2026 Eng Choon Leong: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	57	2623	2506	37	37	312	12969
Earth Science	56	2390	2169	6	6	294	12860

Eng Choon Leong publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eng Choon Leong sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 603+

This scientist: 294 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Eng Choon Leong D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eng Choon Leong sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Eng Choon Leong is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and primarily conducts research in the field of Engineering, with a specific focus on Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their research covers several subfields including:

Civil and Structural Engineering
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Mechanics of Materials
Geophysics

Eng Choon Leong's work addresses a variety of topics within geotechnical engineering and related areas, notably:

Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
Soil and Unsaturated Flow
Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
Landslides and related hazards
Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
Numerical methods in engineering

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications over several years. Recent examples include:

Post Covid-19 water and waste water management to protect public health and geoenvironment (2020), Environmental Geotechnics
Assessment of critical rainfall scenarios for slope stability analyses based on historical rainfall records in Singapore (2022), Environmental Earth Sciences
Environmental geotechnics: challenges and opportunities in the post-Covid-19 world (2020), Environmental Geotechnics
A modified series-parallel electrical resistivity model of saturated sand/clay mixture (2021), Engineering Geology
Effect of mean grain size on shear modulus degradation and damping ratio curves of sands (2022), Géotechnique

Frequent publication venues where the scientist's work appears include:

International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
Environmental Geotechnics
Ocean Engineering
Geotechnical Testing Journal
E3S Web of Conferences

Collaborative research with various frequent coauthors is notable in their publication record. These coauthors include:

Hossam Abuel-Naga
Wenjie Ma
Changdan Wang
Binglong Wang
Shunhua Zhou

Best Publications

Review of soil-water characteristic curve equations

E. C. Leong;H. Rahardjo

779
Citations
PERMEABILITY FUNCTIONS FOR UNSATURATED SOILS

Eng Choon Leong;Harianto Rahardjo

501
Citations
Factors Controlling Instability of Homogeneous Soil Slopes under Rainfall

Harianto Rahardjo;Harianto Rahardjo;T. H. Ong;T. H. Ong;R. B. Rezaur;R. B. Rezaur;Eng Choon Leong;Eng Choon Leong

498
Citations
CONTROLLING PARAMETERS FOR RAINFALL-INDUCED LANDSLIDES

Illias Tsaparas;Harianto Rahardjo;David G. Toll;Eng Choon Leong

455
Citations
Infiltration effects on stability of a residual soil slope

J. M. Gasmo;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong

397
Citations
Response of a residual soil slope to rainfall

H Rahardjo;T T Lee;E C Leong;R B Rezaur

370
Citations
The effect of antecedent rainfall on slope stability

H. Rahardjo;X. W. Li;D. G. Toll;E. C. Leong

363
Citations
Factors affecting the filter paper method for total and matric suction measurements

Eng Choon Leong;Liangcai He;Harianto Rahardjo

353
Citations
Factors affecting drying and wetting soil-water characteristic curves of sandy soils

Hong Yang;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong;Delwyn G. Fredlund

304
Citations
Effect of Antecedent Rainfall Patterns on Rainfall-Induced Slope Failure

Arezoo Rahimi;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong

302
Citations
Total suction measurement of unsaturated soils with a device using the chilled-mirror dew-point technique

Eng Choon Leong;Sudhiranjan Tripathy;Harianto Rahardjo

292
Citations
Characteristics of residual soils in Singapore as formed by weathering

Harianto Rahardjo;K. K. Aung;Eng Choon Leong;R. B. Rezaur

288
Citations
Measuring Shear Wave Velocity Using Bender Elements

Eng Choon Leong;Sir Hoon Yeo;Harianto Rahardjo

276
Citations
One-dimensional analysis of soil plugs in pipe piles

M. F. Randolph;E. C. Leong;G. T. Houlsby

240
Citations
Effect of hydraulic properties of soil on rainfall-induced slope failure

Arezoo Rahimi;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong

215
Citations
Indirect Measurement of Suction

Rifat Bulut;Eng Choon Leong

215
Citations
Effects of Groundwater Table Position and Soil Properties on Stability of Slope during Rainfall

Harianto Rahardjo;Alfrendo Satyanaga Nio;Eng Choon Leong;Ng Yew Song

211
Citations
Variability of residual soil properties

Harianto Rahardjo;Alfrendo Satyanaga;Eng Choon Leong;Yew Song Ng

182
Citations
Mechanics of Residual Soils

G. E. Blight;E. C. Leong

182
Citations
Water characteristic curve of soil with bimodal grain-size distribution

Alfrendo Satyanaga;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong;Jing-Yuan Wang

179
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Harianto Rahardjo Nanyang Technological University

Delwyn G. Fredlund University of Saskatchewan

Mark Randolph University of Western Australia

Kay Soon Low National University of Singapore

Sukant K. Tripathy University of Massachusetts Lowell

Abdelmalek Bouazza Monash University

Ahmed Elgamal University of California, San Diego

Adrian Wing-Keung Law National University of Singapore

Guy T. Houlsby University of Oxford

Yiik Diew Wong Nanyang Technological University

External Links

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