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Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
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Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

1435-9529

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10064

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 71 122 268 32
Engineering and Technology 205 107 240 31
Environmental Sciences 324 20 38 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 291
Documents by Best Scientists*: 489
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 95
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.161
Impact Factor: 4.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Geotechnical engineering, Nature Conservation, Landslide, Rock mass classification and Mining engineering. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment facilitates discussions on Geotechnical engineering that incorporate concepts from other fields like Shear (geology), Compressive strength and Soil water. Research in the field of Composite material was used to conduct the presented Compressive strength study.

The Soil water study featured falls within the wider field of Soil science. Studies in Nature Conservation and Mineralogy are the key highlights in it. The journal focuses on Landslide but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Hydrology and Debris.

It dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Rock mass classification and Joint (geology). The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Mining engineering, apply to Coal mining as well.

  • Geotechnical engineering (39.66%)
  • Nature Conservation (27.57%)
  • Landslide (15.63%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Landslide hazard assessment: summary review and new perspectives (962 citations)
  • Landslide hazard and risk zonation—why is it still so difficult? (778 citations)
  • Recommendations for the quantitative analysis of landslide risk (495 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment:

The main points discussed in the journal publications deal with Geotechnical engineering, Nature Conservation, Landslide, Compressive strength and Mineralogy. The studies on Geotechnical engineering discussed at the journal articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Soil water and Weathering. While Landslide is the focus of the most cited articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Cartography, Debris and Hydrology.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Composite material
  • Statistics
  • Geotechnical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment primarily focuses on research topics in Geotechnical engineering, Landslide, Composite material, Nature Conservation and Rock mass classification. The main emphasis of it is the subject of Geotechnical engineering, focusing on Excavation. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment explores the study of Landslide to improve our understanding of the broader topic of Geomorphology.

The Composite material research presented places emphasis on topics like Compressive strength, Porosity, Fracture (geology) and Elastic modulus. Research in Soil water discussed is concerned with the study of Soil science as a whole.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Numerical simulations of the failure process of anaclinal slope physical model and control mechanism of negative Poisson’s ratio cable (38 citations)
  • A new method of assessing the stability of anti-dip bedding rock slopes subjected to earthquake (19 citations)
  • Stability analysis of slopes using the vector sum numerical manifold method (18 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Işık Yilmaz (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Resat Ulusay (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Huiming Tang (18 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Jianping Chen (16 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Qiang Xu (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (204 papers) published 51 papers at the last edition, 19 more than at the previous edition,
  • China University of Mining and Technology (109 papers) published 33 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chengdu University of Technology (85 papers) published 21 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tongji University (63 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 8 more than at the previous edition,
  • China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (55 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 8.06% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 34.66% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.55% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.94% of all publications and 37.85% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Probabilistic stability analysis of earth dam slope under transient seepage using multivariate adaptive regression splines

    Lin Wang;Chongzhi Wu;Xin Gu;Hanlong Liu

    (2020)
    231 Citations
  • Experimental investigation on the nonlinear characteristics of energy evolution and failure characteristics of coal under different gas pressures

    Unknown

    (2021)
    186 Citations
  • Numerical simulations of the failure process of anaclinal slope physical model and control mechanism of negative Poisson’s ratio cable

    Chun Zhu;Manchao He;Murat Karakus;Xiaohu Zhang;Xiaohu Zhang

    (2021)
    101 Citations
  • Forecasting of TBM advance rate in hard rock condition based on artificial neural network and genetic programming techniques

    Jian Zhou;Jian Zhou;Behnam Yazdani Bejarbaneh;Danial Jahed Armaghani;M. M. Tahir

    (2020)
    94 Citations
  • Landslide susceptibility mapping using CNN-1D and 2D deep learning algorithms: comparison of their performance at Asir Region, KSA

    (2022)
    93 Citations
  • Effects of rapid cooling treatment on heated sandstone: a comparison between water and liquid nitrogen cooling

    Qiang Li;Tubing Yin;Xibing Li;Shuaishuai Zhang

    (2020)
    89 Citations

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