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Engineering and Environmental Studies

Engineering and Environmental Studies is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 innovative mining technology, sustainable development, and environmental management in the context of resource extraction. It covers topics such as numerical modeling, gas transportation, welding techniques, and economic principles related to the mining industry.

  • Mining
  • Technology
  • Sustainable Development
  • Innovation
  • Environmental Management
  • Resource Extraction
  • Numerical Modeling
  • Gas Transportation
  • Welding
  • Economic Principles
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Engineering and Environmental Studies

Which countries lead Engineering and Environmental Studies research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (2.3k and 435 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 2.3k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 435 works
  3. 3 China 221 works
  4. 4 United States 143 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 138 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 130 works
  7. 7 Poland 66 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 56 works
  9. 9 Belarus 53 works
  10. 10 India 43 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: 64.0%Ukraine: 12.2%China: 6.2%United States: 4.0%6 others listed: 13.6%64%largest
Russia2,285 · 64.0%Ukraine435 · 12.2%China221 · 6.2%United States143 · 4.0%6 others listed485 · 13.6%

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

Which institutions lead Engineering and Environmental Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Engineering and Environmental Studies research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Saint Petersburg Mining University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 269 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 60 works
  3. 3 Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 51 works
  4. 4 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 49 works
  5. 5 Financial UniversityRussia 48 works
  6. 6 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 41 works
  7. 7 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 36 works
  8. 8 Kuzbass State Technical UniversityRussia 32 works
  9. 9 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 32 works
  10. 10 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 32 works

What are the most cited papers in Engineering and Environmental Studies?

The most cited paper in Engineering and Environmental Studies is "A Simple Method of Increasing the Adhesion of Acrylic Filling Materials to Enamel Surfaces" (Michael G. Buonocore, 1955), with 2,617 citations. Next come "Titanium alloys for marine application" (315) and "Influence of Test Method on Failure Stress of Brittle Dental Materials" (289).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Simple Method of Increasing the Adhesion of Acrylic Filling Materials to Enamel Surfaces Michael G. Buonocore · Journal of Dental Research Dec 1955 2,617
2 Titanium alloys for marine application I. V. Gorynin · Materials Science and Engineering A May 1999 315
3 Influence of Test Method on Failure Stress of Brittle Dental Materials Seiji Ban, K.J. Anusavice · Journal of Dental Research Dec 1990 289
4 Chemical factors that influence the performance of mine sulphidic paste backfill Mostafa Benzaazoua, Tikou Belem, Bruno Bussière · Cement and Concrete Research Open access Jul 2002 267
5 Titanium Alloys: Russian Aircraft and Aerospace Applications Valentin N. Moiseyev · International Linear Collider 13 Jul 2005 241
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Engineering and Environmental Studies research done?

The largest centres of Engineering and Environmental Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Yekaterinburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zaporizhzhya, Magnitogorsk and Bryansk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 689 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 202 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 119 works
  4. 4 YekaterinburgRussia 102 works
  5. 5 NovosibirskRussia 79 works
  6. 6 SamaraRussia 71 works
  7. 7 TashkentUzbekistan 71 works
  8. 8 IrkutskRussia 60 works
  9. 9 DniproUkraine 58 works
  10. 10 Kazan’Russia 58 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Zaporizhzhya25.4 works245×
  2. MagnitogorskRU · 24.1 works185×
  3. BryanskRU · 20.3 works114×
  4. KemerovoRU · 57.0 works110×
  5. Komsomol'skiyRU · 23.8 works99×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Engineering and Environmental Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Engineering and Environmental Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Saint Petersburg Mining University, Tashkent State Transport University and Satbayev 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 19.81%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Saint Petersburg Min…Tashkent State Trans…Dnipro University of…Satbayev 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
1Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 79.646.4%261.2×51 -42.8%
2Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 58.531.3%67.9×14 +173.6%
3Satbayev UniversityKazakhstan 56.920.7%72.8×18 +42.4%
4Dnipro University of TechnologyUkraine 56.023.3%153.1×29 -32.6%
5Financial UniversityRussia 54.410.6%62.0×48 -1.9%
6Navoi State Mining InstituteUzbekistan 50.421.2%249.9×15 +132.3%
7Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 49.515.1%67.7×36 -39.5%
8Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 48.36.8%103.2×49 -44.7%
9Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 48.213.4%64.4×41 -54.7%
10Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 46.69.3%44.6×32 -56.6%

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 Engineering and Environmental Studies, country by country

Is Engineering and Environmental Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% 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 Engineering and Environmental Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Engineering and Environmental Studies0.0099% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Engineering and Environmental Studies 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%Engineering and Environmental Studies10.7% 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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