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Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1959. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment and enhancement of infrastructure resilience, particularly in the context of interdependent systems and disaster management. It explores quantitative analysis, network interdependencies, and vulnerability assessment of critical infrastructure, with a specific emphasis on seismic resilience and transportation networks.

  • Infrastructure Resilience
  • Interdependent Systems
  • Disaster Resilience
  • Critical Infrastructure
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Network Interdependencies
  • Seismic Resilience
  • Transportation Networks
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Risk Analysis
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1959
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+45%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Which countries lead Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 989 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 989 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 222 works
  4. 4 India 201 works
  5. 5 Italy 176 works
  6. 6 Germany 138 works
  7. 7 Iran 130 works
  8. 8 Canada 109 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 102 works
  10. 10 Japan 101 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: 39.2%United States: 27.8%United Kingdom: 6.2%India: 5.6%6 others listed: 21.2%39%largest
China1,394 · 39.2%United States989 · 27.8%United Kingdom222 · 6.2%India201 · 5.6%6 others listed755 · 21.2%

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

Which institutions lead Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis research, followed by Tsinghua University and United States Department of Defense.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 38 works
  2. 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 32 works
  3. 3 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 29 works
  4. 4 Southeast UniversityChina 28 works
  5. 5 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 27 works
  6. 6 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 23 works
  7. 7 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 23 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 22 works
  9. 9 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis include Kai You Wang, Frede Blaabjerg and Harry Eugene Stanley.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  3. 3 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  4. 4 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Paul Slovic United States 125k citations
  6. 6 Josep Maria Guerrero Denmark 123k 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 Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis?

The most cited paper in Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis is "A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities" (Michel Bruneau, Stephanie E. Chang, Ronald T. Eguchi et al., 2003), with 5,448 citations. Next come "Simulating dynamical features of escape panic" (4,954) and "A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters" (4,334).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities Michel Bruneau, Stephanie E. Chang, Ronald T. Eguchi et al. · Earthquake Spectra Nov 2003 5,448
2 Simulating dynamical features of escape panic Dirk Helbing, Illés J. Farkas, Tamás Vicsek · Nature Open access Sep 2000 4,954
3 A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters Susan L. Cutter, Lindsey R. Barnes, Melissa M. Berry et al. · Global Environmental Change Oct 2008 4,334
4 Defining urban resilience: A review Sara Meerow, Joshua Peter Newell, Melissa Stults · Landscape and Urban Planning 30 Dec 2015 3,258
5 Identifying, understanding, and analyzing critical infrastructure interdependencies Steven M. Rinaldi, James P. Peerenboom, Terrence Kelly · IEEE Control Systems Dec 2001 2,844
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Where is Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 298 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 124 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 100 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 88 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 73 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 64 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 54 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 52 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 44 works
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Where is the best place to study Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Dalian Maritime 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.

0%20%40%mean 23.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dalian Maritime Univ…Hong Kong Polytechni…Chang'an UniversityTongji 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
1Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 76.133.2%11.3×18 +624.1%
2Tongji UniversityChina 73.320.5%5.8×38 +175.1%
3Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 72.323.0%5.8×21 +118.7%
4Chang'an UniversityChina 65.921.1%12.2×20 +406.0%
5City University of Hong KongChina 64.927.3%4.4×11 +67.1%
6Southeast UniversityChina 61.716.3%4.4×28 +164.6%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 60.023.2%3.0×21 +197.6%
8ETH ZurichSwitzerland 58.323.0%4.7×14 +42.1%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 58.024.9%3.8×16 +45.5%
10Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 56.726.0%6.0×22 -19.8%

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 Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis, country by country

Is Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis.

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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 Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis 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%Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis10.0% 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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