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Researcher · United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command · United States

Brian A. McDonald

Brian A. McDonald publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Energetic Materials and Combustion, Rocket and propulsion systems research and Thermal and Kinetic Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-5390-5132 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,126,861
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#640,971
of 1,627,098
Works
28
Citations
215
Citations per work
7.7
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 38% in Aerospace Engineering
Brian A. McDonald

What does Brian A. McDonald research?

Brian A. McDonald's work is mostly in Engineering (69%), Materials Science (12%), Chemical Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 23 works · 83.0% of their workEngineering: 19 works · 68.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 10 works · 35.7% of their workMechanics of Materials: 8 works · 28.6% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 4.3% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 11.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 8.6% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 1 works · 2.9% of their workChemical Engineering: 1 works · 2.9% of their workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 17.0% of their workTHEIR WORKBrian A. McDonald28works
Physical Sciences83%

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. Engineering1968.6%
    2. Materials Science311.5%
    3. Chemical Engineering12.9%
  2. Everything else517.0%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering36% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials29% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry9% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Polymers and Plastics3% of their works
  6. 6Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian A. McDonald's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Thermal Decomposition, Energetic Salts, ReaxFF, Hybrid Rocket Propulsion, Regression Rate Behavior, Isoconversional Methods, Kinetic Analysis and Autonomous Aerial Refueling.

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. Thermal Decomposition242 topics
  2. Energetic Salts201 topic
  3. ReaxFF201 topic
  4. Hybrid Rocket Propulsion191 topic
  5. Regression Rate Behavior191 topic
  6. Isoconversional Methods41 topic
  7. Kinetic Analysis41 topic
  8. Autonomous Aerial Refueling31 topic
  9. Detonation Propulsion31 topic
  10. Pulse Detonation Engines31 topic
  11. Vision-Based Sensor31 topic
  12. Chemical Kinetics21 topic
  13. Combustion21 topic
  14. Multivariate Calibration21 topic
  15. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy21 topic
  16. Infrared Spectroscopy11 topic
  17. Raman Spectroscopy11 topic

Where does Brian A. McDonald work?

Brian A. McDonald's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brian A. McDonald have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 215 citations for Brian A. McDonald, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,126,861 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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