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Researcher · Council for Geoscience · South Africa

H.A.D. Kirsten

H.A.D. Kirsten publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, on topics such as Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis, Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics.

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World rank
#5,306,322
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#22,827
of 29,826
Works
25
Citations
215
Citations per work
8.6
h-index
8
i10-index 5Top 56% in Civil and Structural Engineering
H.A.D. Kirsten

What does H.A.D. Kirsten research?

H.A.D. Kirsten's work is mostly in Engineering (83%).

Physical Sciences: 21 works · 83.1% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 83.1% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 12 works · 49.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 10.8% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 works · 9.2% of their workBuilding and Construction: 2 works · 6.2% of their workMechanical Engineering: 1 works · 4.6% of their workOcean Engineering: 1 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 16.9% of their workTHEIR WORKH.A.D. Kirsten25works
Physical Sciences83%

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. Engineering2183.1%
  2. Everything else416.9%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering49% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials11% of their works
  3. 3Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality9% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction6% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe H.A.D. Kirsten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Soil Properties, Finite Element Analysis, Slope Stability Analysis, Spatial Variability, Performance Prediction, Rock Mechanics, Seismic and TBM.

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. Soil Properties92 topics
  2. Finite Element Analysis82 topics
  3. Slope Stability Analysis61 topic
  4. Spatial Variability61 topic
  5. Performance Prediction51 topic
  6. Rock Mechanics51 topic
  7. Seismic51 topic
  8. TBM51 topic
  9. Tunnel51 topic
  10. Wave Propagation51 topic
  11. Environmental Impacts31 topic
  12. Geosynthetics31 topic
  13. Geotechnical Engineering31 topic
  14. Road Construction31 topic
  15. Soil Reinforcement31 topic
  16. Tailings Dams31 topic
  17. Construction21 topic
  18. Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites21 topic

Where does H.A.D. Kirsten work?

H.A.D. Kirsten's main affiliation in the publication record is Council for Geoscience, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does H.A.D. Kirsten have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 215 citations for H.A.D. Kirsten, an h-index of 8, ranking #5,306,322 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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