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Researcher · University of Bristol · United Kingdom

Ben Hicks

Ben Hicks publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Management of Technology and Innovation, on topics such as Manufacturing Process and Optimization, Design Education and Practice and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies.

ORCID 0000-0001-8294-4694 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,450,019
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#173,801
of 367,258
Works
444
Citations
7k
Citations per work
15.8
h-index
32
i10-index 93Top 3.7% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Ben Hicks

What does Ben Hicks research?

Ben Hicks's work is mostly in Engineering (41%), Business, Management and Accounting (5%), Computer Science (4%).

Everything else: 219 works · 49.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 202 works · 45.6% of their workEngineering: 183 works · 41.2% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 78 works · 17.6% of their workMechanical Engineering: 67 works · 15.0% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 20 works · 4.5% of their workBuilding and Construction: 18 works · 4.1% of their workComputer Science: 20 works · 4.4% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 20 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 5.0% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 22 works · 5.0% of their workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 22 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKBen Hicks444works
Physical Sciences46%Social Sciences5%

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. Everything else21949.4%
    1. Engineering18341.2%
    2. Computer Science204.4%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting225.0%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering18% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Management of Technology and Innovation5% of their works
  4. 4Automotive Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Human-Computer Interaction4% of their works
  6. 6Building and Construction4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Hicks's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Assembly Planning, Design for Manufacture, Design Thinking, Engineering Design, Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.

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. Assembly Planning1271 topic
  2. Design for Manufacture1271 topic
  3. Design Thinking1101 topic
  4. Engineering Design1101 topic
  5. Sustainability1093 topics
  6. Supply Chain Management742 topics
  7. 3D Printing431 topic
  8. Additive Manufacturing431 topic
  9. Mass Customization431 topic
  10. Product Modularity431 topic
  11. BIM351 topic
  12. Construction351 topic
  13. Digital Twin311 topic
  14. Smart Manufacturing311 topic
  15. Fiber Networks251 topic
  16. Paper Mechanics251 topic
  17. Knowledge Sharing171 topic
  18. Virtual Communities171 topic

Where does Ben Hicks work?

Ben Hicks's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ben Hicks have?

OpenAlex counts 444 works and 7,008 citations for Ben Hicks, an h-index of 32, ranking #2,450,019 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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