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Researcher · Bournemouth University · United Kingdom

Ben Thomas

Ben Thomas publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Polymers and Plastics, on topics such as Tribology and Wear Analysis, Lubricants and Their Additives and Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation.

ORCID 0000-0002-0829-0431 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,882,271
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#250,032
of 367,258
Works
31
Citations
545
Citations per work
17.6
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 59% in Mechanical Engineering
Ben Thomas

What does Ben Thomas research?

Ben Thomas's work is mostly in Engineering (63%), Materials Science (14%).

Physical Sciences: 24 works · 77.0% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 63.2% of their workMechanical Engineering: 10 works · 31.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 6 works · 20.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 6.9% of their workOcean Engineering: 1 works · 4.6% of their workMaterials Science: 4 works · 13.8% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 3 works · 9.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 23.0% of their workTHEIR WORKBen Thomas31works
Physical Sciences77%

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. Engineering2063.2%
    2. Materials Science413.8%
  2. Everything else723.0%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering31% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials21% of their works
  3. 3Polymers and Plastics9% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Thomas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Polymer Tribology, Wear Behavior, Lubricants, Renewable Energy, Tribology, Failure Analysis, Finite Element Analysis and Fracture Mechanisms.

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. Polymer Tribology101 topic
  2. Wear Behavior101 topic
  3. Lubricants71 topic
  4. Renewable Energy72 topics
  5. Tribology71 topic
  6. Failure Analysis51 topic
  7. Finite Element Analysis51 topic
  8. Fracture Mechanisms51 topic
  9. Threaded Fasteners51 topic
  10. Polymer Foaming41 topic
  11. Supercritical Carbon Dioxide41 topic
  12. Weibull Distribution41 topic
  13. Wind Turbine Wakes41 topic
  14. Finite Element Simulation31 topic
  15. Fretting Wear31 topic
  16. Power Take-Off31 topic
  17. Wave Energy31 topic

Where does Ben Thomas work?

Ben Thomas's main affiliation in the publication record is Bournemouth University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ben Thomas have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 545 citations for Ben Thomas, an h-index of 8, ranking #3,882,271 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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