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Seismic Performance and Analysis

Seismic Performance and Analysis is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1952. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advancements in seismic engineering, ground motion analysis, and probabilistic methods for assessing earthquake hazards. It includes topics such as structural dynamics, performance-based design, fragility functions, seismic retrofit, and empirical models for predicting ground motion parameters. The research contributes to improving the understanding of seismic behavior and enhancing the resilience of structures to earthquakes.

  • Seismic Engineering
  • Ground Motion
  • Probabilistic Analysis
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Earthquake Hazard
  • Performance-Based Design
  • Fragility Functions
  • Dynamic Analysis
  • Seismic Retrofit
  • Empirical Models
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Seismic Performance and Analysis

Which countries lead Seismic Performance and Analysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.1k and 927 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 India 927 works
  3. 3 Italy 770 works
  4. 4 United States 629 works
  5. 5 Iran 453 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 447 works
  7. 7 Japan 376 works
  8. 8 Canada 246 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 198 works
  10. 10 South Korea 186 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: 42.2%India: 12.7%Italy: 10.5%United States: 8.6%6 others listed: 26.0%42%largest
China3,089 · 42.2%India927 · 12.7%Italy770 · 10.5%United States629 · 8.6%6 others listed1,907 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Seismic Performance and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Seismic Performance and Analysis research, followed by China Earthquake Administration and Beijing University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 234 works
  2. 2 China Earthquake AdministrationChina 143 works
  3. 3 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 111 works
  4. 4 University of Naples Federico IIItaly 99 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 93 works
  6. 6 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 80 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 80 works
  8. 8 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 75 works
  9. 9 Chongqing UniversityChina 70 works
  10. 10 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 62 works

Who are the leading researchers in Seismic Performance and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Seismic Performance and Analysis include Kai You Wang, Lei Jiang and Yuming Guo.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  3. 3 Yuming Guo Australia 175k citations
  4. 4 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  5. 5 Akira Fujishima Japan 125k citations
  6. 6 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  7. 7 Guanrong Chen China 116k citations
  8. 8 Kang Xu United States 112k 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 Seismic Performance and Analysis?

The most cited paper in Seismic Performance and Analysis is "Incremental dynamic analysis" (Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, C. Allin Cornell, 2001), with 4,239 citations. Next come "Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering" (3,809) and "Structural Control: Past, Present, and Future" (2,323).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Incremental dynamic analysis Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, C. Allin Cornell · Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics 19 Dec 2001 4,239
2 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Allen W. Hatheway · Environmental and Engineering Geoscience Mar 1997 3,809
3 Structural Control: Past, Present, and Future George W. Housner, Lawrence A. Bergman, T. K. Caughey et al. · Journal of Engineering Mechanics Sep 1997 2,323
4 Probabilistic Basis for 2000 SAC Federal Emergency Management Agency Steel Moment Frame Guidelines C. Allin Cornell, Fatemeh Jalayer, Ronald O. Hamburger et al. · Journal of Structural Engineering Apr 2002 2,279
5 Mechanistic Seismic Damage Model for Reinforced Concrete Young‐Ji Park, Alfredo H.‐S. Ang · Journal of Structural Engineering Apr 1985 2,191
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Seismic Performance and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Seismic Performance and Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tehran (Iran) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kelowna, Pavia and Christchurch.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 598 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 345 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 207 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 184 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 154 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 129 works
  7. 7 RomeItaly 128 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 122 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 122 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 120 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KelownaCA · 20.9 works23×
  2. PaviaIT · 72.3 works20×
  3. ChristchurchNZ · 32.2 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Seismic Performance and Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Seismic Performance and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tongji University and Gdańsk University of Technology 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 24.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Gdańsk University of…Hong 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 73.428.0%6.8×47 +121.9%
2Tongji UniversityChina 69.316.2%19.0×234 +27.3%
3Gdańsk University of TechnologyPoland 67.442.2%9.0×11 +28.2%
4Southeast UniversityChina 67.322.6%7.8×93 +25.3%
5Central South UniversityChina 64.929.4%3.2×50 +114.8%
6Beijing University of TechnologyChina 62.817.6%19.6×111 +101.6%
7Heilongjiang UniversityChina 62.436.5%9.3×13 +997.8%
8University of British ColumbiaCanada 60.520.3%5.0×48 +34.3%
9Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di PaviaItaly 59.816.1%168.2×35 +17.8%
10Guangzhou UniversityChina 58.817.0%20.5×60 +116.8%

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 Seismic Performance and Analysis, country by country

Is Seismic Performance and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Seismic Performance and Analysis.

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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 Seismic Performance and Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Seismic Performance and Analysis0.035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Seismic Performance and Analysis 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%Seismic Performance and Analysis9.9% 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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