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Urban Stormwater Management Solutions

Urban Stormwater Management Solutions is a research topic within Environmental Engineering. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1953. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on urban stormwater management, sustainable drainage systems, and the impact of urbanization on hydrology and water quality. It covers topics such as low impact development practices, bioretention technology, the effects of impervious surfaces, rainwater harvesting, pollutant removal, and the influence of climate change on urban drainage systems.

  • Urban Stormwater Management
  • Sustainable Drainage Systems
  • Low Impact Development Practices
  • Bioretention Technology
  • Urban Hydrology
  • Water Quality
  • Impervious Surfaces
  • Rainwater Harvesting
  • Pollutant Removal
  • Climate Change Impact
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Urban Stormwater Management Solutions

Which countries lead Urban Stormwater Management Solutions research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1k and 676 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 United States 676 works
  3. 3 India 335 works
  4. 4 Brazil 278 works
  5. 5 Canada 140 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 139 works
  7. 7 Australia 122 works
  8. 8 Italy 122 works
  9. 9 Poland 98 works
  10. 10 Germany 96 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: 33.7%United States: 22.3%India: 11.1%Brazil: 9.2%6 others listed: 23.7%34%largest
China1,021 · 33.7%United States676 · 22.3%India335 · 11.1%Brazil278 · 9.2%6 others listed716 · 23.7%

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

Which institutions lead Urban Stormwater Management Solutions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Urban Stormwater Management Solutions research, followed by Hohai University and Tongji University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 41 works
  2. 2 Hohai UniversityChina 30 works
  3. 3 Tongji UniversityChina 27 works
  4. 4 Luleå University of TechnologySweden 24 works
  5. 5 Beijing University of Civil Engineering and ArchitectureChina 24 works
  6. 6 Xi'an University of TechnologyChina 21 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 20 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 20 works
  9. 9 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 20 works
  10. 10 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urban Stormwater Management Solutions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urban Stormwater Management Solutions include Richard M. Ryan, Lídia Morawska and Guangming Zeng.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  3. 3 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  4. 4 Michelle Lee Bell United States 197k 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 Urban Stormwater Management Solutions?

The most cited paper in Urban Stormwater Management Solutions is "The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure" (Christopher John Walsh, Allison H. Roy, Jack W. Feminella et al., 2005), with 2,904 citations. Next come "Streams in the Urban Landscape" (2,814) and "SUDS, LID, BMPs, WSUD and more – The evolution and application of terminology surrounding urban drainage" (1,918).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure Christopher John Walsh, Allison H. Roy, Jack W. Feminella et al. · Journal of the North American Benthological Society Sep 2005 2,904
2 Streams in the Urban Landscape Michael J. Paul, Judy L. Meyer · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics Nov 2001 2,814
3 SUDS, LID, BMPs, WSUD and more – The evolution and application of terminology surrounding urban drainage Tim D. Fletcher, William D. Shuster, William F. Hunt et al. · Urban Water Journal Open access 23 Jul 2014 1,918
4 Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions Chunyang He, Zhifeng Liu, Jianguo Wu et al. · Nature Communications Open access 3 Aug 2021 1,864
5 Optimization of Water Distribution Network Design Using the Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm Muzaffar M. Eusuff, Kevin Lansey · Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 21 Apr 2003 1,397
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Urban Stormwater Management Solutions research done?

The largest centres of Urban Stormwater Management Solutions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Luleå.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 234 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 87 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 63 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 52 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 50 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 35 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 34 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 33 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LuleåSE · 24.4 works43×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Urban Stormwater Management Solutions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Urban Stormwater Management Solutions?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Jaffna, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Beijing Normal 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 20.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…University of JaffnaBeijing Normal Unive…Luleå 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 JaffnaSri Lanka 76.031.3%100.9×14 +962.5%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 73.137.5%3.5×12 +15.8%
3Beijing Normal UniversityChina 64.723.9%6.0×19 +0.8%
4Luleå University of TechnologySweden 63.66.6%51.0×24 +54.4%
5Tongji UniversityChina 60.219.6%4.4×27 -6.2%
6Hohai UniversityChina 57.215.6%12.8×30 -15.7%
7Beijing University of Civil Engineering and ArchitectureChina 55.810.3%44.2×24 +65.7%
8Tianjin UniversityChina 55.723.8%2.9×14 +63.5%
9Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 52.29.4%16.6×20 +156.8%
10South China University of TechnologyChina 52.223.7%2.1×9 +34.7%

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 Urban Stormwater Management Solutions, country by country

Is Urban Stormwater Management Solutions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Urban Stormwater Management Solutions.

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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 Urban Stormwater Management Solutions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Urban Stormwater Management Solutions 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%Urban Stormwater Management Solutions10.2% 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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