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Brian Rothwell

Brian Rothwell publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis, Fatigue and fracture mechanics and Offshore Engineering and Technologies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,782,792
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#118,395
of 183,316
Works
56
Citations
501
Citations per work
8.9
h-index
11
i10-index 13Top 40% in Mechanical Engineering
Brian Rothwell

What does Brian Rothwell research?

Brian Rothwell's work is mostly in Engineering (58%), Decision Sciences (8%), Environmental Science (6%).

Physical Sciences: 36 works · 64.6% of their workEngineering: 33 works · 58.5% of their workMechanical Engineering: 17 works · 30.6% of their workOcean Engineering: 6 works · 11.6% of their workMechanics of Materials: 6 works · 10.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 6.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 27.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 8.2% of their workDecision Sciences: 5 works · 8.2% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 5 works · 8.2% of their workTHEIR WORKBrian Rothwell56works
Physical Sciences65%Social Sciences8%

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. Engineering3358.5%
    2. Environmental Science36.1%
  2. Everything else1527.2%
    1. Decision Sciences58.2%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering31% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials11% of their works
  4. 4Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty8% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian Rothwell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Natural Gas, Pipeline, Corrosion, Risk Analysis, Fatigue Crack Closure, Fracture Toughness Testing, Oil and Gas and Subsea.

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. Natural Gas362 topics
  2. Pipeline332 topics
  3. Corrosion271 topic
  4. Risk Analysis271 topic
  5. Fatigue Crack Closure141 topic
  6. Fracture Toughness Testing141 topic
  7. Oil and Gas121 topic
  8. Subsea121 topic
  9. Bayesian Networks111 topic
  10. Fault Tree Analysis111 topic
  11. Emissions91 topic
  12. Methane91 topic
  13. CFD Simulation81 topic
  14. Urban Microclimate81 topic
  15. Detonation Propulsion61 topic
  16. Pulse Detonation Engines61 topic
  17. Seismic61 topic
  18. Tunnel61 topic

Where does Brian Rothwell work?

Brian Rothwell's main affiliation in the publication record is TransCanada (Canada), Canada.

How many publications and citations does Brian Rothwell have?

OpenAlex counts 56 works and 501 citations for Brian Rothwell, an h-index of 11, ranking #3,782,792 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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