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Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis

Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the simulation, analysis, and optimization of road safety barriers, including guardrail systems and concrete barriers. It covers topics such as crash tests, finite element simulation, safety performance evaluation, vehicle impact analysis, and the use of wireless sensor networks for traffic safety monitoring.

  • Crash Tests
  • Finite Element Simulation
  • Guardrail Systems
  • Vehicle Impact
  • Safety Performance
  • Barrier Design
  • Dynamic Loading
  • Roadside Hardware
  • Collision Analysis
  • Wireless Sensor Network
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis

Which countries lead Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (635 and 281 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 635 works
  2. 2 United States 281 works
  3. 3 India 160 works
  4. 4 Poland 71 works
  5. 5 Japan 57 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 50 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 44 works
  8. 8 Italy 44 works
  9. 9 South Korea 44 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 40 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: 44.6%United States: 19.7%India: 11.2%Poland: 5.0%6 others listed: 19.6%45%largest
China635 · 44.6%United States281 · 19.7%India160 · 11.2%Poland71 · 5.0%6 others listed279 · 19.6%

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

Which institutions lead Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research, followed by Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Central South University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 22 works
  2. 2 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 19 works
  3. 3 Central South UniversityChina 19 works
  4. 4 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 14 works
  5. 5 China Automotive Technology and Research CenterChina 14 works
  6. 6 University of Nebraska–LincolnUnited States 13 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 11 works
  8. 8 Southeast UniversityChina 11 works
  9. 9 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 10 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis include Ted R. Miller, David C. Schwebel and Paul M. Thompson.

  1. 1 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  2. 2 David C. Schwebel United States 210k citations
  3. 3 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k 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 Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis?

The most cited paper in Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis is "Compressive behaviour of concrete at high strain rates" (Peter H. Bischoff, S. H. Perry, 1991), with 1,410 citations. Next come "Blast Loading and Blast Effects on Structures – An Overview" (617) and "Analysis of driver injury severity levels at multiple locations using ordered probit models" (570).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Compressive behaviour of concrete at high strain rates Peter H. Bischoff, S. H. Perry · Materials and Structures Nov 1991 1,410
2 Blast Loading and Blast Effects on Structures – An Overview Tuan Ngo, Priyan A. Mendis, Anil Kumar Gupta et al. · Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering Open access 2007 617
3 Analysis of driver injury severity levels at multiple locations using ordered probit models Mohamed A. Abdel-Aty · Journal of Safety Research Open access 2003 570
4 Numerical derivation of pressure–impulse diagrams for prediction of RC column damage to blast loads Yanchao Shi, Hong Shun Hao, Zhongxian Li · International Journal of Impact Engineering Open access 26 Oct 2007 517
5 Durability Gap Analysis for Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites in Civil Infrastructure Vistasp M. Karbhari, Jik Chin, Donald L. Hunston et al. · Journal of Composites for Construction 22 Jul 2003 486
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Where is Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Changsha, Chongqing and Tianjin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 105 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 54 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 50 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 41 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 33 works
  6. 6 TianjinChina 31 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 30 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 21 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 21 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChangshaCN · 40.7 works4.4×
  2. ChongqingCN · 30.1 works3.8×
  3. TianjinCN · 31.2 works3.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, Southwest Jiaotong University and Tongji 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 18.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hunan UniversitySouthwest Jiaotong U…Central South Univer…Tongji 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
1Central South UniversityChina 79.820.3%5.8×18 +52.4%
2Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 69.324.1%11.2×14 +99.2%
3Tongji UniversityChina 64.813.7%8.8×22 +48.8%
4Hunan UniversityChina 62.925.6%7.9×9 -2.1%
5Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 60.130.5%4.8×9 +186.7%
6Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 53.410.8%13.7×19 +286.5%
7Southeast UniversityChina 47.417.0%4.5×11 +136.2%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 44.118.4%4.2×11 +77.7%
9University of Nebraska–LincolnUnited States 43.28.4%28.2×13 +63.9%
10Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 40.716.6%5.2×10 +56.9%

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 Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis, country by country

Is Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Transportation Safety and Impact 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 Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0097% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis0.0086% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Transportation Safety and Impact 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.

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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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