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Mining Techniques and Economics

Mining Techniques and Economics is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of operations research, optimization algorithms, and stochastic modeling to address various challenges in mine planning, particularly in the context of open pit mining. The topics covered include production scheduling, truck dispatching, equipment selection, and strategic planning, with a strong emphasis on addressing uncertainty and geological variability.

  • Open Pit Mining
  • Production Scheduling
  • Optimization
  • Uncertainty
  • Algorithm
  • Truck Dispatching
  • Geological Uncertainty
  • Stochastic Optimization
  • Equipment Selection
  • Strategic Planning
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mining Techniques and Economics

Which countries lead Mining Techniques and Economics research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (931 and 462 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 931 works
  2. 2 China 462 works
  3. 3 United States 211 works
  4. 4 Russia 170 works
  5. 5 India 128 works
  6. 6 Australia 111 works
  7. 7 Canada 107 works
  8. 8 South Africa 94 works
  9. 9 Brazil 82 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 57 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.

Indonesia: 39.6%China: 19.6%United States: 9.0%Russia: 7.2%6 others listed: 24.6%40%largest
Indonesia931 · 39.6%China462 · 19.6%United States211 · 9.0%Russia170 · 7.2%6 others listed579 · 24.6%

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

Which institutions lead Mining Techniques and Economics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Bandung Institute of Technology publishes the most Mining Techniques and Economics research, followed by Bandung Islamic University and Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Yogyakarta.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 66 works
  2. 2 Bandung Islamic UniversityIndonesia 45 works
  3. 3 Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran YogyakartaIndonesia 41 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 40 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of EngineeringChina 36 works
  6. 6 Central South UniversityChina 34 works
  7. 7 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 32 works
  8. 8 Mulawarman UniversityIndonesia 29 works
  9. 9 Sriwijaya UniversityIndonesia 26 works
  10. 10 Lambung Mangkurat UniversityIndonesia 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mining Techniques and Economics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mining Techniques and Economics include Seeram Ramakrishna.

  1. 1 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k 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 Mining Techniques and Economics?

The most cited paper in Mining Techniques and Economics is "Developing a framework for sustainable development indicators for the mining and minerals industry" (Adisa Azapagic, 2003), with 1,080 citations. Next come "Sustaining development in mineral economies: The resource curse thesis" (749) and "Big data analytics as an operational excellence approach to enhance sustainable supply chain performance" (698).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Developing a framework for sustainable development indicators for the mining and minerals industry Adisa Azapagic · Journal of Cleaner Production 22 Jul 2003 1,080
2 Sustaining development in mineral economies: The resource curse thesis Coby van der Linde · Resources Policy Mar 1994 749
3 Big data analytics as an operational excellence approach to enhance sustainable supply chain performance Surajit Bag, Lincoln Christopher Wood, Lei Xu et al. · Resources Conservation and Recycling 12 Nov 2019 698
4 Energy and greenhouse gas impacts of mining and mineral processing operations Terry E. Norgate, Nawshad Haque · Journal of Cleaner Production 3 Oct 2009 680
5 The changing basis of performance measurement Alaa M. Ghalayini, James S. Noble · International Journal of Operations & Production Management Aug 1996 679
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Mining Techniques and Economics research done?

The largest centres of Mining Techniques and Economics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Bandung (Indonesia), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Surabaya (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sleman.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 147 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 142 works
  3. 3 JakartaIndonesia 95 works
  4. 4 SurabayaIndonesia 69 works
  5. 5 SlemanIndonesia 54 works
  6. 6 MakassarIndonesia 53 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 43 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 42 works
  9. 9 JohannesburgSouth Africa 39 works
  10. 10 PalembangIndonesia 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SlemanID · 54.4 works47×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Mining Techniques and Economics?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, McGill University and Curtin 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%60%mean 29.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →McGill UniversityCentral South Univer…Curtin UniversityThe University of Qu…
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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
1Central South UniversityChina 69.034.7%6.2×34 +384.5%
2McGill UniversityCanada 67.136.7%7.0×20 -15.6%
3Curtin UniversityAustralia 65.432.1%15.5×14 +5.1%
4The University of QueenslandAustralia 60.225.0%6.0×16 +31.2%
5Northeastern UniversityChina 58.338.5%6.0×15 +152.3%
6China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 58.219.7%14.3×32 +42.9%
7University of AlbertaCanada 57.948.4%4.8×12 -15.3%
8Luleå University of TechnologySweden 55.419.8%30.5×10 +83.3%
9Amirkabir University of TechnologyIran 55.438.8%13.3×9 -34.3%
10Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 53.51.5%35.4×66 +227.3%

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 Mining Techniques and Economics, country by country

Is Mining Techniques and Economics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Mining Techniques and Economics.

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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 Mining Techniques and Economics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mining Techniques and Economics 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%Mining Techniques and Economics10.2% 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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