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Researcher · Virginia Tech · United States

Garth L. Wilkes

Garth L. Wilkes publishes mostly in Polymers and Plastics, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties, Polymer crystallization and properties and Synthesis and properties of polymers.

World rank
#78,066
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#34,857
of 358,040
Works
95
Citations
772
Citations per work
8.1

What does Garth L. Wilkes research?

Polymers and Plastics: 44.8%Mechanical Engineering: 8.8%Materials Chemistry: 8.0%Biomaterials: 6.4%other fields: 32.0%45%top field
Polymers and Plastics44.8%Mechanical Engineering8.8%Materials Chemistry8.0%Biomaterials6.4%other fields32.0%

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

  1. 1Polymers and Plastics45% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering9% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry8% of their works
  4. 4Biomaterials6% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials5% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Garth L. Wilkes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanoparticles, Nanocomposites, Mechanical Properties, Layered Silicate, Polymer, Polymer Blends, Polymer Crystallization and Biodegradable Polymers.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanoparticles383 topics
  2. Nanocomposites334 topics
  3. Mechanical Properties243 topics
  4. Layered Silicate191 topic
  5. Polymer191 topic
  6. Polymer Blends131 topic
  7. Polymer Crystallization131 topic
  8. Biodegradable Polymers122 topics
  9. Elemental Sulfur101 topic
  10. Polyimides101 topic
  11. Polymer Composites102 topics
  12. Epoxy Resins81 topic
  13. Polybenzoxazines81 topic
  14. Self-Healing71 topic
  15. Shape Memory Polymers71 topic
  16. Hybrid Materials61 topic
  17. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes61 topic
  18. Polyhydroxyalkanoates51 topic
  19. Polylactic Acid51 topic
  20. Polymer Tribology31 topic
  21. Wear Behavior31 topic

Where does Garth L. Wilkes work?

Garth L. Wilkes's main affiliation in the publication record is Virginia Tech, United States.

How many publications and citations does Garth L. Wilkes have?

Science Explorer counts 95 works and 772 citations for Garth L. Wilkes, ranking #78,066 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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