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Innovative concrete reinforcement materials

Innovative concrete reinforcement materials is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 48k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of fiber reinforced concrete in civil engineering, particularly exploring mechanical properties, ultra-high performance concrete, recycled materials, artificial neural networks for prediction, durability, polymer-modified mortars, waste tire rubber as aggregate, and the use of steel fibers in concrete. It also covers topics such as self-compacting concrete and the utilization of various recycled and waste materials in concrete production.

  • Fiber Reinforced Concrete
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Ultra-High Performance Concrete
  • Recycled Materials
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Durability
  • Polymer-modified Mortars
  • Waste Tire Rubber
  • Steel Fibers
  • Self-Compacting Concrete
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+51%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Innovative concrete reinforcement materials

Which countries lead Innovative concrete reinforcement materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (6.4k and 2.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 6.4k works
  2. 2 India 2.5k works
  3. 3 United States 820 works
  4. 4 Iraq 718 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 597 works
  6. 6 Brazil 489 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 483 works
  8. 8 Iran 437 works
  9. 9 Egypt 418 works
  10. 10 Australia 392 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: 48.4%India: 18.7%United States: 6.2%Iraq: 5.4%6 others listed: 21.3%48%largest
China6,410 · 48.4%India2,473 · 18.7%United States820 · 6.2%Iraq718 · 5.4%6 others listed2,817 · 21.3%

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

Which institutions lead Innovative concrete reinforcement materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Innovative concrete reinforcement materials research, followed by Southeast University and Chang'an University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 233 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 220 works
  3. 3 Chang'an UniversityChina 126 works
  4. 4 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 108 works
  5. 5 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 107 works
  6. 6 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 107 works
  7. 7 Hohai UniversityChina 103 works
  8. 8 Zhengzhou UniversityChina 101 works
  9. 9 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 101 works
  10. 10 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 91 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovative concrete reinforcement materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovative concrete reinforcement materials include Wei Huang, Xiaogang Wang and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  5. 5 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  6. 6 Abdullah Mohamed Asiri Saudi Arabia 140k 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 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials?

The most cited paper in Innovative concrete reinforcement materials is "Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art" (Peter Duxson, A. Fernández‐Jiménez, John L. Provis et al., 2006), with 4,678 citations. Next come "A plastic-damage model for concrete" (4,387) and "Crack band theory for fracture of concrete" (3,561).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art Peter Duxson, A. Fernández‐Jiménez, John L. Provis et al. · Journal of Materials Science 18 Dec 2006 4,678
2 A plastic-damage model for concrete J. Lubliner, J. Oliver, Sergio Oller et al. · International Journal of Solids and Structures Open access 1989 4,387
3 Crack band theory for fracture of concrete Zdeněk P. Bažant, Byung Hwan Oh · Materials and Structures May 1983 3,561
4 Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) emissions: A comparison between geopolymer and OPC cement concrete Louise K. Turner, Frank Collins · Construction and Building Materials Open access 15 Mar 2013 2,407
5 Composition of reactive powder concretes Pierre Richard, Marcel Cheyrezy · Cement and Concrete Research Oct 1995 2,338
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Where is Innovative concrete reinforcement materials research done?

The largest centres of Innovative concrete reinforcement materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Krakow and Sulaymaniyah.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 652 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 504 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 374 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 366 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 349 works
  6. 6 ZhengzhouChina 273 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 263 works
  8. 8 BaghdadIraq 256 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 255 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 240 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KrakowPL · 21.8 works16×
  2. SulaymaniyahIQ · 63.9 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovative concrete reinforcement materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Innovative concrete reinforcement materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Southeast University and Suez 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 26.98%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Suez UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…Southeast 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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 78.129.3%6.0×85 +96.8%
2Southeast UniversityChina 69.718.9%9.0×220 +95.7%
3Suez UniversityEgypt 67.740.6%14.2×14 +203.7%
4Tongji UniversityChina 67.116.1%9.2×233 +110.0%
5Hunan UniversityChina 63.821.2%7.2×84 +61.2%
6Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 63.626.2%6.1×26 +59.0%
7Najran UniversitySaudi Arabia 61.632.0%9.9×16 +795.0%
8City University of Hong KongChina 61.532.1%2.2×21 +94.7%
9COMSATS University IslamabadPakistan 61.528.9%4.9×19 +78.8%
10Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 60.924.5%6.4×58 +86.6%

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 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials, country by country

Is Innovative concrete reinforcement materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Innovative concrete reinforcement 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 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.083% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Innovative concrete reinforcement materials0.080% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Innovative concrete reinforcement 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%Innovative concrete reinforcement materials9.8% 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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