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Researcher · Materials Technology (United Kingdom) · United Kingdom

Derek K. Skinner

Derek K. Skinner publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques, Semiconductor materials and devices and Ion-surface interactions and analysis.

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World rank
#4,932,939
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#298,386
of 367,258
Works
18
Citations
314
Citations per work
17.4
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 59% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Derek K. Skinner

What does Derek K. Skinner research?

Derek K. Skinner's work is mostly in Engineering (49%), Materials Science (25%), Physics and Astronomy (12%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 86.3% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 49.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 works · 31.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 2 works · 11.8% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 5.9% of their workMaterials Science: 5 works · 25.4% of their workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 3 works · 17.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 7.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 works · 11.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 11.8% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 13.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDerek K. Skinner18works
Physical Sciences86%

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. Engineering949.1%
    2. Materials Science525.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy211.8%
  2. Everything else213.7%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering31% of their works
  2. 2Surfaces, Coatings and Films18% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics12% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics12% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry8% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek K. Skinner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Atomic Layer Deposition, High-k Dielectrics, Failure Analysis, Integrated Circuits, Ion Beam and Surface Analysis.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Scanning Electron Microscopy91 topic
  2. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy91 topic
  3. Atomic Layer Deposition81 topic
  4. High-k Dielectrics81 topic
  5. Failure Analysis51 topic
  6. Integrated Circuits51 topic
  7. Ion Beam51 topic
  8. Surface Analysis51 topic
  9. Metal-Semiconductor Contacts31 topic
  10. Schottky Barrier31 topic
  11. Electron Sources11 topic
  12. Fluorescent Proteins11 topic
  13. Lipid Rafts11 topic
  14. Membrane Lipids11 topic
  15. Photocathodes11 topic
  16. Super-Resolution Imaging11 topic

Where does Derek K. Skinner work?

Derek K. Skinner's main affiliation in the publication record is Materials Technology (United Kingdom), United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Derek K. Skinner have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 314 citations for Derek K. Skinner, an h-index of 9, ranking #4,932,939 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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