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Earthquake and Tsunami Effects

Earthquake and Tsunami Effects is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 6.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of tsunamis on structures and infrastructure, including experimental investigations of tsunami forces, debris impact, coastal protection measures, and numerical modeling of tsunami-induced forces. The research aims to understand and mitigate the destructive effects of tsunamis on buildings, bridges, coastal walls, and other infrastructure.

  • Tsunami
  • Impact
  • Structures
  • Infrastructure
  • Experimental Investigation
  • Debris
  • Coastal
  • Forces
  • Hydrodynamic
  • Numerical Modeling
Research works
6.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
651
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Japan
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Earthquake and Tsunami Effects

Which countries lead Earthquake and Tsunami Effects research?

By volume, Japan and China publish the most (210 and 205 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Japan 210 works
  2. 2 China 205 works
  3. 3 United States 118 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 82 works
  5. 5 India 72 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 40 works
  7. 7 Italy 35 works
  8. 8 South Korea 32 works
  9. 9 Russia 23 works
  10. 10 Canada 18 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.

Japan: 25.2%China: 24.6%United States: 14.1%Indonesia: 9.8%6 others listed: 26.3%25%largest
Japan210 · 25.2%China205 · 24.6%United States118 · 14.1%Indonesia82 · 9.8%6 others listed219 · 26.3%

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

Which institutions lead Earthquake and Tsunami Effects research?

By volume in 2022-now, Dalian University of Technology publishes the most Earthquake and Tsunami Effects research, followed by Kyoto University and Bandung Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 11 works
  2. 2 Kyoto UniversityJapan 10 works
  3. 3 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 9 works
  4. 4 National Institute of Technology KarnatakaIndia 9 works
  5. 5 Tohoku UniversityJapan 9 works
  6. 6 The University of TokyoJapan 8 works
  7. 7 Indian Institute of Technology MadrasIndia 8 works
  8. 8 Hohai UniversityChina 7 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 7 works
  10. 10 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 7 works

What are the most cited papers in Earthquake and Tsunami Effects?

The most cited paper in Earthquake and Tsunami Effects is "Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering" (Allen W. Hatheway, 1997), with 3,809 citations. Next come "Wave energy utilization: A review of the technologies" (2,726) and "Survey of 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami inundation and run-up" (706).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Allen W. Hatheway · Environmental and Engineering Geoscience Mar 1997 3,809
2 Wave energy utilization: A review of the technologies António F.O. Falcão · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 27 Nov 2009 2,726
3 Survey of 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami inundation and run-up Nobuhito Mori, Tomoyuki TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro YASUDA et al. · Geophysical Research Letters Apr 2011 706
4 10. A Simple Pendulum Technique for Achieving Seismic Isolation Victor A. Zayas, Stanley Low, Stephen A. Mahin · Earthquake Spectra May 1990 532
5 Experimental investigation of wave propagation over a bar Serdar Beji, J.A. Battjes · Coastal Engineering Feb 1993 528
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Earthquake and Tsunami Effects research done?

The largest centres of Earthquake and Tsunami Effects research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), Shanghai (China) and Kyoto (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tokyo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 66 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 32 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 17 works
  4. 4 KyotoJapan 14 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 14 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 14 works
  7. 7 DalianChina 13 works
  8. 8 JakartaIndonesia 13 works
  9. 9 OsakaJapan 13 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TokyoJP · 66.1 works7.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Earthquake and Tsunami Effects than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Earthquake and Tsunami Effects?

Among universities, judged by research, Dalian University of Technology, National Institute of Technology Karnataka and Kyoto 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%20%40%mean 14.2333%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dalian University of…National Institute o…Bandung Institute of…Kyoto 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
1Dalian University of TechnologyChina 93.230.3%12.4×11 +18.0%
2National Institute of Technology KarnatakaIndia 59.521.1%51.9×9 +113.2%
3Kyoto UniversityJapan 45.35.6%14.5×10 -44.6%
4Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 39.310.1%14.5×9 +52.3%
5Tohoku UniversityJapan 36.15.7%14.0×9 -33.2%
6The University of TokyoJapan 22.212.6%7.0×8 -17.1%

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 Earthquake and Tsunami Effects, country by country

Is Earthquake and Tsunami Effects research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 Earthquake and Tsunami Effects as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0040% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Earthquake and Tsunami Effects0.0045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Earthquake and Tsunami Effects 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%Earthquake and Tsunami Effects11.4% 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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