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Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance

Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance is a research topic within Building and Construction. Science Explorer counts 19k 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 influence of recycled aggregate concrete on construction, covering topics such as mechanical behavior, durability performance, sustainability, waste reduction, and environmental impact assessment. It explores the properties, production processes, and management of construction waste to promote sustainable practices in the construction industry.

  • Recycled Aggregate
  • Concrete Properties
  • Construction Waste Management
  • Durability Performance
  • Mechanical Behavior
  • Sustainability in Construction
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Waste Reduction
  • Microstructural Analysis
  • High Performance Concrete
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+51%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance

Which countries lead Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.8k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 India 1.1k works
  3. 3 Brazil 586 works
  4. 4 United States 282 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 246 works
  6. 6 Iraq 222 works
  7. 7 Australia 211 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 178 works
  9. 9 Spain 160 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 147 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: 36.4%India: 22.4%Brazil: 11.9%United States: 5.7%6 others listed: 23.6%36%largest
China1,796 · 36.4%India1,104 · 22.4%Brazil586 · 11.9%United States282 · 5.7%6 others listed1,163 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance research, followed by Southeast University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 61 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 38 works
  3. 3 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 35 works
  4. 4 Shenzhen UniversityChina 32 works
  5. 5 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 29 works
  6. 6 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology JalandharIndia 28 works
  7. 7 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 27 works
  8. 8 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 25 works
  9. 9 RMIT UniversityAustralia 24 works
  10. 10 North China University of Water Resources and Electric PowerChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance include Lídia Morawska and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance?

The most cited paper in Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance is "Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) emissions: A comparison between geopolymer and OPC cement concrete" (Louise K. Turner, Frank Collins, 2013), with 2,407 citations. Next come "Alkali-activated materials" (2,198) and "Costs and carbon emissions for geopolymer pastes in comparison to ordinary portland cement" (1,945).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Alkali-activated materials John L. Provis · Cement and Concrete Research 2 Mar 2017 2,198
3 Costs and carbon emissions for geopolymer pastes in comparison to ordinary portland cement Benjamin Craig McLellan, Ross P. Williams, Janine Lay et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production Open access 23 Feb 2011 1,945
4 Self-Compacting Concrete Hajime Okamura, Masahiro Ouchi · Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology Open access 2003 1,841
5 Influence of amount of recycled coarse aggregates and production process on properties of recycled aggregate concrete Miren Etxeberria, E. Vázquez, Antonio R. Mari et al. · Cement and Concrete Research 22 Feb 2007 1,769
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Where is Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance research done?

The largest centres of Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jalandhar and Sulaymaniyah.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 199 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 106 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 101 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 98 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 81 works
  6. 6 ZhengzhouChina 80 works
  7. 7 BaghdadIraq 76 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 76 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 75 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JalandharIN · 28.3 works13×
  2. SulaymaniyahIQ · 21.1 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tongji University and Southeast 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 27.81%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang 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 87.432.0%6.0×35 +19.5%
2Tongji UniversityChina 74.123.5%5.9×61 +62.9%
3Southeast UniversityChina 72.830.5%3.8×38 +164.8%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 67.636.5%1.3×24 +118.6%
5Yangzhou UniversityChina 67.530.5%4.9×18 +208.2%
6City University of Hong KongChina 65.632.0%3.0×12 +49.0%
7RMIT UniversityAustralia 65.218.2%9.4×24 +13.6%
8COMSATS University IslamabadPakistan 63.927.9%5.6×9 +110.8%
9University of Hong KongChina 63.429.5%2.4×15 +3.6%
10Shenzhen UniversityChina 62.817.5%6.5×32 +19.2%

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 Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance, country by country

Is Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance.

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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 Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance 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%Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance10.3% 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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