OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Underground Space is 30. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Soft computing approach for prediction of surface settlement induced by earth pressure balance shield tunneling	154
Estimation of the TBM advance rate under hard rock conditions using XGBoost and Bayesian optimization	151
Deformation analysis and safety assessment of existing metro tunnels affected by excavation of a foundation pit	97
Rockburst in underground excavations: A review of mechanism, classification, and prediction methods	80
Underground space use of urban built-up areas in the central city of Nanjing: Insight based on a dynamic population distribution	80
Scientific problems and research proposals for Sichuan–Tibet railway tunnel construction	75
Stability analysis of underground mine hard rock pillars via combination of finite difference methods, neural networks, and Monte Carlo simulation techniques	69
Centrifuge modelling of tunnelling below existing twin tunnels with different types of support	66
Assessment of basal heave stability for braced excavations in anisotropic clay using extreme gradient boosting and random forest regression	59
Use of soft computing techniques for tunneling optimization of tunnel boring machines	55
Prediction of lining response for twin tunnels constructed in anisotropic clay using machine learning techniques	50
TBM penetration rate prediction based on the long short-term memory neural network	49
Tunneling and deep excavations in spatially variable soil and rock masses: A short review	49
Long rectangular box jacking project: A case study	48
Design equation for stability of a circular tunnel in anisotropic and heterogeneous clay	46
Unpacking data-centric geotechnics	45
Evaluation of the propensity of strain burst in brittle granite based on post-peak energy analysis	41
Intelligent rockburst prediction model with sample category balance using feedforward neural network and Bayesian optimization	41
Numerical simulation and analysis of the pile underpinning technology used in shield tunnel crossings on bridge pile foundations	39
State of the art review of the large deformation rock bolts	37
An improved artificial bee colony-random forest (IABC-RF) model for predicting the tunnel deformation due to an adjacent foundation pit excavation	37
Effect of rock bolt support mechanism on tunnel deformation in jointed rockmass: A numerical approach	37
Three-dimensional theoretical analysis of seepage field in front of shield tunnel face	34
Significance and methodology: Preprocessing the big data for machine learning on TBM performance	33
Novel SfM-DLT method for metro tunnel 3D reconstruction and Visualization	32

Effects of underground explosions on soil and structures	32
Neural network and support vector machine models for the prediction of the liquefaction-induced uplift displacement of tunnels	32
Feedback on a shared big dataset for intelligent TBM Part I: Feature extraction and machine learning methods	31
Seismic behaviors of utility tunnel-soil system: With and without joint connections	31
3D reconstruction and automatic leakage defect quantification of metro tunnel based on SfM-Deep learning method	30
Experimental and numerical studies of the blast-induced overbreak and underbreak in underground roadways	30
Fragility assessment of tunnels in soft soils using artificial neural networks	30