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Researcher · HRL Laboratories (United States) · United States

Alan J. Jacobsen

Alan J. Jacobsen publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Cellular and Composite Structures, Advanced Materials and Mechanics and Mechanical Behavior of Composites.

OpenAlex
World rank
#368,544
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#131,623
of 1,627,098
Works
31
Citations
3k
Citations per work
96.3
h-index
22
i10-index 27Top 12% in Mechanical Engineering
Alan J. Jacobsen

What does Alan J. Jacobsen research?

Alan J. Jacobsen's work is mostly in Engineering (49%), Materials Science (16%).

Physical Sciences: 20 works · 65.9% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 49.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 11 works · 35.3% of their workMechanics of Materials: 2 works · 5.9% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 1 works · 4.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 3.5% of their workMaterials Science: 5 works · 16.5% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 3 works · 9.4% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 34.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan J. Jacobsen31works
Physical Sciences66%

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. Engineering1549.4%
    2. Materials Science516.5%
  2. Everything else1134.1%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering35% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics9% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials6% of their works
  5. 5Automotive Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan J. Jacobsen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mechanical Metamaterials, Additive Manufacturing, Cellular Metals, Metal Foams, Shape Memory Polymers, Biodegradable Polymers, Biomimetic and Polymer Films.

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 Metamaterials272 topics
  2. Additive Manufacturing202 topics
  3. Cellular Metals171 topic
  4. Metal Foams171 topic
  5. Shape Memory Polymers142 topics
  6. Biodegradable Polymers113 topics
  7. Biomimetic101 topic
  8. Polymer Films101 topic
  9. Polymer Composites72 topics
  10. Cohesive Zone Models41 topic
  11. Delamination41 topic
  12. Polymer Foaming41 topic
  13. Renewable Resources41 topic
  14. Self-Healing41 topic
  15. Supercritical Carbon Dioxide41 topic
  16. 3D Printing31 topic
  17. Marine Environment31 topic
  18. Materials31 topic
  19. Microplastics31 topic
  20. Polyhydroxyalkanoates31 topic
  21. Polylactic Acid31 topic

Where does Alan J. Jacobsen work?

Alan J. Jacobsen's main affiliation in the publication record is HRL Laboratories (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan J. Jacobsen have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 2,984 citations for Alan J. Jacobsen, an h-index of 22, ranking #368,544 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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