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Researcher · Federal Railroad Administration · United States

Donald Plotkin

Donald Plotkin publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Transport and Economic Policies and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,808,313
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,434,148
of 1,627,098
Works
15
Citations
50
Citations per work
3.3
h-index
3
i10-index 1Top 94% in Mechanical Engineering
Donald Plotkin

What does Donald Plotkin research?

Donald Plotkin's work is mostly in Engineering (74%), Business, Management and Accounting (21%).

Physical Sciences: 11 works · 73.8% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 73.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 5 works · 31.6% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 works · 23.7% of their workGeneral Engineering: 1 works · 7.9% of their workBuilding and Construction: 1 works · 5.3% of their workOcean Engineering: 1 works · 5.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 21.1% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 works · 21.1% of their workStrategy and Management: 3 works · 21.1% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 5.1% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald Plotkin15works
Physical Sciences74%Social Sciences21%

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. Engineering1173.8%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting321.1%
  3. Everything else15.1%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering32% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering24% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management21% of their works
  4. 4General Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Building and Construction5% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald Plotkin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ground Vibration, Railway Dynamics, Competition, Railway Deregulation, Analysis, Sustainability, Economic Analysis and Engineering.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Ground Vibration121 topic
  2. Railway Dynamics121 topic
  3. Competition81 topic
  4. Railway Deregulation81 topic
  5. Analysis62 topics
  6. Sustainability42 topics
  7. Economic Analysis32 topics
  8. Engineering31 topic
  9. Environmental Impact32 topics
  10. Research31 topic
  11. Seismic31 topic
  12. Tunnel31 topic
  13. BIM21 topic
  14. Construction21 topic
  15. Crash Tests21 topic
  16. Finite Element Simulation21 topic
  17. Offshore Decommissioning21 topic
  18. Ship Recycling21 topic
  19. Agriculture11 topic
  20. Logistics11 topic

Where does Donald Plotkin work?

Donald Plotkin's main affiliation in the publication record is Federal Railroad Administration, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald Plotkin have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 50 citations for Donald Plotkin, an h-index of 3, ranking #5,808,313 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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