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The comprehensive competitiveness evaluation of American universities in Bridge Engineering

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This article explores a method of evaluating the comprehensive competitiveness of American universities in Bridge Engineering, which is beneficial for students’ picking up an ideal university for further study in America. Making use of ESI database, SCI database and EI database as well as the ranking of American universities from U.S. News and World Report, the author evaluates the comprehensive competitiveness of American universities in Bridge Engineering, and then develops the ranking of comprehensive competitiveness of American universities in Bridge Engineering specialty. From the ranking, the author reaches the conclusion that American universities such as University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and Georgia Institute of Technology and so on, have comparatively higher international influence and competitiveness in the field of Bridge Engineering.

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  1. Library, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116, People’s Republic of China

    Yuan Wang & Xia Liu

  2. School of Management, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030006, People’s Republic of China

    Ruimin Ma

  3. School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210096, People’s Republic of China

    Tianhao Tang

  4. Library, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, 212013, People’s Republic of China

    Ping Xie

  5. Faculty of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116, People’s Republic of China

    Jianxin Wang, Jianxiang Liu & Siwei Zhang

  6. School of Mines, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116, People’s Republic of China

    Haideng Zhou

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Wang, Y., Ma, R., Tang, T. et al. The comprehensive competitiveness evaluation of American universities in Bridge Engineering. Scientometrics 91, 693–701 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0616-x

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