Stuttgart.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 StuttgartGermany 110 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 99 works
  3. 3 MunichGermany 80 works
  4. 4 AachenGermany 65 works
  5. 5 DresdenGermany 61 works
  6. 6 ViennaAustria 56 works
  7. 7 RegensburgGermany 54 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 42 works
  9. 9 KarlsruheGermany 37 works
  10. 10 DarmstadtGermany 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RegensburgDE · 54.0 works62×
  2. StuttgartDE · 109.8 works51×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Technische Universität Dresden, RWTH Aachen University and Technical University of Munich score highest, combining citation 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 16.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Politecnico di MilanoTechnische Universit…Technical University…RWTH Aachen 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.

Citation 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
1Technische Universität DresdenGermany 63.818.9%41.0×50 -8.5%
2RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 63.010.1%28.1×48 +8.3%
3Technical University of MunichGermany 63.011.1%20.7×39 +15.8%
4Politecnico di MilanoItaly 61.525.9%10.9×17 +26.4%
5University of Naples Federico IIItaly 59.632.9%7.6×12 -1.3%
6TU WienAustria 54.15.8%48.8×32 +6.7%
7ETH ZurichSwitzerland 52.916.4%10.7×16 +158.9%
8Ruhr University BochumGermany 47.221.8%22.9×20 -11.3%
9TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 46.24.6%45.6×25 +41.3%
10University of StuttgartGermany 44.913.0%38.5×29 -34.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Structural Engineering Research, country by country

Is Civil and Structural Engineering Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Structural Engineering Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Civil and Structural Engineering Research0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Civil and Structural 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 Structural Engineering Research9.6% 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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