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Researcher · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · France

Alain Durocher

Alain Durocher publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Fusion materials and technologies, Nuclear Materials and Properties and Magnetic confinement fusion research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,483,711
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#66,656
of 324,115
Works
68
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
27.4
h-index
22
i10-index 45Top 25% in Materials Chemistry
Alain Durocher

What does Alain Durocher research?

Alain Durocher's work is mostly in Materials Science (42%), Engineering (30%), Physics and Astronomy (17%).

Physical Sciences: 60 works · 88.3% of their workMaterials Science: 28 works · 41.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 28 works · 41.5% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 29.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 10 works · 14.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 6 works · 8.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 4 works · 6.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 works · 17.0% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 8 works · 12.2% of their workRadiation: 3 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 11.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlain Durocher68works
Physical Sciences88%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Materials Science2841.5%
    2. Engineering2029.8%
    3. Physics and Astronomy1217.0%
  2. Everything else811.7%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry42% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics12% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Radiation5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alain Durocher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: fusion materials, radiation damage, Accident Tolerant Fuels, Fuel Cladding, Tokamak, Turbulence, Nb3Sn Conductor and Superconducting Magnets.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. fusion materials481 topic
  2. radiation damage481 topic
  3. Accident Tolerant Fuels231 topic
  4. Fuel Cladding231 topic
  5. Tokamak231 topic
  6. Turbulence231 topic
  7. Nb3Sn Conductor121 topic
  8. Superconducting Magnets121 topic
  9. Metallurgy101 topic
  10. Thermochemical101 topic
  11. Molten Salt91 topic
  12. Neutron Imaging91 topic
  13. Nuclear Reactor91 topic
  14. Small-Angle Scattering91 topic
  15. Residual Stress81 topic
  16. Welding81 topic

Where does Alain Durocher work?

Alain Durocher's main affiliation in the publication record is Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, France.

How many publications and citations does Alain Durocher have?

OpenAlex counts 68 works and 1,862 citations for Alain Durocher, an h-index of 22, ranking #1,483,711 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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