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Girard A. Simons

Girard A. Simons publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes, Industrial Gas Emission Control and Iron and Steelmaking Processes.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,063,156
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#345,186
of 1,627,098
Works
50
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
22.6
h-index
19
i10-index 24Top 16% in Mechanical Engineering
Girard A. Simons

What does Girard A. Simons research?

Girard A. Simons's work is mostly in Engineering (55%), Materials Science (6%).

Physical Sciences: 30 works · 61.0% of their workEngineering: 28 works · 55.1% of their workMechanical Engineering: 7 works · 14.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 7 works · 13.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 6 works · 11.8% of their workOcean Engineering: 4 works · 8.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 6.6% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 5.9% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 39.0% of their workTHEIR WORKGirard A. Simons50works
Physical Sciences61%

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. Engineering2855.1%
    2. Materials Science35.9%
  2. Everything else2039.0%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering15% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering9% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Girard A. Simons's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biomass, Pyrolysis, Flue Gas Desulfurization, Hydrogen Sulfide Adsorption, CO2 Sequestration, Coalbed Methane, Iron Oxides and Reduction Kinetics.

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. Biomass101 topic
  2. Pyrolysis101 topic
  3. Flue Gas Desulfurization81 topic
  4. Hydrogen Sulfide Adsorption81 topic
  5. CO2 Sequestration71 topic
  6. Coalbed Methane71 topic
  7. Iron Oxides71 topic
  8. Reduction Kinetics71 topic
  9. Catalysis61 topic
  10. Nanoparticles61 topic
  11. Boltzmann Equation51 topic
  12. Detonation Propulsion51 topic
  13. High-Order Schemes51 topic
  14. Kinetic Theory51 topic
  15. Pulse Detonation Engines51 topic
  16. Turbulence Modeling51 topic

Where does Girard A. Simons work?

Girard A. Simons's main affiliation in the publication record is Physical Sciences (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Girard A. Simons have?

OpenAlex counts 50 works and 1,129 citations for Girard A. Simons, an h-index of 19, ranking #1,063,156 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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