Dam Engineering and Safety
Dam Engineering and Safety is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 20.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the statistics, mechanisms, and modelling of embankment dam failures, including topics such as internal erosion, piping phenomena, seismic analysis, suffusion characteristics in granular soils, and the deformation of concrete dams. It also explores hydraulic gradients and breaching parameters.
- Embankment Dams
- Internal Erosion
- Piping Phenomena
- Dam Behaviour Modelling
- Seismic Analysis
- Suffusion Characteristics
- Granular Soils
- Concrete Dam Deformation
- Hydraulic Gradients
- Breaching Parameters
- Research works
- 17k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 3.5k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 20.4% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +53% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Dam Engineering and Safety research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (1.9k and 266 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.9k works
- 2 India 266 works
- 3 United States 219 works
- 4 Iran 138 works
- 5 Japan 95 works
- 6 Italy 92 works
- 7 Canada 76 works
- 8 Türkiye 76 works
- 9 United Kingdom 66 works
- 10 Indonesia 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Dam Engineering and Safety research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Hohai University publishes the most Dam Engineering and Safety research, followed by Tongji University and Xi'an University of Technology.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Hohai UniversityChina 104 works
- 2 Tongji UniversityChina 55 works
- 3 Xi'an University of TechnologyChina 44 works
- 4 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 41 works
- 5 Central South UniversityChina 39 works
- 6 Wuhan UniversityChina 35 works
- 7 China University of GeosciencesChina 34 works
- 8 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 34 works
- 9 Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteChina 31 works
- 10 Chongqing UniversityChina 31 works
Who are the leading researchers in Dam Engineering and Safety?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Dam Engineering and Safety include O. C. Zienkiewicz and Fausto Guzzetti.
- 1 O. C. Zienkiewicz United Kingdom 1.8k citations
- 2 Fausto Guzzetti Italy 1.7k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Dam Engineering and Safety research done?
The largest centres of Dam Engineering and Safety research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Wuhan (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yichang and Xuzhou.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- YichangCN · 25.4 works27×
- XuzhouCN · 35.2 works10×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dam Engineering and Safety than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Dam Engineering and Safety?
Among universities, judged by research, China University of Geosciences, Chongqing University and National Institute of Technology Patna 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China University of GeosciencesChina | 73.3 | 64.4% | 19.8× | 34 | +18.7% |
| 2 | Chongqing UniversityChina | 60.6 | 45.7% | 7.4× | 31 | +107.4% |
| 3 | National Institute of Technology PatnaIndia | 59.7 | 51.8% | 25.3× | 14 | — |
| 4 | Tongji UniversityChina | 58.3 | 29.8% | 11.2× | 55 | -11.7% |
| 5 | Chengdu University of TechnologyChina | 58.2 | 45.2% | 24.1× | 26 | -20.3% |
| 6 | Hohai UniversityChina | 58.1 | 23.9% | 49.6× | 104 | -53.0% |
| 7 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 58.1 | 59.8% | 5.3× | 17 | -5.0% |
| 8 | Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia | 57.5 | 26.4% | 9.5× | 16 | +539.3% |
| 9 | Dalian University of TechnologyChina | 57.1 | 37.4% | 11.4× | 41 | -41.5% |
| 10 | China University of Mining and TechnologyChina | 56.9 | 28.5% | 11.1× | 34 | +56.6% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Dam Engineering and Safety research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 53% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dam Engineering and Safety.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.