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Researcher · Central Electricity Generating Board · United Kingdom

Edward W. Thornton

Edward W. Thornton publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science.

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World rank
#3,544,530
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#233,249
of 367,258
Works
29
Citations
488
Citations per work
16.8
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 57% in Materials Chemistry
Edward W. Thornton

What does Edward W. Thornton research?

Edward W. Thornton's work is mostly in Engineering (20%), Chemistry (20%), Materials Science (16%).

Physical Sciences: 20 works · 70.3% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 19.8% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 works · 13.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 6.2% of their workChemistry: 6 works · 19.7% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 4 works · 12.3% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 2 works · 7.4% of their workMaterials Science: 5 works · 16.0% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 5 works · 16.0% of their workChemical Engineering: 4 works · 14.8% of their workCatalysis: 4 works · 14.8% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 29.7% of their workTHEIR WORKEdward W.Thornton29works
Physical Sciences70%

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. Engineering619.8%
    2. Chemistry619.7%
    3. Materials Science516.0%
    4. Chemical Engineering414.8%
  2. Everything else929.7%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry16% of their works
  2. 2Catalysis15% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Organic Chemistry12% of their works
  5. 5Inorganic Chemistry7% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edward W. Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Catalysis, Dehydrogenation, Metal Oxides, Oxidative, Gas Sensors, Metal Oxide, Nanoparticles and Oxidation.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Catalysis264 topics
  2. Dehydrogenation152 topics
  3. Metal Oxides121 topic
  4. Oxidative121 topic
  5. Gas Sensors101 topic
  6. Metal Oxide101 topic
  7. Nanoparticles81 topic
  8. Oxidation81 topic
  9. Hydrogenation62 topics
  10. Asymmetric Catalysis31 topic
  11. Detection31 topic
  12. Electrochemical31 topic
  13. Functional Group Transformations31 topic
  14. Organic Synthesis31 topic
  15. Polymerization31 topic
  16. Transition Metal31 topic
  17. Transition Metal Complexes31 topic
  18. Actinides21 topic
  19. Uranium21 topic

Where does Edward W. Thornton work?

Edward W. Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is Central Electricity Generating Board, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Edward W. Thornton have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 488 citations for Edward W. Thornton, an h-index of 12, ranking #3,544,530 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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