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Gunnar Heskestad

Gunnar Heskestad publishes mostly in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Ocean Engineering and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Fire dynamics and safety research, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics and Combustion and Detonation Processes.

World rank
#185,355
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#75,721
of 358,040
Works
19
Citations
213
Citations per work
11.2

What does Gunnar Heskestad research?

Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 47.1%Ocean Engineering: 23.5%Global and Planetary Change: 11.8%Aerospace Engineering: 11.8%other fields: 5.8%47%top field
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality47.1%Ocean Engineering23.5%Global and Planetary Change11.8%Aerospace Engineering11.8%other fields5.8%

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

  1. 1Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality47% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering24% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change12% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gunnar Heskestad's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smoke Control, Tunnel Fires, Evacuation, Pedestrian Dynamics, Fire Detection, Climate Change, Computer Vision and Detonation Propulsion.

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.

All 13 words, with their numbers
  1. Smoke Control61 topic
  2. Tunnel Fires61 topic
  3. Evacuation41 topic
  4. Pedestrian Dynamics41 topic
  5. Fire Detection32 topics
  6. Climate Change21 topic
  7. Computer Vision21 topic
  8. Detonation Propulsion21 topic
  9. Forest Fires21 topic
  10. Pulse Detonation Engines21 topic
  11. Smoke Detection21 topic
  12. Air Pollution11 topic
  13. Environmental Risk Analysis11 topic

Where does Gunnar Heskestad work?

Gunnar Heskestad's main affiliation in the publication record is Cabot (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Gunnar Heskestad have?

Science Explorer counts 19 works and 213 citations for Gunnar Heskestad, ranking #185,355 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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