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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. 5.8% 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%
665
per year above
Top-10% rate
5.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+75%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Mining Techniques and Economics research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (901 and 379 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Indonesia 901 works
  2. 2 China 379 works
  3. 3 United States 192 works
  4. 4 Russia 163 works
  5. 5 India 111 works
  6. 6 Australia 99 works
  7. 7 Canada 95 works
  8. 8 South Africa 89 works
  9. 9 Brazil 76 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: 41.7%China: 17.5%United States: 8.9%Russia: 7.5%6 others listed: 24.4%42%largest
Indonesia901 · 41.7%China379 · 17.5%United States192 · 8.9%Russia163 · 7.5%6 others listed527 · 24.4%

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

Which institutions lead Mining Techniques and Economics research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Bandung Institute of Technology publishes the most Mining Techniques and Economics research, followed by Bandung Islamic University and Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Yogyakarta.

Who are the leading researchers in Mining Techniques and Economics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mining Techniques and Economics include M. L. Williams.

  1. 1 M. L. Williams United States 2.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Mining Techniques and Economics research done?

The largest centres of Mining Techniques and Economics research in 2022–2025 are Bandung (Indonesia), Beijing (China), 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Bandung Indonesia 136 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 129 works
  3. 3 Jakarta Indonesia 93 works
  4. 4 Surabaya Indonesia 66 works
  5. 5 Sleman Indonesia 52 works
  6. 6 Makassar Indonesia 52 works
  7. 7 Moscow Russia 40 works
  8. 8 Changsha China 39 works
  9. 9 Johannesburg South Africa 37 works
  10. 10 Palembang Indonesia 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SlemanID · 52.4 works47×
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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, Curtin University, Saint Petersburg Mining University and AGH University of Krakow 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%10%20%mean 7.34%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Curtin University: 12, 19.9%Saint Petersburg Mining University: 13, 20.1%AGH University of Krakow: 11, 10.8%University of the Witwatersrand: 15, 9.7%Bandung Institute of Technology: 63, 0.8%McGill University: 17, 6.7%University of Mines and Technology: 8, 4.0%Sriwijaya University: 24, 1.0%Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology: 22, 0.4%Mulawarman University: 27, 0.0%Saint Petersburg Min…Curtin UniversityAGH University of Kr…University of the Wi…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Curtin UniversityAustralia 75.819.9%13.1×12 +69.3%
2 Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 67.420.1%80.1×13
3 AGH University of KrakowPoland 64.210.8%9.8×11 +254.5%
4 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 59.29.7%12.1×15 +64.1%
5 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 57.40.8%32.2×63 +101.8%
6 McGill UniversityCanada 55.06.7%8.0×17 +155.6%
7 University of Mines and TechnologyGhana 53.34.0%149.3×8 +788.3%
8 Sriwijaya UniversityIndonesia 52.61.0%14.3×24 +332.0%
9 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 52.30.4%17.6×22 +844.4%
10 Mulawarman UniversityIndonesia 52.10.0%22.1×27 +1752.8%

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 Mining Techniques and Economics research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 75% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.