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Derek Gaston

Derek Gaston publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Nuclear reactor physics and engineering, Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics and Nuclear Materials and Properties.

World rank
#333,057
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#122,687
of 358,040
Works
29
Citations
67
Citations per work
2.3

What does Derek Gaston research?

Aerospace Engineering: 19.0%Materials Chemistry: 14.3%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 9.5%Computational Mechanics: 9.5%other fields: 47.7%19%top field
Aerospace Engineering19.0%Materials Chemistry14.3%Nuclear and High Energy Physics9.5%Computational Mechanics9.5%other fields47.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Aerospace Engineering19% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry14% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Analytical Chemistry5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek Gaston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molten Salt, Nuclear Reactor, Accident Tolerant Fuels, Finite Element Methods, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Fuel Cladding, Aerospace Applications and Aluminium Alloys.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Molten Salt31 topic
  2. Nuclear Reactor31 topic
  3. Accident Tolerant Fuels21 topic
  4. Finite Element Methods21 topic
  5. Fluid-Structure Interaction21 topic
  6. Fuel Cladding21 topic
  7. Aerospace Applications11 topic
  8. Aluminium Alloys11 topic
  9. Asphaltenes11 topic
  10. Distributed Systems11 topic
  11. Grid Computing11 topic
  12. Ice Nucleation11 topic
  13. Matrix Computations11 topic
  14. Melting11 topic
  15. Numerical Linear Algebra11 topic
  16. Petroleum11 topic

Where does Derek Gaston work?

Derek Gaston's main affiliation in the publication record is Idaho National Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Derek Gaston have?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 67 citations for Derek Gaston, ranking #333,057 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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