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Researcher · Central Electricity Generating Board · United Kingdom

A. F. Smith

A. F. Smith publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as High-Temperature Coating Behaviors, Nuclear Materials and Properties and Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals.

OpenAlex
World rank
#916,278
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#75,052
of 367,258
Works
58
Citations
988
Citations per work
17.0
h-index
17
i10-index 28Top 37% in Materials Chemistry
A. F. Smith

What does A. F. Smith research?

A. F. Smith's work is mostly in Engineering (39%), Materials Science (27%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 40 works · 69.6% of their workEngineering: 23 works · 39.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 10 works · 16.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 8 works · 13.8% of their workMechanics of Materials: 5 works · 8.4% of their workMaterials Science: 16 works · 27.0% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 13 works · 21.6% of their workMetals and Alloys: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 3.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 2 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 30.4% of their workTHEIR WORKA. F. Smith58works
Physical Sciences70%

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. Engineering2339.0%
    2. Materials Science1627.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences23.6%
  2. Everything else1830.4%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry22% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials8% of their works
  5. 5Metals and Alloys5% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe A. F. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mechanical Properties, Hydrogen Embrittlement, Microstructural Evolution, Microstructure, Corrosion Behavior, Gas Turbine Engines, Thermal Barrier Coatings and Accident Tolerant Fuels.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Mechanical Properties274 topics
  2. Hydrogen Embrittlement202 topics
  3. Microstructural Evolution172 topics
  4. Microstructure152 topics
  5. Corrosion Behavior142 topics
  6. Gas Turbine Engines121 topic
  7. Thermal Barrier Coatings121 topic
  8. Accident Tolerant Fuels111 topic
  9. Fuel Cladding111 topic
  10. Passive Films91 topic
  11. Stainless Steels91 topic
  12. High-Temperature Alloys81 topic
  13. Superalloys81 topic
  14. Cryogenic Treatment71 topic
  15. Finite Element Simulation71 topic
  16. Fretting Wear71 topic
  17. Wear Resistance71 topic
  18. Nanoindentation61 topic
  19. Thin Films61 topic
  20. Aerospace Applications51 topic
  21. Aluminium Alloys51 topic

Where does A. F. Smith work?

A. F. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Central Electricity Generating Board, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does A. F. Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 988 citations for A. F. Smith, an h-index of 17, ranking #916,278 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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