Materials Engineering and Processing Leaderboard

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1

Branavan Arulmoly

University of Sri Jayewardenepura

2

Ahmed M. Maglad

Najran University

3

BramahHazela

Unknown

4

Junxiong Zhan

Shanghai Institute of Technology

5

Mujahid Ali

Shandong University

6

Xu Yang

Zhejiang Ocean University

7

Ziyao Wei

Northwestern Polytechnical University

8

Guijie Zhao

Changchun Institute of Technology

9

Nurul Anwar

Aalto University

10

Fábio Friol Guedes de Paiva

Centro Universitário de Várzea Grande

Rising Stars Papers

1

Evaluation of water quality indexes with novel machine learning and SHapley Additive ExPlanation (SHAP) approaches

Journal of Water Process Engineering|2024

143 cit.

2

Predictive modelling of compressive strength of fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag based geopolymer concrete using machine learning techniques

Case Studies in Construction Materials|2024

45 cit.

3

Utilization of high fine-grained shield tunnel spoil in CLSM and effect of foam agent content on properties

Construction and Building Materials|2024

31 cit.

4

Impact of anionic surfactant-based foaming agents on the properties of lightweight foamed concrete

Construction and Building Materials|2024

30 cit.

5

Exploring the influence of calcinated eggshell powder on lightweight foamed concrete: A comprehensive study on freshness, mechanical strength, thermal characteristics and transport properties

Journal of Building Engineering|2024

29 cit.

6

Synergistic effect of waste gypsum plasterboard and fly ash as partial cement replacement on fresh-state, microstructural, mechanical and transport properties of foamed concrete

Construction and Building Materials|2025

23 cit.

7

Impact of aggregate gradation and asphalt-aggregate ratio on pavement performance during construction using back propagation neural network

Automation in Construction|2024

21 cit.

8

Molten chloride salt pyrolysis of biomass: Effects of temperature and mass ratio of molten salt to biomass

Energy|2025

21 cit.

9

Travel Mode Choice Prediction to Pursue Sustainable Transportation and Enhance Health Parameters Using R

Sustainability|2024

17 cit.

10

Predicting engineering properties of controlled low-strength material made from waste soil using optimized SVR models

Case Studies in Construction Materials|2024

15 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Papers

1

Shell Waste Management and Utilization: Mitigating Organic Pollution and Enhancing Sustainability

Applied Sciences|2023

178 cit.

2

Synergistic effect and mechanism of lithium slag on mechanical properties and microstructure of steel slag-cement system

Construction and Building Materials|2023

109 cit.

3

Modelling the compressive strength of geopolymer recycled aggregate concrete using ensemble machine learning

Advances in Engineering Software|2024

76 cit.

4

Sustainable mix design of recycled aggregate concrete using artificial intelligence

Journal of Cleaner Production|2024

59 cit.

5

Green Methanol—An Important Pathway to Realize Carbon Neutrality

Engineering|2023

50 cit.

6

Metaheuristic optimization based- ensemble learners for the carbonation assessment of recycled aggregate concrete

Applied Soft Computing|2024

44 cit.

7

Modeling the chloride migration of recycled aggregate concrete using ensemble learners for sustainable building construction

Journal of Cleaner Production|2023

39 cit.

8

Determinants of purchase likelihood for partially and fully automated vehicles: Insights from mixed logit model with heterogeneity in means and variances

Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice|2022

36 cit.

9

Concrete chloride diffusion modelling using marine creatures-based metaheuristic artificial intelligence

Journal of Cleaner Production|2022

35 cit.

10

A framework for low-carbon mix design of recycled aggregate concrete with supplementary cementitious materials using machine learning and optimization algorithms

Structures|2024

35 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1

Microwave processing: fundamentals and applications

Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing|1999

1.5k cit.

2

Recent advances in understanding the role of supplementary cementitious materials in concrete

Cement and Concrete Research|2015

1.2k cit.

3

Effect of microstructure of ITZ on compressive strength of concrete prepared with recycled aggregates

Construction and Building Materials|2004

1k cit.

4

Influence of moisture states of natural and recycled aggregates on the slump and compressive strength of concrete

Cement and Concrete Research|2003

881 cit.

5

Photocatalytic construction and building materials: From fundamentals to applications

Building and Environment|2009

716 cit.

6

Degree of hydration and gel/space ratio of high-volume fly ash/cement systems

Cement and Concrete Research|2000

705 cit.

7

Dominant role of tunneling resistance in the electrical conductivity of carbon nanotube–based composites

Applied Physics Letters|2007

681 cit.

8

Compressive strength, chloride diffusivity and pore structure of high performance metakaolin and silica fume concrete

Construction and Building Materials|2005

663 cit.

9

State of the Art in Evaluation and Control of Steel Cleanliness.

ISIJ International|2003

663 cit.

10

Carbon Nanotube Networks: Sensing of Distributed Strain and Damage for Life Prediction and Self Healing

Advanced Materials|2006

658 cit.

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