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Tailings Management and Properties

Tailings Management and Properties is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 6.3k research works in it since 1957. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the characteristics, failure, and remediation of mine tailings dams, with an emphasis on environmental impacts and sustainable management practices. It covers topics such as the design and application of cemented paste backfill, the effects of curing temperature on mechanical properties, and the environmental impacts of tailing dam failures. The cluster also explores the socio-economic and ecological impacts of dam breaches, as well as strategies for waste management and disaster risk disclosure in the mining industry.

  • Tailings Dams
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Cemented Paste Backfill
  • Sustainable Development
  • Disaster Risk Disclosure
  • Hydraulic Properties
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Waste Management
  • Rheological Properties
  • Heavy Metal Contamination
Research works
6.3k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
649
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Tailings Management and Properties

Which countries lead Tailings Management and Properties research?

By volume, China and Brazil publish the most (1.2k and 576 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 Brazil 576 works
  3. 3 Canada 126 works
  4. 4 United States 110 works
  5. 5 India 92 works
  6. 6 Australia 70 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 49 works
  8. 8 South Africa 45 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 36 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 35 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: 51.8%Brazil: 24.4%Canada: 5.4%United States: 4.6%6 others listed: 13.8%52%largest
China1,225 · 51.8%Brazil576 · 24.4%Canada126 · 5.4%United States110 · 4.6%6 others listed326 · 13.8%

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

Which institutions lead Tailings Management and Properties research?

By volume in 2022-now, China University of Mining and Technology publishes the most Tailings Management and Properties research, followed by University of Science and Technology Beijing and Central South University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 129 works
  2. 2 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 107 works
  3. 3 Central South UniversityChina 51 works
  4. 4 Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 34 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 31 works
  6. 6 Liaoning Technical UniversityChina 28 works
  7. 7 Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina 25 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 23 works
  9. 9 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 22 works
  10. 10 Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Tailings Management and Properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Tailings Management and Properties include Yong Sik Ok, Jing Li and Hong Li.

  1. 1 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 126k citations
  2. 2 Jing Li United States 120k citations
  3. 3 Hong Li China 112k citations
  4. 4 Daniel C.W. Tsang China 87k citations
  5. 5 Nanthi Sirangie Bolan Australia 83k 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 Tailings Management and Properties?

The most cited paper in Tailings Management and Properties is "Acid Mine Drainage (AMD): causes, treatment and case studies" (Ata Akçıl, Soner Koldas, 2005), with 1,716 citations. Next come "Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental impacts, and remediation" (918) and "The Structure of Ferrihydrite, a Nanocrystalline Material" (909).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Acid Mine Drainage (AMD): causes, treatment and case studies Ata Akçıl, Soner Koldas · Journal of Cleaner Production 30 Apr 2005 1,716
2 Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental impacts, and remediation David Kossoff, William E. Dubbin, Maria Alfredsson et al. · Applied Geochemistry Open access 9 Oct 2014 918
3 The Structure of Ferrihydrite, a Nanocrystalline Material F. Marc Michel, Lars Ehm, Sytle M. Antao et al. · Science 24 May 2007 909
4 A review of recent strategies for acid mine drainage prevention and mine tailings recycling Ilhwan Park, Carlito Baltazar Tabelin, Sanghee Jeon et al. · Chemosphere 28 Nov 2018 723
5 Designing mine tailings for better environmental, social and economic outcomes: a review of alternative approaches Mansour Edraki, Thomas Baumgartl, Emmanuel Manlapig et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production 9 May 2014 666
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Tailings Management and Properties research done?

The largest centres of Tailings Management and Properties research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xuzhou (China), São Paulo (Brazil) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Fuxin, Xuzhou and Huainan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 293 works
  2. 2 XuzhouChina 132 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 65 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 62 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 61 works
  6. 6 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 57 works
  7. 7 Belo HorizonteBrazil 57 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 50 works
  9. 9 KunmingChina 32 works
  10. 10 TaiyuanChina 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FuxinCN · 27.9 works59×
  2. XuzhouCN · 132.3 works53×
  3. HuainanCN · 30.3 works38×
  4. JiaozuoCN · 22.7 works26×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Tailings Management and Properties than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Tailings Management and Properties?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University and China University of Mining and 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 21.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Recep Tayyip Erdoğan…Xi'an University of …University of Scienc…China University of …
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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
1University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 68.020.9%57.2×107 +142.5%
2Recep Tayyip Erdoğan UniversityTürkiye 66.542.0%34.2×12 +297.5%
3China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 65.014.1%68.6×129 +94.1%
4Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.726.5%62.1×34 +182.6%
5Central South UniversityChina 57.414.8%11.1×51 +73.6%
6Northeastern UniversityChina 56.529.4%10.1×22 +6.1%
7University of OttawaCanada 55.710.9%12.5×20 +57.8%
8Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 46.919.7%16.4×22 +220.8%
9Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 45.328.4%12.7×9 +538.4%
10Liaoning Technical UniversityChina 43.612.1%67.4×28 +341.2%

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 Tailings Management and Properties, country by country

Is Tailings Management and Properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Tailings Management and Properties.

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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 Tailings Management and Properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0089% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Tailings Management and Properties 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%Tailings Management and Properties10.6% 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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