Harn Wei Kua

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
98 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Harn Wei Kua is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Harn Wei Kua has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Building and Construction, 35 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 28 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Harn Wei Kua's work include Concrete and Cement Materials Research (31 papers), Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (20 papers) and Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (17 papers). Harn Wei Kua is often cited by papers focused on Concrete and Cement Materials Research (31 papers), Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (20 papers) and Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (17 papers). Harn Wei Kua collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and South Korea. Harn Wei Kua's co-authors include Souradeep Gupta, Sze Dai Pang, Yong Sik Ok, Shravan Muthukrishnan, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Sumin Kim, Pavani Dulanja Dissanayake, Gladman Thondhlana, Yujie Lu and Deyi Hou and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Harn Wei Kua

97 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Use of biochar as carbon sequestering additive in cement mortar

2017 374 citations Souradeep Gupta, Harn Wei Kua et al. Cement and Concrete Composites profile →
Biochar-based adsorbents for carbon dioxide capture: A critical review

2019 326 citations Souradeep Gupta, Harn Wei Kua et al. profile →
Application of biochar from food and wood waste as green admixture for cement mortar

2017 312 citations Souradeep Gupta, Harn Wei Kua et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Application of biochar in concrete – A review

2023 107 citations Sachini Supunsala Senadheera, Souradeep Gupta et al. Cement and Concrete Composites profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Harn Wei Kua Singapore	41	3.2k	2.4k	1.5k	830	811	98	6.2k
Jin Yang China	44	3.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	809 0.6×	451 0.5×	1.5k 1.9×	166	6.0k
Nikolai Vatin Russia	46	4.4k 1.4×	4.7k 2.0×	731 0.5×	966 1.2×	1.8k 2.2×	519	9.0k
M.F.M. Zain Malaysia	42	3.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	533 0.4×	318 0.4×	1.4k 1.7×	230	6.3k
Lynn Price United States	41	1.5k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	2.6k 1.8×	1.1k 1.3×	567 0.7×	106	6.8k
Shu-Yuan Pan Taiwan	53	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	2.9k 2.0×	1.9k 2.3×	1.3k 1.7×	142	9.2k
Sujeeva Setunge Australia	49	5.5k 1.7×	4.8k 2.0×	1.1k 0.8×	599 0.7×	992 1.2×	315	8.2k
Sabbie A. Miller United States	29	3.7k 1.2×	2.7k 1.1×	929 0.6×	373 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	80	5.5k
Guillaume Habert Switzerland	56	5.8k 1.8×	8.6k 3.6×	3.4k 2.3×	682 0.8×	1.5k 1.9×	229	13.2k
Sami G. Al‐Ghamdi Qatar	43	658 0.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	657 0.8×	226 0.3×	186	5.6k
F. Pacheco‐Torgal Portugal	47	6.9k 2.2×	4.7k 2.0×	679 0.5×	440 0.5×	2.4k 3.0×	137	9.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harn Wei Kua

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jitsangiam, Peerapong, et al.. (2025). Corn waste-derived biochar as a sustainable fine aggregate in pervious concrete for climate-resilient urban pavement applications. Developments in the Built Environment. 23. 100735–100735.

Ee, Alvin Wei Liang, et al.. (2025). Circular economy for the building industry: Life cycle assessment of biochar-enhanced concrete. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 223. 108537–108537. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Zhiyuan, et al.. (2024). Eco-sustainable design of seawater sea-sand slag-based geopolymer mortars incorporating ternary solid waste. Construction and Building Materials. 431. 136512–136512. 22 indexed citations

Ee, Alvin Wei Liang, Jonathan T.E. Lee, Hailin Tian, et al.. (2024). Current status on utilizing a life cycle system perspective to evaluate renewable energy production systems for achieving UN SDGs. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 203. 107381–107381. 14 indexed citations

Xiong, Teng, et al.. (2023). Graphene nanoplatelets and copper foams for improving passive cooling performance of PCMs in Singapore's tropical climate. Journal of Energy Storage. 80. 110195–110195. 11 indexed citations

Yang, Zhiyuan, et al.. (2023). Performance-based alkali-activated seawater sea-sand concrete: Mixture optimization for mechanical, environmental, and economical objectives. Construction and Building Materials. 409. 134156–134156. 27 indexed citations

Kua, Harn Wei, et al.. (2023). Novel typology of accelerated carbonation curing: using dry and pre-soaked biochar to tune carbon capture and mechanical properties of cementitious mortar. Biochar. 5(1). 47 indexed citations

Senadheera, Sachini Supunsala, Souradeep Gupta, Harn Wei Kua, et al.. (2023). Application of biochar in concrete – A review. Cement and Concrete Composites. 143. 105204–105204. 107 indexed citations breakdown →

Kua, Harn Wei, Xin He, Hailin Tian, et al.. (2022). Life cycle climate change mitigation through next-generation urban waste recovery systems in high-density Asian cities: A Singapore Case Study. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 181. 106265–106265. 15 indexed citations

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Gupta, Souradeep, et al.. (2020). Application of biochar from coconut and wood waste to reduce shrinkage and improve physical properties of silica fume-cement mortar. Construction and Building Materials. 262. 120688–120688. 133 indexed citations

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Wang, Lei, Liang Chen, Daniel C.W. Tsang, et al.. (2019). The roles of biochar as green admixture for sediment-based construction products. Cement and Concrete Composites. 104. 103348–103348. 179 indexed citations

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Wang, Lei, Liang Chen, Dong-Wan Cho, et al.. (2018). Novel synergy of Si-rich minerals and reactive MgO for stabilisation/solidification of contaminated sediment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 365. 695–706. 160 indexed citations

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Kua, Harn Wei. (2017). On Life Cycle Sustainability Unified Analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(6). 1488–1506. 12 indexed citations

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Gloria, Thomas P., Jeroen B. Guinée, Harn Wei Kua, Bhawna Singh, & Reid Lifset. (2017). Charting the Future of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Special Issue. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(6). 1449–1453. 19 indexed citations

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Gupta, Souradeep, et al.. (2017). Application of biochar from food and wood waste as green admixture for cement mortar. The Science of The Total Environment. 619-620. 419–435. 312 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ng, Tsan Sheng, et al.. (2017). Modeling environmental impacts and risk under data uncertainties. IISE Transactions. 49(12). 1150–1159. 4 indexed citations

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Kua, Harn Wei, et al.. (2016). Steel‐versus‐Concrete Debate Revisited: Global Warming Potential and Embodied Energy Analyses based on Attributional and Consequential Life Cycle Perspectives. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(1). 82–100. 26 indexed citations

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Sarkis, Joseph, Diego Vázquez‐Brust, Theo de Bruijn, et al.. (2014). Helping to build a sustainable future through the greening of industry and its networks: knowledge sharing and action promotion. Journal of Cleaner Production. 98. 8–16. 11 indexed citations

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Kua, Harn Wei. (2013). The Consequences of Substituting Sand with Used Copper Slag in Construction. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 17(6). 869–879. 29 indexed citations

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Kua, Harn Wei. (2007). Information Flow and Its Significance in Coherently Integrated Policymaking for Promoting Energy Efficiency. Environmental Science & Technology. 41(9). 3047–3054. 23 indexed citations

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