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![Christo Venter](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/5c/105751.jpg)
Pulsars
gamma-ray astronomy
globular clusters
cosmic rays
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,050
14,594
0.364
![Ismail B Celik](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/d1/940838.jpg)
Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Fuel Cells
Combustion
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,964
5,640
0.471
![Fabio Tosti](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/be/1049358.jpg)
GPR
remote sensing
civil engineering
pavement engineering
non-destructive testing methods
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,809
2,220
0.790
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Wenzhong Zhu](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/8d/1160278.jpg)
Construction Materials
Nanotechnology
Micro-mechanical characterisation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,162
1,812
0.435
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Kourosh Behzadian](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/4c/1049346.jpg)
Hydro-environment
Decision Support
Optimisation
Multi-criteria decision
AI & data mining
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,133
1,622
0.760
![Dimitrios E. Alexakis](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/49/1840844.jpg)
Geology
Hydrogeochemistry
Environmental Geotechnics
Environmental Geochemistry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,406
1,505
0.626
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Shamil Naoum](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/0f/1160274.jpg)
Construction Project Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,805
1,493
0.392
![Zhongsheng Chen](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/7e/716036.jpg)
Hydrology and Hydroclimatology、Big data、Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and the Environment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,183
1,402
0.642
![Indrajit Ray](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/47/654640.jpg)
Advanced concrete materials
Durability of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP)-concrete composites
Sustainable construction material
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,341
1,265
0.540
![Festus A Olutoge](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/81/660021.jpg)
Civil Engineering
Structures
Materials
Composites
Concrete
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,436
1,154
0.804
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Hung Liang Roger Chen](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/d1/834536.jpg)
Structural Engineering
Nondestructive Evaluation
Structural Dynamics
Concrete materials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,852
1,071
0.376
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Samuel J. Abbey](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/c3/4730914.jpg)
Associate Professor & Associate Director/Head of Subject
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
995
949
0.954
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Omar I Abdul Aziz|O.I. Abdul-Aziz, O.I.A. Aziz, Omar Ibne Abdul-Aziz](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e1/834560.jpg)
Ecological-Water Resources Engineering
Scaling and robust predictions of ecohydrological and
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,376
676
0.491
![Aristotelis E. Charalampakis](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/07/1839246.jpg)
Inelastic Structural Analysis
Structural Dynamics
Optimization
Metaheuristics
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,079
653
0.605
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Nicolas Zegre](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
hydrology
watersheds
climate
environmental change
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
876
585
0.668
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Nikos Pnevmatikos](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e4/1845504.jpg)
Structural control
Damage detection
Seismic vulnerability
Bridge engineering
Multi hazard Design
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
792
585
0.739
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![C Repapis](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Earthquake Engineering
Reinforced Concrete Structures
Engineering seismology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
790
545
0.690
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Joseph P Rizzuto](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/f4/5276114.jpg)
Structural Engineering
Civil Engineering
Materials
Sustainability
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
751
498
0.663
![Szymon Skibicki](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Structural Engineering
Materials Engineering
Civil Engineering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
412
397
0.964
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Livia Lantini](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Civil Engineering
Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
Ground Penetrating Radar
Signal Processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
339
336
0.991
![Amir Ayazi](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/ec/4449942.jpg)
Composite
steel shear wall
Performance based design
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
459
323
0.704
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Udaya Halabe](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Structural Engineering
Nondestructive Testing
Nondestructive Evaluation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,203
303
0.252
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Aneurin Grant](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/8d/4632133.jpg)
Sustainable Construction
Urban Metabolism
Adequate and Affordable Housing
Water Conservation
Environmental Assessment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
425
294
0.692
![Jan Kopp](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
socio-hydrology
ecohydrology
regional geography
sustainable development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
608
286
0.470
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
![Tomasz Wróblewski](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/60/4747419.jpg)
steel-concrete composite construction
vibration
damage detection
3d printing
concrete
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
313
198
0.633
Christo Venter
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,050
14,594
0.364
Pulsars
gamma-ray astronomy
globular clusters
cosmic rays
Ismail B Celik
West Virginia University
Morgantown, United States
![United States](/flags/us.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,964
5,640
0.471
Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Fuel Cells
Combustion
Fabio Tosti
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,809
2,220
0.790
GPR
remote sensing
civil engineering
pavement engineering
non-destructive testing methods
Wenzhong Zhu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,162
1,812
0.435
Construction Materials
Nanotechnology
Micro-mechanical characterisation
Kourosh Behzadian
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,133
1,622
0.760
Hydro-environment
Decision Support
Optimisation
Multi-criteria decision
AI & data mining
Dimitrios E. Alexakis
University of West Attica
Egaleo, Greece
![Greece](/flags/gr.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,406
1,505
0.626
Geology
Hydrogeochemistry
Environmental Geotechnics
Environmental Geochemistry
Shamil Naoum
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,805
1,493
0.392
Construction Project Management
Zhongsheng Chen
China West Normal University
Nanchong, China
![China](/flags/cn.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,183
1,402
0.642
Hydrology and Hydroclimatology、Big data、Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and the Environment
Indrajit Ray
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,341
1,265
0.540
Advanced concrete materials
Durability of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP)-concrete composites
Sustainable construction material
Festus A Olutoge
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,436
1,154
0.804
Civil Engineering
Structures
Materials
Composites
Concrete
Hung Liang Roger Chen
West Virginia University
Morgantown, United States
![United States](/flags/us.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,852
1,071
0.376
Structural Engineering
Nondestructive Evaluation
Structural Dynamics
Concrete materials
Samuel J. Abbey
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
995
949
0.954
Associate Professor & Associate Director/Head of Subject
Omar I Abdul Aziz|O.I. Abdul-Aziz, O.I.A. Aziz, Omar Ibne Abdul-Aziz
West Virginia University
Morgantown, United States
![United States](/flags/us.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,376
676
0.491
Ecological-Water Resources Engineering
Scaling and robust predictions of ecohydrological and
Aristotelis E. Charalampakis
University of West Attica
Egaleo, Greece
![Greece](/flags/gr.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,079
653
0.605
Inelastic Structural Analysis
Structural Dynamics
Optimization
Metaheuristics
Machine Learning
Nicolas Zegre
West Virginia University
Morgantown, United States
![United States](/flags/us.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
876
585
0.668
hydrology
watersheds
climate
environmental change
Nikos Pnevmatikos
University of West Attica
Egaleo, Greece
![Greece](/flags/gr.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
792
585
0.739
Structural control
Damage detection
Seismic vulnerability
Bridge engineering
Multi hazard Design
C Repapis
University of West Attica
Egaleo, Greece
![Greece](/flags/gr.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
790
545
0.690
Earthquake Engineering
Reinforced Concrete Structures
Engineering seismology
Joseph P Rizzuto
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
751
498
0.663
Structural Engineering
Civil Engineering
Materials
Sustainability
Szymon Skibicki
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
412
397
0.964
Structural Engineering
Materials Engineering
Civil Engineering
Livia Lantini
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
339
336
0.991
Civil Engineering
Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
Ground Penetrating Radar
Signal Processing
Amir Ayazi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
459
323
0.704
Composite
steel shear wall
Performance based design
Udaya Halabe
West Virginia University
Morgantown, United States
![United States](/flags/us.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,203
303
0.252
Structural Engineering
Nondestructive Testing
Nondestructive Evaluation
Aneurin Grant
University of West Florida
Pensacola, United States
![United States](/flags/us.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
425
294
0.692
Sustainable Construction
Urban Metabolism
Adequate and Affordable Housing
Water Conservation
Environmental Assessment
Jan Kopp
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
608
286
0.470
socio-hydrology
ecohydrology
regional geography
sustainable development
Tomasz Wróblewski
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
313
198
0.633
steel-concrete composite construction
vibration
damage detection
3d printing
concrete