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Construction Management and Sustainability

Construction Management and Sustainability is a research topic within Building and Construction. Science Explorer counts 4.4k research works in it since 1975. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on sustainable urban development, construction practices, and energy-efficient solutions. It covers topics such as renewable energy sources, building insulation, historic building reconstruction, smart city technologies, environmental assessment, and infrastructure projects. The papers explore methods to improve energy efficiency, utilize renewable energy sources, and assess the environmental impact of construction projects within urban areas.

  • Sustainable Urban Development
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Renewable Energy Sources
  • Building Insulation
  • Historic Building Reconstruction
  • Smart City Technologies
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Infrastructure Projects
  • Construction Management
  • Urban Environmental Quality
Research works
4.4k
fractional, since 1975
In the world top 10%
441
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
66% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Construction Management and Sustainability

Which countries lead Construction Management and Sustainability research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (912 and 210 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 912 works
  2. 2 Ukraine 210 works
  3. 3 United States 76 works
  4. 4 Kazakhstan 47 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 44 works
  6. 6 China 32 works
  7. 7 Poland 24 works
  8. 8 Belarus 16 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 12 works
  10. 10 Bulgaria 10 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.

Russia: 65.9%Ukraine: 15.2%United States: 5.5%Kazakhstan: 3.4%6 others listed: 10.0%66%largest
Russia912 · 65.9%Ukraine210 · 15.2%United States76 · 5.5%Kazakhstan47 · 3.4%6 others listed138 · 10.0%

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

Which institutions lead Construction Management and Sustainability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering publishes the most Construction Management and Sustainability research, followed by Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture and Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 182 works
  2. 2 Kyiv National University of Construction and ArchitectureUkraine 39 works
  3. 3 Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil EngineeringRussia 37 works
  4. 4 Samara State Technical UniversityRussia 34 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 33 works
  6. 6 Don State Technical UniversityRussia 31 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 18 works
  8. 8 Irkutsk National Research Technical UniversityRussia 18 works
  9. 9 O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in KharkivUkraine 17 works
  10. 10 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Construction Management and Sustainability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Construction Management and Sustainability include Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Dmitry Ivanov and Albert P.C. Chan.

  1. 1 Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas Lithuania 56k citations
  2. 2 Dmitry Ivanov Germany 40k citations
  3. 3 Albert P.C. Chan China 38k 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 Construction Management and Sustainability?

The most cited paper in Construction Management and Sustainability is "Energy and environmental benefits in public buildings as a result of retrofit actions" (Fulvio Ardente, Marco Beccali, Maurizio Cellura et al., 2010), with 257 citations. Next come "SPREAD OF ANALGESIC SOLUTIONS IN THE EPIDURAL SPACE AND THEIR SITE OF ACTION: A STATISTICAL STUDY" (197) and "A review of the current work potential of a trombe wall" (174).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Energy and environmental benefits in public buildings as a result of retrofit actions Fulvio Ardente, Marco Beccali, Maurizio Cellura et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 26 Sep 2010 257
2 SPREAD OF ANALGESIC SOLUTIONS IN THE EPIDURAL SPACE AND THEIR SITE OF ACTION: A STATISTICAL STUDY Philip R. Bromage · British Journal of Anaesthesia Open access Mar 1962 197
3 A review of the current work potential of a trombe wall Kostikov Sergei, Chao Shen, Yiqiang Jiang · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 9 Jun 2020 174
4 The use of a virtual building design and construction model for developing an effective project concept in 5D environment Vladimir M. Popov, Virgaudas Juocevicius, Darius Migilinskas et al. · Automation in Construction 25 Jan 2010 154
5 Modular Buildings in Modern Construction Elena Mikhaylovna GENERALOVA, Viktor P. Generalov, Anna Andreevna Kuznetsova · Procedia Engineering Conference paperOpen access 2016 151
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Where is Construction Management and Sustainability research done?

The largest centres of Construction Management and Sustainability research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Rostov-on-Don (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Samara, Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 354 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 93 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 76 works
  4. 4 Rostov-on-DonRussia 43 works
  5. 5 SamaraRussia 41 works
  6. 6 VoronezhRussia 34 works
  7. 7 WeatherfordUnited States 33 works
  8. 8 IrkutskRussia 31 works
  9. 9 KharkivUkraine 29 works
  10. 10 NovosibirskRussia 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SamaraRU · 40.9 works64×
  2. VoronezhRU · 34.2 works63×
  3. Rostov-on-DonRU · 42.9 works61×
  4. IrkutskRU · 31.4 works59×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Construction Management and Sustainability than the world average.

See Construction Management and Sustainability on the map

Where is the best place to study Construction Management and Sustainability?

Among universities, judged by research, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Don State Technical University and Weatherford College 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%mean 10.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Don State Technical …L. N. Gumilyov Euras…Moscow State Univers…Weatherford College
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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
1Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 58.410.1%999.8×182 -53.5%
2Don State Technical UniversityRussia 55.017.0%201.1×31 -55.4%
3Weatherford CollegeUnited States 50.79.3%18.7×33 +589.2%
4L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National UniversityKazakhstan 46.610.4%47.7×10 +217.1%
5Kyiv National University of Construction and ArchitectureUkraine 45.710.2%509.7×39 -8.5%
6Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 45.313.3%49.7×14 -74.4%
7Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 43.86.1%158.5×14 +7.4%
8O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in KharkivUkraine 42.612.5%211.0×17 +15.9%
9Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 42.08.7%25.2×11 +22.1%
10Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 41.010.8%34.3×12 +15.9%

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 Construction Management and Sustainability, country by country

Is Construction Management and Sustainability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Construction Management and Sustainability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0040% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Construction Management and Sustainability0.0051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Construction Management and Sustainability 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%Construction Management and Sustainability10.5% in 20252020

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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