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Researcher · Illinois Clean Coal Institute · United States

Francois Botha

Francois Botha publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Building and Construction and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, on topics such as Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production, Concrete and Cement Materials Research and Industrial Gas Emission Control.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,996,089
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,574,350
of 1,627,098
Works
24
Citations
130
Citations per work
5.4
h-index
7
i10-index 5Top 66% in Mechanical Engineering
Francois Botha

What does Francois Botha research?

Francois Botha's work is mostly in Engineering (24%), Medicine (6%), Environmental Science (4%).

Everything else: 15 works · 63.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 7 works · 30.9% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 23.7% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 10.9% of their workBuilding and Construction: 2 works · 7.3% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 works · 5.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 3.6% of their workWater Science and Technology: 1 works · 3.6% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 3.6% of their workGeneral Materials Science: 1 works · 3.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 5.5% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 5.5% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancois Botha24works
Physical Sciences31%Health Sciences6%

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. Everything else1563.6%
    1. Engineering623.7%
    2. Environmental Science13.6%
    3. Materials Science13.6%
    1. Medicine15.5%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering11% of their works
  2. 2Building and Construction7% of their works
  3. 3Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine6% of their works
  4. 4Civil and Structural Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology4% of their works
  6. 6General Materials Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francois Botha's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ceramic Materials, Recycling, Utilization, Waste Materials, Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics, Cardiomyopathies, Cementitious Materials and Concrete Properties.

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. Ceramic Materials52 topics
  2. Recycling52 topics
  3. Utilization31 topic
  4. Waste Materials31 topic
  5. Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics21 topic
  6. Cardiomyopathies21 topic
  7. Cementitious Materials21 topic
  8. Concrete Properties21 topic
  9. Flue Gas Desulfurization21 topic
  10. Foundry Waste21 topic
  11. Genetic Mutations21 topic
  12. Geopolymer21 topic
  13. Hydrogen Sulfide Adsorption21 topic
  14. Polymer Composite Materials21 topic
  15. Sintering21 topic
  16. Spark Plasma Sintering21 topic
  17. Neurodevelopmental Disorders11 topic
  18. Williams Syndrome11 topic

Where does Francois Botha work?

Francois Botha's main affiliation in the publication record is Illinois Clean Coal Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Francois Botha have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 130 citations for Francois Botha, an h-index of 7, ranking #6,996,089 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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