Susanga Costa

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 955 citations indexed

About

Susanga Costa is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Susanga Costa has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 955 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 15 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 5 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Susanga Costa's work include Landslides and related hazards (15 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (13 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization (8 papers). Susanga Costa is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (15 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (13 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization (8 papers). Susanga Costa collaborates with scholars based in Australia, India and Iran. Susanga Costa's co-authors include Jayantha Kodikara, Abolfazl Baghbani, Tanveer Choudhury, Benjamin Shannon, Johannes Reiner, Dilan Robert, Sujeeva Setunge, Umashankar Balunaini, Abbas Mohajerani and D. G. Fredlund and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Construction and Building Materials and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Susanga Costa

30 papers receiving 930 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.

  1. Application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering: A state-of-the-art review
    2022 210 citations Abolfazl Baghbani, Tanveer Choudhury et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Susanga Costa Australia 14 819 338 117 116 116 31 955
Chaminda Gallage Australia 17 806 1.0× 182 0.5× 78 0.7× 151 1.3× 126 1.1× 107 992
Xia Bian China 21 898 1.1× 115 0.3× 106 0.9× 153 1.3× 114 1.0× 53 1.1k
Yongfu Xu China 17 668 0.8× 190 0.6× 90 0.8× 74 0.6× 42 0.4× 30 777
Gary Fowmes United Kingdom 19 531 0.6× 165 0.5× 137 1.2× 206 1.8× 81 0.7× 36 722
Wei-Qiang Feng China 20 882 1.1× 206 0.6× 128 1.1× 61 0.5× 59 0.5× 72 1.1k
Yongsheng Yao China 14 617 0.8× 163 0.5× 113 1.0× 42 0.4× 52 0.4× 41 764
Marcos Massao Futai Brazil 18 713 0.9× 150 0.4× 173 1.5× 66 0.6× 53 0.5× 83 945
Louis Ge Taiwan 26 1.4k 1.7× 243 0.7× 150 1.3× 98 0.8× 130 1.1× 93 1.7k
Masoud Hajialilue‐Bonab Iran 16 695 0.8× 104 0.3× 85 0.7× 50 0.4× 93 0.8× 67 835
Hamed Sadeghi Iran 17 827 1.0× 517 1.5× 80 0.7× 77 0.7× 27 0.2× 67 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Susanga Costa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Susanga Costa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Susanga Costa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Susanga Costa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Susanga Costa based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Susanga Costa. Susanga Costa is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Sainsbury, Bre‐Anne, et al.. (2025). Sustainable circular co-disposal of mining waste for cost efficiency. Cleaner Waste Systems. 11. 100321–100321. 1 indexed citations
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Baghbani, Abolfazl, Tanveer Choudhury, & Susanga Costa. (2025). Artificial-Intelligence-Based Prediction of Crack and Shrinkage Intensity Factor in Clay Soils During Desiccation. Designs. 9(3). 54–54. 1 indexed citations
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Costa, Susanga, et al.. (2025). Micro-tunnelling technique and its applicability for soft soils: A review. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. 1–20.
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Balunaini, Umashankar, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of cement-treated recycled concrete aggregates for sustainable pavement base/subbase construction. Construction and Building Materials. 449. 138417–138417. 6 indexed citations
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Baghbani, Abolfazl, et al.. (2023). Ultrasonic Characterization of Compacted Salty Kaolin–Sand Mixtures Under Nearly Zero Vertical Stress Using Experimental Study and Machine Learning. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. 41(5). 2987–3012. 15 indexed citations
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Baghbani, Abolfazl, et al.. (2023). Effects of particle shape on shear modulus of sand using dynamic simple shear testing. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 16(7). 11 indexed citations
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Shelyag, Sergiy, et al.. (2023). Particle morphology characterization of waste-tyre-stabilized rock aggregates via computational geometric modellings. Powder Technology. 433. 119187–119187. 1 indexed citations
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Baghbani, Abolfazl, et al.. (2023). Modeling the Effects of Particle Shape on Damping Ratio of Dry Sand by Simple Shear Testing and Artificial Intelligence. Applied Sciences. 13(7). 4363–4363. 14 indexed citations
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Jamhiri, Babak, Yongfu Xu, Mahdi Shadabfar, & Susanga Costa. (2023). Probabilistic machine learning for predicting desiccation cracks in clayey soils. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 82(9). 13 indexed citations
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Baghbani, Abolfazl, Tanveer Choudhury, Susanga Costa, & Johannes Reiner. (2022). Application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering: A state-of-the-art review. Earth-Science Reviews. 228. 103991–103991. 210 indexed citations breakdown →
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Baghbani, Abolfazl, Tanveer Choudhury, Pijush Samui, & Susanga Costa. (2022). Prediction of secant shear modulus and damping ratio for an extremely dilative silica sand based on machine learning techniques. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 165. 107708–107708. 31 indexed citations
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Robert, Dilan, et al.. (2021). Use of secondary additives in fly ash based soil stabilization for soft subgrades. Transportation Geotechnics. 29. 100585–100585. 66 indexed citations
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Costa, Susanga, et al.. (2020). Mitigation of desiccation cracks in clay using fibre and enzyme. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 79(8). 4429–4440. 21 indexed citations
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Costa, Susanga, et al.. (2015). Determination ofJ-integral for clay during desiccation. Environmental Geotechnics. 3(6). 372–378. 10 indexed citations
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Costa, Susanga, et al.. (2014). Preliminary modelling of hydro-thermal behaviour of ground reactive zone due to climate change. 895–902. 1 indexed citations
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Costa, Susanga, Jayantha Kodikara, & Benjamin Shannon. (2012). Salient factors controlling desiccation cracking of clay in laboratory experiments. Géotechnique. 63(1). 18–29. 181 indexed citations
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Costa, Susanga, Jayantha Kodikara, & NI Thusyanthan. (2008). Modelling of desiccation crack development in clay soils. Own your potential (DEAKIN). 11 indexed citations

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