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Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics

Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on modeling pedestrian dynamics, crowd behavior, and emergency evacuations using techniques such as cellular automaton, social force model, and agent-based modeling. It explores various aspects of pedestrian movement, evacuation decision-making, and crowd simulations in both normal and emergency situations.

  • Pedestrian Dynamics
  • Evacuation
  • Crowd Behavior
  • Simulation
  • Cellular Automaton
  • Social Force Model
  • Emergency Evacuation
  • Agent-Based Modeling
  • Human Behavior
  • Crowd Simulation
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics

Which countries lead Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.3k and 722 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.3k works
  2. 2 United States 722 works
  3. 3 Japan 498 works
  4. 4 India 283 works
  5. 5 South Korea 184 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 175 works
  7. 7 Germany 172 works
  8. 8 Italy 135 works
  9. 9 Canada 121 works
  10. 10 France 120 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: 49.3%United States: 15.2%Japan: 10.5%India: 6.0%6 others listed: 19.1%49%largest
China2,341 · 49.3%United States722 · 15.2%Japan498 · 10.5%India283 · 6.0%6 others listed907 · 19.1%

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

Which institutions lead Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Science and Technology of China publishes the most Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics research, followed by Tsinghua University and Tongji University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 63 works
  2. 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 60 works
  3. 3 Tongji UniversityChina 60 works
  4. 4 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 55 works
  5. 5 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 52 works
  6. 6 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 48 works
  7. 7 Southeast UniversityChina 44 works
  8. 8 Central South UniversityChina 43 works
  9. 9 The University of TokyoJapan 42 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics include Xiaogang Wang, Lídia Morawska and Li Fei-Fei.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  3. 3 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 David C. Schwebel United States 210k citations
  6. 6 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 177k citations
  7. 7 Xin Wu France 165k 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 Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics is "Social force model for pedestrian dynamics" (Dirk Helbing, Péter Molnár, 1995), with 6,959 citations. Next come "Measuring Presence in Virtual Environments: A Presence Questionnaire" (6,358) and "Simulating dynamical features of escape panic" (4,954).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social force model for pedestrian dynamics Dirk Helbing, Péter Molnár · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics Open access May 1995 6,959
2 Measuring Presence in Virtual Environments: A Presence Questionnaire Bob G. Witmer, Michael Jay Singer · PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality Jun 1998 6,358
3 Simulating dynamical features of escape panic Dirk Helbing, Illés J. Farkas, Tamás Vicsek · Nature Open access Sep 2000 4,954
4 Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for simulating human systems Eric W. Bonabeau · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 14 May 2002 4,562
5 Shock Waves on the Highway Paul I. Richards · Operations Research Feb 1956 3,683
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Where is Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xuzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 461 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 193 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 181 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 138 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 122 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 112 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 97 works
  8. 8 HefeiChina 94 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 78 works
  10. 10 Hong KongChina 73 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XuzhouCN · 50.2 works8.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Tsinghua 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 21.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Hong Kong Polytechni…Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of Scienc…
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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
1City University of Hong KongChina 72.527.6%7.7×24 +35.3%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 71.827.4%8.0×37 +97.7%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 68.221.8%4.8×60 +45.6%
4University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 67.114.4%9.8×63 +6.8%
5Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 65.138.9%2.9×13 +19.0%
6China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 64.320.6%11.2×48 +118.8%
7Southeast UniversityChina 63.521.8%5.4×44 +87.3%
8Tongji UniversityChina 61.215.5%7.2×60 +32.6%
9Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 59.612.7%13.3×55 +12.9%
10Central South UniversityChina 58.116.2%4.1×43 +52.1%

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 Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics, country by country

Is Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics.

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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 Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics 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.

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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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