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Geoscience and Mining Technology

Geoscience and Mining Technology is a research topic within Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 9.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advancements in mining technology, safety measures, and risk assessment related to coal mining. It includes topics such as water inrush, coal seam stability, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, directional drilling, geological conditions, gas outburst, and numerical simulation.

  • Mining Technology
  • Water Inrush
  • Coal Seam
  • Safety Evaluation
  • Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation
  • Directional Drilling
  • Geological Conditions
  • Risk Assessment
  • Gas Outburst
  • Numerical Simulation
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+46%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
92% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Geoscience and Mining Technology

Which countries lead Geoscience and Mining Technology research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.3k and 45 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.3k works
  2. 2 United States 45 works
  3. 3 ?? 32 works
  4. 4 India 32 works
  5. 5 Australia 19 works
  6. 6 Russia 18 works
  7. 7 Japan 18 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 16 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 15 works
  10. 10 Canada 13 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: 91.8%United States: 1.8%??: 1.3%India: 1.2%6 others listed: 3.9%92%largest
China2,325 · 91.8%United States45 · 1.8%??32 · 1.3%India32 · 1.2%6 others listed99 · 3.9%

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

Which institutions lead Geoscience and Mining Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, China University of Mining and Technology publishes the most Geoscience and Mining Technology research, followed by Henan Polytechnic University and Shandong University of Science and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 263 works
  2. 2 Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 86 works
  3. 3 Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 82 works
  4. 4 Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 73 works
  5. 5 Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina 66 works
  6. 6 Liaoning Technical UniversityChina 57 works
  7. 7 China Coal Technology and Engineering Group Corp (China)China 52 works
  8. 8 China National Petroleum Corporation (China)China 37 works
  9. 9 Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 34 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geoscience and Mining Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geoscience and Mining Technology include Xiaogang Wang, Qiang Zhang and Han Zhang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  3. 3 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  4. 4 Hao Chen China 118k 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 Geoscience and Mining Technology?

The most cited paper in Geoscience and Mining Technology is "Empirical Strength Criterion for Rock Masses" (Evert Hoek, Edwin T. Brown, 1980), with 1,717 citations. Next come "Coal oxidation at low temperatures: oxygen consumption, oxidation products, reaction mechanism and kinetic modelling" (688) and "Granular Computing: Perspectives and Challenges" (570).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Empirical Strength Criterion for Rock Masses Evert Hoek, Edwin T. Brown · Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division Sep 1980 1,717
2 Coal oxidation at low temperatures: oxygen consumption, oxidation products, reaction mechanism and kinetic modelling Haihui Wang, Bogdan Z. Dlugogorski, Eric M. Kennedy · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 2003 688
3 Granular Computing: Perspectives and Challenges Jing Yao, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Witold Pedrycz · IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 13 Mar 2013 570
4 STUDY ON ROCK MECHANICS IN DEEP MINING ENGINEERING Yaodong Jiang · Chinese journal of rock mechanics and engineering 2005 554
5 A review of research on spontaneous combustion of coal Moshood Onifade, Bekir Genc · International Journal of Mining Science and Technology Open access 18 Mar 2020 491
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Geoscience and Mining Technology research done?

The largest centres of Geoscience and Mining Technology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xuzhou (China), Xi'an (China) and Qingdao (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Fuxin, Xuzhou and Jiaozuo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 497 works
  2. 2 XuzhouChina 266 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 143 works
  4. 4 QingdaoChina 100 works
  5. 5 JiaozuoChina 88 works
  6. 6 HuainanChina 78 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 62 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 57 works
  9. 9 TaiyuanChina 57 works
  10. 10 FuxinChina 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FuxinCN · 57.0 works130×
  2. XuzhouCN · 266.4 works114×
  3. JiaozuoCN · 87.9 works109×
  4. HuainanCN · 78.4 works106×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Geoscience and Mining Technology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Geoscience and Mining Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Mining and Technology, Chongqing University and Central South 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%10%20%mean 16.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Central South Univer…Chongqing UniversityXi'an University of …China University of …
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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
1China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 86.115.4%150.5×263 +13.1%
2Chongqing UniversityChina 75.419.3%10.4×25 +16.8%
3Central South UniversityChina 71.721.9%7.4×32 +59.4%
4Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 68.717.1%144.4×73 +50.5%
5Northeastern UniversityChina 66.720.0%8.7×17 +45.5%
6Guizhou Minzu UniversityChina 65.623.8%83.4×12 +194.5%
7University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 61.713.5%18.1×31 +19.0%
8Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 61.511.9%75.6×82 +1.7%
9Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 58.88.9%135.7×86 +93.9%
10Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 58.313.6%36.8×34 +130.4%

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 Geoscience and Mining Technology, country by country

Is Geoscience and Mining Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Geoscience and Mining Technology.

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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 Geoscience and Mining Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Geoscience and Mining Technology0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geoscience and Mining Technology 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%Geoscience and Mining Technology9.9% 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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