Doctor José A.F.O. Correia, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Structural Integrity, was distinguished with the Award of Merit 2022 for the outstanding contribution to structural integrity and his service to the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). Since 2019, Doctor José A.F.O. Correia is included in the world's top 2% scientists list of the Stanford University ranking.

Currently, Doctor José A.F.O. Correia is a Researcher of CONSTRUCT (Institute of R&D in Structures and Construction) and INEGI (Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) of the University of Porto (Portugal), an Invited Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), a Guest Teacher at the Engineering Structures Department of the Civil Engineering and Geosciences Faculty of the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and an Invited Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD, Portugal). Additionally, Doctor José A.F.O. Correia has several honorary positions attributed by institutions of world reference: - Adjunct Professor at the Xi'an Jiaotong University (China); - Guest Professor at NIT Silchar (India); and, - Guest Professor at São Paulo State University (Brazil).

He is the co-author of more than 160 scientific journal papers in the most relevant scientific journals devoted to structural integrity, fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures, 250 proceedings in international and national conferences, congresses and workshops, 12 book chapters and 9 books (as co-editor and/or co-author). In the Scopus platform, he is the (co)author of 272 scientific documents and has an h-index equal to 34. He was/is also a team member of the organization and participated in approved national (Portugal) and European research projects (21 research projects).

Proof of the international recognition of the scientific activities developed by Doctor José A.F.O. Correia were the recent appointments, 2017 and 2020,  as a co-chairman of the technical committees called "ESIS TC12 - Risk analysis and safety of large structures and components" and "ESIS TC3 - Fatigue of Engineering Materials and Structures", respectively, of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). He is a member of technical committees, CEN TC250 SC3 WG 1-9 Fatigue, CEN TC250 SC3 WG 1-10 Fracture, and CEN/CLC/JTC 20 Hyperloop systems, of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).