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Researcher · Macaulay Development Trust · United Kingdom

B. F. L. Smith

B. F. L. Smith publishes mostly in Biomaterials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, on topics such as Clay minerals and soil interactions, Soil and Unsaturated Flow and Iron oxide chemistry and applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,609,064
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#182,935
of 367,258
Works
30
Citations
841
Citations per work
28.0
h-index
13
i10-index 17Top 52% in Biomaterials
B. F. L. Smith

What does B. F. L. Smith research?

B. F. L. Smith's work is mostly in Materials Science (24%), Engineering (17%), Energy (9%).

Physical Sciences: 19 works · 64.5% of their workMaterials Science: 7 works · 23.7% of their workBiomaterials: 7 works · 23.7% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 17.1% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 works · 17.1% of their workEnergy: 3 works · 9.2% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 works · 9.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 9.2% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 works · 5.3% of their workWater Science and Technology: 1 works · 3.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 5.3% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 35.5% of their workTHEIR WORKB. F. L. Smith30works
Physical Sciences65%

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 Science723.7%
    2. Engineering517.1%
    3. Energy39.2%
    4. Environmental Science39.2%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences25.3%
  2. Everything else1135.5%
  1. 1Biomaterials24% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment9% of their works
  4. 4Geochemistry and Petrology5% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Water Science and Technology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe B. F. L. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Clay Nanotubes, Halloysite, Soil Hydraulic Properties, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Hematite, Photoelectrodes, Climate Change and Machine Learning.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Clay Nanotubes181 topic
  2. Halloysite181 topic
  3. Soil Hydraulic Properties101 topic
  4. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics101 topic
  5. Hematite71 topic
  6. Photoelectrodes71 topic
  7. Climate Change42 topics
  8. Machine Learning31 topic
  9. Mineral Prospectivity31 topic
  10. Geochronology21 topic
  11. Groundwater21 topic
  12. Isotopes21 topic
  13. Manganese Oxides21 topic
  14. Nitrogen Cycle21 topic
  15. Rare Earth Elements21 topic
  16. Soil Carbon Sequestration21 topic
  17. Zircon21 topic

Where does B. F. L. Smith work?

B. F. L. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Macaulay Development Trust, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does B. F. L. Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 841 citations for B. F. L. Smith, an h-index of 13, ranking #2,609,064 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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