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Researcher · Kinectrics (Canada) · Canada

Gordon K. Shek

Gordon K. Shek publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, on topics such as Nuclear Materials and Properties, Fusion materials and technologies and Nuclear reactor physics and engineering.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,554,828
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#112,236
of 183,316
Works
17
Citations
58
Citations per work
3.4
h-index
4
i10-index 3Top 96% in Materials Chemistry
Gordon K. Shek

What does Gordon K. Shek research?

Gordon K. Shek's work is mostly in Materials Science (61%), Engineering (39%).

Physical Sciences: 17 works · 100.1% of their workMaterials Science: 10 works · 60.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 10 works · 60.8% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 39.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 4 works · 23.5% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 works · 11.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 0 works · 2.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 0 works · 2.0% of their workTHEIR WORKGordon K. Shek17works
Physical Sciences100%

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. Materials Science1060.8%
    2. Engineering739.3%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry61% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering24% of their works
  3. 3Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality12% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials2% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gordon K. Shek's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accident Tolerant Fuels, Fuel Cladding, fusion materials, radiation damage, Molten Salt, Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear Fuel and Radiation Protection.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 6 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 12 words, with their numbers
  1. Accident Tolerant Fuels171 topic
  2. Fuel Cladding171 topic
  3. fusion materials141 topic
  4. radiation damage141 topic
  5. Molten Salt121 topic
  6. Nuclear Reactor121 topic
  7. Nuclear Fuel61 topic
  8. Radiation Protection61 topic
  9. Fatigue Crack Closure11 topic
  10. Fracture Toughness Testing11 topic
  11. High-Temperature Alloys11 topic
  12. Superalloys11 topic

Where does Gordon K. Shek work?

Gordon K. Shek's main affiliation in the publication record is Kinectrics (Canada), Canada.

How many publications and citations does Gordon K. Shek have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 58 citations for Gordon K. Shek, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,554,828 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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