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Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
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Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 139 114 193 38
Computer Science 374 30 38 16

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 191
Documents by Best Scientists*: 267
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index: 119
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.012
Impact Factor: 9.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering?

The topics of Artificial intelligence, Structural engineering, Algorithm, Operations research and Mathematical optimization are the focal point of discussions in the journal. It holds forums on Artificial intelligence that merges themes from other disciplines such as Machine learning, Computer vision and Pattern recognition. Structural engineering studies presented include Finite element method and Structural health monitoring.

Mathematical optimization research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Genetic algorithm. The Artificial neural network study featured in it draws parallels with the field of Data mining.

  • Artificial intelligence (18.10%)
  • Structural engineering (14.55%)
  • Algorithm (10.59%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Deep Learning-Based Crack Damage Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks (944 citations)
  • Neural Networks in Civil Engineering: 1989–2000 (470 citations)
  • Multicriteria Planning of Post‐Earthquake Sustainable Reconstruction (418 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering:

The most cited articles tackle a plethora of topics, such as Artificial intelligence, Structural engineering, Artificial neural network, Structural health monitoring and Algorithm. Issues in Artificial intelligence were discussed in the journal papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Computer vision and Pattern recognition. The journal publications deal with Algorithm in conjunction with Mathematical optimization and similar fields in Operations research and Optimal design.

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics
  • Operating system

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering aims to foster the development of research in Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Structural engineering, Pattern recognition and Algorithm. It focused on Artificial intelligence research but expanded to cover Machine learning. The work on Computer vision addressed in it expands to the thematically related Surface (mathematics).

Bridge (interpersonal) is a key component of Structural engineering research discussed in Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Pattern recognition and Damage detection.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Generative adversarial network for road damage detection (27 citations)
  • Uncertainty‐assisted deep vision structural health monitoring (18 citations)
  • Noncontact cable force estimation with unmanned aerial vehicle and computer vision (17 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 Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hojjat Adeli (57 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • S. Travis Waller (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Enrique Castillo (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ka-Veng Yuen (14 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Heng Li (14 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more 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 Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ohio State University (53 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Texas A&M University (44 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Purdue University (41 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (38 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tongji University (32 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 4 more 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 26.32% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 16.45% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.42% of all publications and 38.82% 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

  • Concrete bridge surface damage detection using a single-stage detector

    Chaobo Zhang;Chih‐chen Chang;Maziar Jamshidi

    (2020)
    304 Citations
  • Real‐time regional seismic damage assessment framework based on long short‐term memory neural network

    Yongjia Xu;Xinzheng Lu;Barbaros Cetiner;Ertugrul Taciroglu

    (2021)
    174 Citations
  • Hybrid deep learning architecture for rail surface segmentation and surface defect detection

    Yunpeng Wu;Yunpeng Wu;Yong Qin;Yu Qian;Feng Guo

    (2021)
    137 Citations
  • A unified convolutional neural network integrated with conditional random field for pipe defect segmentation

    Mingzhu Wang;Jack C. P. Cheng

    (2020)
    125 Citations
  • Crack detection using fusion features-based broad learning system and image processing

    Yang Zhang;Yang Zhang;Ka-Veng Yuen

    (2021)
    121 Citations
  • Regional resilience analysis: A multiscale approach to optimize the resilience of interdependent infrastructure

    Neetesh Sharma;Armin Tabandeh;Paolo Gardoni

    (2020)
    110 Citations
  • Optimization of electric bus scheduling considering stochastic volatilities in trip travel time and energy consumption

    Yiming Bie;Jinhua Ji;Xiangyu Wang;Xiangyu Wang;Xiaobo Qu

    (2021)
    110 Citations
  • Framework for city‐scale building seismic resilience simulation and repair scheduling with labor constraints driven by time–history analysis

    Chen Xiong;Jin Huang;Xinzheng Lu

    (2020)
    101 Citations
  • Vision-based automated bridge component recognition with high-level scene consistency

    Yasutaka Narazaki;Vedhus Hoskere;Tu A. Hoang;Yozo Fujino

    (2020)
    92 Citations

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