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Researcher · General Electric (Germany) · Germany

BD Macdonald

BD Macdonald publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Fatigue and fracture mechanics, Non-Destructive Testing Techniques and High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior.

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World rank
#4,790,906
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#245,529
of 364,343
Works
16
Citations
379
Citations per work
23.7
h-index
4
i10-index 2Top 91% in Mechanics of Materials
BD Macdonald

What does BD Macdonald research?

BD Macdonald's work is mostly in Engineering (77%), Materials Science (18%).

Physical Sciences: 15 works · 95.4% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 77.3% of their workMechanics of Materials: 7 works · 40.9% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 works · 18.2% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 15.9% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 works · 2.3% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 18.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 13.6% of their workMetals and Alloys: 1 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 4.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBD Macdonald16works
Physical Sciences95%

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. Engineering1277.3%
    2. Materials Science318.1%
  2. Everything else14.6%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials41% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering16% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry14% of their works
  5. 5Metals and Alloys4% of their works
  6. 6Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe BD Macdonald's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fatigue Crack Closure, Fracture Toughness Testing, Mechanical Properties, Microstructure, Dynamic Deformation, Eddy Current Testing, Gas Pipeline and High Strain Rate.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Fatigue Crack Closure141 topic
  2. Fracture Toughness Testing141 topic
  3. Mechanical Properties52 topics
  4. Microstructure42 topics
  5. Dynamic Deformation31 topic
  6. Eddy Current Testing31 topic
  7. Gas Pipeline31 topic
  8. High Strain Rate31 topic
  9. Material Degradation31 topic
  10. Non-Destructive Evaluation31 topic
  11. Blast Loading21 topic
  12. Concrete21 topic
  13. High-Strength Steels21 topic
  14. High-Temperature21 topic
  15. Martensite Transformation21 topic
  16. Progressive Collapse21 topic
  17. Vibration-based Damage Identification21 topic
  18. Wireless Sensors21 topic

Where does BD Macdonald work?

BD Macdonald's main affiliation in the publication record is General Electric (Germany), Germany.

How many publications and citations does BD Macdonald have?

OpenAlex counts 16 works and 379 citations for BD Macdonald, an h-index of 4, ranking #4,790,906 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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