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Researcher · Culham Science Centre · United Kingdom

Alastair John Shepherd

Alastair John Shepherd publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Magnetic confinement fusion research, Particle accelerators and beam dynamics and Plasma Diagnostics and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0003-3182-9551 OpenAlex
World rank
#648,851
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#55,107
of 367,258
Works
41
Citations
1k
Citations per work
24.8
h-index
13
i10-index 15Top 16% in Aerospace Engineering
Alastair John Shepherd

What does Alastair John Shepherd research?

Alastair John Shepherd's work is mostly in Engineering (56%), Physics and Astronomy (25%), Materials Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 36 works · 87.7% of their workEngineering: 23 works · 55.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 11 works · 26.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 works · 19.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 4.9% of their workOcean Engineering: 2 works · 4.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 10 works · 25.4% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 10 works · 25.4% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 6.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 12.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAlastair JohnShepherd41works
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. Engineering2355.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1025.4%
    3. Materials Science36.6%
  2. Everything else512.3%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering26% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics25% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering20% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair John Shepherd's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tokamak, Turbulence, Negative Ion Sources, Superconducting Cavities, Plasma Etching, Semiconductor Industry, fusion materials and radiation damage.

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. Tokamak301 topic
  2. Turbulence301 topic
  3. Negative Ion Sources291 topic
  4. Superconducting Cavities291 topic
  5. Plasma Etching181 topic
  6. Semiconductor Industry181 topic
  7. fusion materials81 topic
  8. radiation damage81 topic
  9. Free-Electron Lasers51 topic
  10. Nb3Sn Conductor51 topic
  11. Superconducting Magnets51 topic
  12. X-Ray51 topic
  13. Drilling Fluids31 topic
  14. Molten Salt31 topic
  15. Nuclear Reactor31 topic
  16. Well Integrity31 topic

Where does Alastair John Shepherd work?

Alastair John Shepherd's main affiliation in the publication record is Culham Science Centre, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alastair John Shepherd have?

OpenAlex counts 41 works and 1,017 citations for Alastair John Shepherd, an h-index of 13, ranking #648,851 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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