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Concrete Properties and Behavior

Concrete Properties and Behavior is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1951. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the mechanisms and mitigation strategies for autogenous shrinkage in high-performance cement-based materials. It explores the use of internal curing, superabsorbent polymers, and shrinkage-reducing admixtures to address early-age behavior, cracking resistance, and hygro-thermo-chemo-mechanical modeling of concrete. The research also delves into the effects of drying shrinkage and the development of strategies to control autogenous shrinkage in concrete.

  • Autogenous Shrinkage
  • Internal Curing
  • Superabsorbent Polymers
  • Concrete
  • Shrinkage-reducing Admixtures
  • High-performance Cement-based Materials
  • Early-age Behavior
  • Cracking Resistance
  • Hygro-thermo-chemo-mechanical Modeling
  • Drying Shrinkage
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+40%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Concrete Properties and Behavior

Which countries lead Concrete Properties and Behavior research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.5k and 278 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 278 works
  3. 3 United States 233 works
  4. 4 Japan 127 works
  5. 5 South Korea 91 works
  6. 6 France 86 works
  7. 7 Germany 81 works
  8. 8 Brazil 71 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 67 works
  10. 10 Iraq 65 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: 58.4%India: 10.5%United States: 8.8%Japan: 4.8%6 others listed: 17.4%58%largest
China1,546 · 58.4%India278 · 10.5%United States233 · 8.8%Japan127 · 4.8%6 others listed462 · 17.4%

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

Which institutions lead Concrete Properties and Behavior research?

By volume in 2022-now, Southeast University publishes the most Concrete Properties and Behavior research, followed by Hohai University and Tongji University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Southeast UniversityChina 60 works
  2. 2 Hohai UniversityChina 56 works
  3. 3 Tongji UniversityChina 51 works
  4. 4 Central South UniversityChina 32 works
  5. 5 Chang'an UniversityChina 30 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 30 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 26 works
  8. 8 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 24 works
  9. 9 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 23 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Concrete Properties and Behavior?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Concrete Properties and Behavior include Hao Chen and Ki‐Hyun Kim.

  1. 1 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  2. 2 Ki‐Hyun Kim South Korea 108k 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 Properties and Behavior?

The most cited paper in Concrete Properties and Behavior is "Mechanisms of cement hydration" (Jeffrey W. Bullard, Hamlin M. Jennings, Richard A. Livingston et al., 2010), with 2,219 citations. Next come "Advances in alternative cementitious binders" (1,851) and "New cements for the 21st century: The pursuit of an alternative to Portland cement" (1,695).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mechanisms of cement hydration Jeffrey W. Bullard, Hamlin M. Jennings, Richard A. Livingston et al. · Cement and Concrete Research Open access 30 Oct 2010 2,219
2 Advances in alternative cementitious binders Maria C. G. Juenger, Frank Winnefeld, John L. Provis et al. · Cement and Concrete Research 15 Dec 2010 1,851
3 New cements for the 21st century: The pursuit of an alternative to Portland cement Caijun Shi, A. Fernández‐Jiménez, A. Palomo · Cement and Concrete Research 9 May 2011 1,695
4 The Interfacial Transition Zone (ITZ) Between Cement Paste and Aggregate in Concrete Karen Louise Scrivener, Alison K. Crumbie, Peter Laugesen · Interface Science Open access 21 Sep 2004 1,435
5 Metakaolin and calcined clays as pozzolans for concrete: a review B. B. Sabir, Stan Wild, Jiping Bai · Cement and Concrete Composites Dec 2001 1,360
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Where is Concrete Properties and Behavior research done?

The largest centres of Concrete Properties and Behavior research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 214 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 161 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 88 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 84 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 82 works
  6. 6 ChangshaChina 71 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 50 works
  8. 8 ZhengzhouChina 47 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 45 works
  10. 10 JinanChina 45 works
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Where is the best place to study Concrete Properties and Behavior?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Southeast University and Hunan 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 17.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Hunan UniversitySoutheast UniversityTongji 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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 78.028.4%6.2×17 +204.1%
2Southeast UniversityChina 74.216.9%13.0×60 +102.2%
3Hunan UniversityChina 70.023.4%8.4×19 +16.7%
4Tongji UniversityChina 66.814.7%10.7×51 +66.6%
5Hohai UniversityChina 65.511.7%30.4×56 +42.4%
6Chang'an UniversityChina 62.118.0%26.1×30 +43.3%
7Central South UniversityChina 57.814.8%5.3×32 +72.5%
8Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 57.517.0%9.6×24 +20.1%
9Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 56.617.0%5.8×30 +44.0%
10Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 55.215.7%24.9×23 +127.3%

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 Concrete Properties and Behavior, country by country

Is Concrete Properties and Behavior research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Concrete Properties and Behavior.

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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 Properties and Behavior as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Concrete Properties and Behavior 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 Properties and Behavior10.2% 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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