Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 43k research works in it since 1950. 22.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the automated inspection and maintenance of pavement and civil infrastructure using deep learning, image processing, and convolutional neural networks. The research covers topics such as crack detection, defect classification, road surface monitoring, bridge inspection, and infrastructure condition assessment.
- Deep Learning
- Pavement
- Crack Detection
- Image Processing
- Infrastructure Inspection
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Defect Detection
- Road Maintenance
- Bridge Inspection
- Civil Infrastructure
- Research works
- 43k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 9.8k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 22.7% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +109% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (5.7k and 1.5k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 5.7k works
- 2 United States 1.5k works
- 3 India 1.1k works
- 4 Italy 442 works
- 5 South Korea 379 works
- 6 United Kingdom 370 works
- 7 Brazil 369 works
- 8 Japan 336 works
- 9 Türkiye 301 works
- 10 Canada 295 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Tongji University publishes the most Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring research, followed by Chang'an University and Southeast University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Tongji UniversityChina 227 works
- 2 Chang'an UniversityChina 221 works
- 3 Southeast UniversityChina 219 works
- 4 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 114 works
- 5 Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina 111 works
- 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 99 works
- 7 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 89 works
- 8 Central South UniversityChina 87 works
- 9 Chongqing Jiaotong UniversityChina 86 works
- 10 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 76 works
Who are the leading researchers in Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring include Wei Huang.
- 1 Wei Huang China 5.5k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring research done?
The largest centres of Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Goyang-si, Elâzığ and Ancona.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Goyang-siKR · 28.5 works11×
- ElâzığTR · 26.8 works7.4×
- AnconaIT · 22.5 works7.1×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring?
Among universities, judged by research, Southeast University, Tongji University and Hong Kong Polytechnic 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southeast UniversityChina | 73.4 | 35.5% | 11.0× | 219 | +90.3% |
| 2 | Tongji UniversityChina | 70.7 | 30.6% | 12.0× | 227 | +89.9% |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 69.3 | 47.1% | 6.9× | 89 | +64.1% |
| 4 | Chang'an UniversityChina | 66.9 | 29.1% | 39.7× | 220 | +48.9% |
| 5 | Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina | 61.9 | 24.2% | 10.0× | 114 | +76.7% |
| 6 | Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina | 61.9 | 29.5% | 30.0× | 111 | +38.7% |
| 7 | Michigan Technological UniversityUnited States | 60.4 | 47.9% | 11.8× | 16 | +16.4% |
| 8 | RMIT UniversityAustralia | 60.0 | 48.3% | 3.8× | 20 | +252.1% |
| 9 | Guangzhou UniversityChina | 58.2 | 38.7% | 5.6× | 30 | +453.9% |
| 10 | Shandong Jianzhu UniversityChina | 57.2 | 29.5% | 9.6× | 18 | +163.2% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 109% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.