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Researcher · Culham Science Centre · United Kingdom

Alan H Sykes

Alan H Sykes publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Magnetic confinement fusion research, Superconducting Materials and Applications and Fusion materials and technologies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#905,055
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#74,205
of 367,258
Works
124
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
23.4
h-index
31
i10-index 57Top 25% in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Alan H Sykes

What does Alan H Sykes research?

Alan H Sykes's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (40%), Engineering (26%), Materials Science (12%).

Physical Sciences: 97 works · 78.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 50 works · 40.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 40 works · 32.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 10 works · 8.1% of their workEngineering: 33 works · 26.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 16 works · 12.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 14 works · 11.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 2.5% of their workMaterials Science: 14 works · 11.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 14 works · 11.5% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 21.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan H Sykes124works
Physical Sciences78%

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. Physics and Astronomy5040.2%
    2. Engineering3326.5%
    3. Materials Science1411.5%
  2. Everything else2721.8%
  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics32% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering13% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry12% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering11% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics8% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan H Sykes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tokamak, Turbulence, Nb3Sn Conductor, Superconducting Magnets, fusion materials, radiation damage, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere.

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. Tokamak901 topic
  2. Turbulence901 topic
  3. Nb3Sn Conductor401 topic
  4. Superconducting Magnets401 topic
  5. fusion materials371 topic
  6. radiation damage371 topic
  7. Ionosphere221 topic
  8. Magnetosphere221 topic
  9. Negative Ion Sources191 topic
  10. Superconducting Cavities191 topic
  11. Electron Beams101 topic
  12. Laser-Plasma Accelerators101 topic
  13. Molten Salt81 topic
  14. Nuclear Reactor81 topic
  15. Neutron Imaging61 topic
  16. Small-Angle Scattering61 topic

Where does Alan H Sykes work?

Alan H Sykes's main affiliation in the publication record is Culham Science Centre, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alan H Sykes have?

OpenAlex counts 124 works and 2,901 citations for Alan H Sykes, an h-index of 31, ranking #905,055 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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