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Concrete Corrosion and Durability

Concrete Corrosion and Durability is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 44k 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 focuses on the corrosion of reinforcement in concrete structures, including topics such as chloride-induced corrosion, structural reliability, monitoring techniques, corrosion rate measurement, bond behavior, and life-cycle cost analysis. The papers discuss various aspects of reinforcement corrosion and its impact on the durability and performance of concrete structures.

  • Corrosion
  • Reinforced Concrete
  • Chloride-induced
  • Structural Reliability
  • Monitoring Techniques
  • Service Life Prediction
  • Corrosion Rate Measurement
  • Bond Behavior
  • Life-cycle Cost Analysis
  • Cathodic Protection
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Concrete Corrosion and Durability

Which countries lead Concrete Corrosion and Durability research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.9k and 766 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.9k works
  2. 2 United States 766 works
  3. 3 India 747 works
  4. 4 Italy 365 works
  5. 5 Germany 313 works
  6. 6 Japan 287 works
  7. 7 Canada 262 works
  8. 8 Iran 250 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 250 works
  10. 10 Egypt 237 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: 53.2%United States: 10.3%India: 10.1%Italy: 4.9%6 others listed: 21.5%53%largest
China3,946 · 53.2%United States766 · 10.3%India747 · 10.1%Italy365 · 4.9%6 others listed1,599 · 21.5%

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

Which institutions lead Concrete Corrosion and Durability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Concrete Corrosion and Durability research, followed by Southeast University and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 143 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 131 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 73 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 72 works
  5. 5 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 69 works
  6. 6 Hohai UniversityChina 65 works
  7. 7 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 63 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 62 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 60 works
  10. 10 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 59 works

Who are the leading researchers in Concrete Corrosion and Durability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Concrete Corrosion and Durability include Matthias Egger, Wei Huang and Xiaogang Wang.

  1. 1 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  6. 6 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  7. 7 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  8. 8 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  9. 9 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  10. 10 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k 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 Concrete Corrosion and Durability?

The most cited paper in Concrete Corrosion and Durability is "Theoretical Stress‐Strain Model for Confined Concrete" (J.B. Mander, M. J. N. Priestley, R. Park, 1988), with 8,474 citations. Next come "An introduction to structural health monitoring" (2,613) and "Principles and prevention of corrosion" (2,443).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Theoretical Stress‐Strain Model for Confined Concrete J.B. Mander, M. J. N. Priestley, R. Park · Journal of Structural Engineering Sep 1988 8,474
2 An introduction to structural health monitoring Charles R. Farrar, Keith Worden · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 12 Dec 2006 2,613
3 Principles and prevention of corrosion Robert S. Walker · Materials & Design (1980-2015) 1993 2,443
4 Estimation of small failure probabilities in high dimensions by subset simulation Siu‐Kui Au, James L. Beck · Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics Oct 2001 2,428
5 Making best use of model evaluations to compute sensitivity indices Andrea Saltelli · Computer Physics Communications Open access May 2002 2,240
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Where is Concrete Corrosion and Durability research done?

The largest centres of Concrete Corrosion and Durability research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kenitra and Dhahran.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 566 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 298 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 245 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 192 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 164 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 158 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 153 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 138 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 124 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 122 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KenitraMA · 28.1 works13×
  2. DhahranSA · 56.6 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Concrete Corrosion and Durability than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Concrete Corrosion and Durability?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Southeast University and Hunan University 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 21.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest Forestry U…Hong Kong Polytechni…Hunan UniversitySoutheast 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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 81.129.5%7.6×63 +59.2%
2Southeast UniversityChina 71.616.6%9.2×131 +44.2%
3Hunan UniversityChina 69.127.2%6.7×46 +74.9%
4Southwest Forestry UniversityChina 65.231.8%10.7×12 +146.9%
5Tongji UniversityChina 65.112.0%9.7×143 +53.5%
6University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 64.319.4%9.7×72 +33.5%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 63.319.6%4.7×73 +24.6%
8Guangzhou UniversityChina 61.720.9%9.8×34 +183.5%
9Université Ibn-TofailMorocco 61.620.9%14.8×28 +9.3%
10Chongqing UniversityChina 61.517.2%5.1×53 +52.7%

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 Concrete Corrosion and Durability, country by country

Is Concrete Corrosion and Durability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Concrete Corrosion and Durability.

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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 Concrete Corrosion and Durability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.046% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Concrete Corrosion and Durability0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Concrete Corrosion and Durability 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%Concrete Corrosion and Durability9.8% 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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