Geophysical Methods and Applications

Geophysical Methods and Applications is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 50k 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 explores the diverse applications of Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) in geoscience and engineering, including sedimentology, soil water content measurement, non-destructive testing in civil engineering, landmine detection, concrete inspection, hydrogeological studies, and archaeological prospection. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to the principles, problems, progress, and various techniques for GPR applications.

Ground-Penetrating Radar
Sedimentology
Soil Water Content
Non-Destructive Testing
Civil Engineering
Landmine Detection
Concrete Inspection
Hydrogeological Studies
Archaeological Prospection
Geophysical Surveys

Research works: 50k
In the world top 10%: 5k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +9%
Largest producer: China

Geophysical Methods and Applications

Which countries lead Geophysical Methods and Applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4.2k and 989 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 4.2k works
2 United States 989 works
3 India 473 works
4 Italy 373 works
5 Germany 255 works
6 France 253 works
7 Japan 249 works
8 United Kingdom 248 works
9 South Korea 195 works
10 Russia 190 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.

China4,240 · 56.8%United States989 · 13.3%India473 · 6.3%Italy373 · 5.0%6 others listed1,390 · 18.6%

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

Which institutions lead Geophysical Methods and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Geophysical Methods and Applications research, followed by China University of Mining and Technology and Central South University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 205 works
2 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 187 works
3 Central South UniversityChina 118 works
4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 84 works
5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 81 works
6 Jilin UniversityChina 77 works
7 Tongji UniversityChina 76 works
8 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 75 works
9 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 64 works
10 Xidian UniversityChina 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geophysical Methods and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geophysical Methods and Applications include Jian Sun, Yann LeCun and P. Jackson.

1 Jian Sun 281k citations
2 Yann LeCun United States 256k citations
3 P. Jackson France 230k citations
4 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Geophysical Methods and Applications?

The most cited paper in Geophysical Methods and Applications is "Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition" (Yann LeCun, Bernhard E. Boser, J. S. Denker et al., 1989), with 12,102 citations. Next come "Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks" (10,296) and "Adversarial Discriminative Domain Adaptation" (5,102).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition Yann LeCun, Bernhard E. Boser, J. S. Denker et al. · Neural Computation	Dec 1989	12,102
2	Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper	2016	10,296
3	Adversarial Discriminative Domain Adaptation Eric Tzeng, Judy Hoffman, Kate Saenko et al. Conference paper	Jul 2017	5,102
4	The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Dara Entekhabi et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE Open access	May 2010	3,855
5	An overview of full-waveform inversion in exploration geophysics J. Virieux, Stéphane Operto · Geophysics	2009	3,767

All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Geophysical Methods and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Geophysical Methods and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Changsha (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xuzhou, Huainan and Golden.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 891 works
2 Xi'anChina 257 works
3 ChangshaChina 227 works
4 ChengduChina 223 works
5 NanjingChina 216 works
6 ShanghaiChina 201 works
7 WuhanChina 196 works
8 XuzhouChina 188 works
9 QingdaoChina 125 works
10 ChangchunChina 114 works

Where it is the local speciality

XuzhouCN · 187.5 works21×
HuainanCN · 32.1 works11×
GoldenUS · 20.2 works8.4×
JiaozuoCN · 21.2 works6.9×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Geophysical Methods and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Geophysical Methods and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and China University of Mining and Technology 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Central South UniversityChina	74.1	26.6%	7.2×	118	+67.0%
2	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	73.0	34.3%	4.1×	30	+43.3%
3	China University of Mining and TechnologyChina	72.1	17.0%	28.1×	187	+37.7%
4	Southeast UniversityChina	66.5	30.6%	4.2×	52	+100.0%
5	Sichuan UniversityChina	64.7	33.7%	1.2×	24	+40.7%
6	Northeastern UniversityChina	63.9	28.7%	3.7×	28	+48.0%
7	Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina	61.2	28.0%	5.6×	37	+137.8%
8	Shenzhen UniversityChina	60.9	23.4%	4.4×	28	+360.4%
9	Chongqing UniversityChina	60.0	22.0%	5.4×	50	+14.6%
10	Hohai UniversityChina	59.4	21.4%	8.3×	41	+31.3%
11	Tongji UniversityChina	59.0	16.4%	5.8×	76	+43.5%
12	Guangzhou UniversityChina	58.9	27.4%	5.8×	18	+131.1%
13	City University of Hong KongChina	57.7	28.4%	2.0×	10	+14.8%
14	Guangxi UniversityChina	56.9	28.9%	2.4×	12	+126.5%
15	University of Science and Technology BeijingChina	55.7	21.2%	5.0×	33	+39.2%
16	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	55.5	20.0%	2.9×	19	+64.7%
17	University of Hong KongChina	54.5	30.0%	1.1×	9	+34.2%
18	Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina	53.4	16.9%	8.4×	34	+21.6%
19	Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina	52.9	20.5%	13.6×	26	+25.6%
20	Chang'an UniversityChina	52.8	19.0%	10.1×	32	+14.7%
21	Dalian University of TechnologyChina	52.8	19.0%	3.8×	30	+29.2%
22	China University of GeosciencesChina	52.4	12.4%	11.4×	44	+28.7%
23	Shandong UniversityChina	52.1	17.9%	3.6×	40	+63.2%
24	Wuhan UniversityChina	52.0	21.5%	2.7×	32	+27.8%
25	Monash UniversityAustralia	50.2	30.3%	1.7×	14	-5.5%
26	National University of Defense TechnologyChina	50.0	11.7%	9.8×	64	+24.3%
27	Beijing University of TechnologyChina	49.8	20.4%	4.7×	28	+139.8%
28	Tianjin UniversityChina	49.0	18.7%	2.5×	26	+56.7%
29	Zhengzhou UniversityChina	48.9	27.0%	1.9×	19	+187.3%
30	University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina	48.5	7.9%	7.9×	75	+14.5%
31	University of Technology SydneyAustralia	48.5	23.6%	2.8×	11	+65.0%
32	Jilin UniversityChina	48.1	5.5%	7.9×	77	+32.1%
33	Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina	47.7	20.0%	8.9×	19	+161.7%
34	Guizhou UniversityChina	47.6	22.3%	3.8×	16	+357.2%
35	Tsinghua UniversityChina	46.8	16.9%	2.0×	39	+8.3%
36	Hunan UniversityChina	46.8	31.5%	1.4×	9	+140.9%
37	Xidian UniversityChina	46.6	10.2%	9.3×	57	-1.4%
38	Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina	46.6	13.2%	13.6×	28	+55.8%
39	Zhejiang UniversityChina	45.8	15.8%	2.0×	46	+7.1%
40	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina	45.6	14.5%	3.3×	46	+0.2%
41	Chengdu University of TechnologyChina	45.6	7.0%	12.8×	42	+89.9%
42	Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina	45.4	9.3%	3.4×	48	+50.6%
43	China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China	43.8	8.0%	15.6×	38	+31.0%
44	China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina	42.2	4.9%	11.9×	47	+10.3%
45	TU Bergakademie FreibergGermany	41.4	19.2%	14.3×	9	+8.4%
46	North China University of Water Resources and Electric PowerChina	40.6	12.0%	12.1×	15	+480.1%
47	Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina	35.1	14.0%	2.8×	10	-10.3%
48	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	32.0	6.5%	1.4×	11	+91.5%
49	ETH ZurichSwitzerland	31.2	15.3%	1.6×	9	-56.4%
50	National University of SingaporeSingapore	29.4	19.2%	0.9×	10	-38.3%
51	King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia	29.2	6.3%	5.4×	13	-50.8%
52	Khalifa University of Science and TechnologyUnited Arab Emirates	27.9	14.2%	3.9×	8	-24.9%

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 Geophysical Methods and Applications, country by country

Is Geophysical Methods and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Geophysical Methods and Applications.

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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 Geophysical Methods and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.049% in 2024.

Fractional works of Geophysical Methods and Applications 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.

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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Which countries lead Geophysical Methods and Applications research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Geophysical Methods and Applications research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Geophysical Methods and Applications?

What are the most cited papers in Geophysical Methods and Applications?

Where is Geophysical Methods and Applications research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Geophysical Methods and Applications?

Is Geophysical Methods and Applications research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion