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Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials

Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials is a research topic within Building and Construction. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advancements in 3D concrete printing technology, including topics such as additive manufacturing, rheology of printing materials, construction automation, geopolymer usage, fresh and hardened properties of printed concrete, and the mechanical performance of printed structures. The research explores the potential for digital fabrication in the construction industry and addresses challenges and opportunities for large-scale building projects.

  • 3D Printing
  • Concrete Extrusion
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Rheology
  • Construction Automation
  • Geopolymer
  • Fresh Properties
  • Layered Structures
  • Mechanical Performance
  • Digital Fabrication
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+60%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials

Which countries lead Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.5k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 India 1.4k works
  3. 3 United States 989 works
  4. 4 Russia 547 works
  5. 5 Germany 509 works
  6. 6 Brazil 363 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 361 works
  8. 8 Italy 318 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 310 works
  10. 10 France 309 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: 33.0%India: 18.0%United States: 13.1%Russia: 7.2%6 others listed: 28.7%33%largest
China2,498 · 33.0%India1,365 · 18.0%United States989 · 13.1%Russia547 · 7.2%6 others listed2,171 · 28.7%

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

Which institutions lead Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials research, followed by Tongji University and Southeast University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 104 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 96 works
  3. 3 Southeast UniversityChina 69 works
  4. 4 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 63 works
  5. 5 ETH ZurichSwitzerland 59 works
  6. 6 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 42 works
  7. 7 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 40 works
  8. 8 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 38 works
  9. 9 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 38 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials include Róbert Langer, Kenji Watanabe and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  5. 5 Patrick W.J.C. Serruys Netherlands 206k citations
  6. 6 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  7. 7 Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan United States 173k 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 Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials?

The most cited paper in Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials is "Additive manufacturing (3D printing): A review of materials, methods, applications and challenges" (Tuan Ngo, Alireza Hosseinzadeh Kashani, Gabriele Imbalzano et al., 2018), with 8,400 citations. Next come "The finite element method. Linear static and dynamic finite element analysis" (5,132) and "Composites reinforced with cellulose based fibres" (4,631).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Additive manufacturing (3D printing): A review of materials, methods, applications and challenges Tuan Ngo, Alireza Hosseinzadeh Kashani, Gabriele Imbalzano et al. · Composites Part B Engineering Open access 13 Feb 2018 8,400
2 The finite element method. Linear static and dynamic finite element analysis Thomas Zimmermann · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Nov 1987 5,132
3 Composites reinforced with cellulose based fibres Andrzej Korneliusz Bledzki · Progress in Polymer Science May 1999 4,631
4 Biocomposites reinforced with natural fibers: 2000–2010 Omar Faruk, Andrzej Korneliusz Bledzki, Hans‐Peter Fink et al. · Progress in Polymer Science 2 May 2012 4,216
5 Porous scaffold design for tissue engineering Scott J. Hollister · Nature Materials Jul 2005 3,967
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials research done?

The largest centres of Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Belgorod.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 306 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 190 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 184 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 165 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 147 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 133 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 123 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 93 works
  9. 9 BaghdadIraq 87 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 80 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BelgorodRU · 32.9 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Nanyang Technological University and Tongji University score highest, combining citation 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 26.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Southeast UniversityNanyang Technologica…Tongji 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.

Citation 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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 78.330.1%4.0×37 +172.8%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 75.525.1%3.5×30 +25.2%
3Tongji UniversityChina 74.921.9%5.8×96 +138.5%
4Southeast UniversityChina 74.927.3%4.3×69 +241.9%
5Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 74.933.5%8.2×25 +5.9%
6University of Hong KongChina 71.928.5%2.5×25 +115.5%
7City University of Hong KongChina 69.432.8%2.3×14 +286.4%
8ETH ZurichSwitzerland 68.213.6%7.9×59 +36.0%
9Ghent UniversityBelgium 65.220.7%3.3×28 +37.1%
10National University of Sciences and TechnologyPakistan 64.832.7%5.2×11 +217.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials, country by country

Is Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 60% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials.

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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 Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.061% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials0.055% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials 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%Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials10.0% 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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