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Researcher · Middlebury College · United States

Alan R. Berens

Alan R. Berens publishes mostly in Polymers and Plastics, Mechanical Engineering and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Polymer Science and PVC, Polymer crystallization and properties and Membrane Separation and Gas Transport.

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World rank
#357,413
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#127,944
of 1,627,098
Works
38
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
88.0
h-index
28
i10-index 35Top 11% in Polymers and Plastics
Alan R. Berens

What does Alan R. Berens research?

Alan R. Berens's work is mostly in Materials Science (52%), Engineering (16%), Chemistry (13%).

Physical Sciences: 31 works · 81.1% of their workMaterials Science: 20 works · 51.9% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 18 works · 48.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 3.8% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 16.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 4 works · 11.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 4.7% of their workChemistry: 5 works · 13.2% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 3 works · 6.6% of their workSpectroscopy: 3 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 18.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan R. Berens38works
Physical Sciences81%

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 Science2051.9%
    2. Engineering616.0%
    3. Chemistry513.2%
  2. Everything else718.9%
  1. 1Polymers and Plastics48% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry7% of their works
  4. 4Spectroscopy7% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan R. Berens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plasticizers, Poly(vinyl chloride), Nanoparticles, Polymer Blends, Polymer Crystallization, Membrane Gas Separation, Mixed Matrix Membranes and Polymer Foaming.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Plasticizers231 topic
  2. Poly(vinyl chloride)231 topic
  3. Nanoparticles172 topics
  4. Polymer Blends141 topic
  5. Polymer Crystallization141 topic
  6. Membrane Gas Separation81 topic
  7. Mixed Matrix Membranes81 topic
  8. Polymer Foaming81 topic
  9. Supercritical Carbon Dioxide81 topic
  10. Click Chemistry71 topic
  11. Living Radical Polymerization71 topic
  12. Glass Transition41 topic
  13. Supercooled Liquids41 topic
  14. Surface Characterization41 topic
  15. Thermodynamic Parameters41 topic
  16. Extraction31 topic
  17. Supercritical Fluids31 topic

Where does Alan R. Berens work?

Alan R. Berens's main affiliation in the publication record is Middlebury College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan R. Berens have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 3,345 citations for Alan R. Berens, an h-index of 28, ranking #357,413 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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