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Researcher · Imperial College London · United Kingdom

Hugh A. Spikes

Hugh A. Spikes publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Lubricants and Their Additives, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions and Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0001-7250-8995 OpenAlex
World rank
#7,993
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#518
of 367,258
Works
381
Citations
20k
Citations per work
52.3
h-index
76
i10-index 280Top 0.1% in Mechanical Engineering
Hugh A. Spikes

What does Hugh A. Spikes research?

Hugh A. Spikes's work is mostly in Engineering (79%), Physics and Astronomy (6%), Materials Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 345 works · 90.5% of their workEngineering: 301 works · 78.9% of their workMechanical Engineering: 187 works · 49.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 108 works · 28.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 works · 1.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 21 works · 5.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 21 works · 5.5% of their workMaterials Science: 18 works · 4.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 18 works · 4.7% of their workChemical Engineering: 5 works · 1.4% of their workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 5 works · 1.4% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 9.5% of their workTHEIR WORKHugh A. Spikes381works
Physical Sciences90%

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. Engineering30178.9%
    2. Physics and Astronomy215.5%
    3. Materials Science184.7%
    4. Chemical Engineering51.4%
  2. Everything else369.5%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering49% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials28% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes1% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hugh A. Spikes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Friction, Tribological Performance, Lubricants, Tribology, Adhesion, Gecko, Gear Dynamics and Mesh Stiffness.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Friction3632 topics
  2. Tribological Performance2652 topics
  3. Lubricants1921 topic
  4. Tribology1921 topic
  5. Adhesion1711 topic
  6. Gecko1711 topic
  7. Gear Dynamics1671 topic
  8. Mesh Stiffness1671 topic
  9. Friction Reduction1631 topic
  10. Laser Surface Texturing1631 topic
  11. Mechanical Properties1262 topics
  12. Nanocomposites1262 topics
  13. Polymer Tribology1021 topic
  14. Wear Behavior1021 topic
  15. Atomic Force Microscopy571 topic
  16. Force Spectroscopy571 topic
  17. Nanoindentation241 topic
  18. Thin Films241 topic
  19. Nanodiamonds171 topic
  20. Quantum Sensing171 topic

Where does Hugh A. Spikes work?

Hugh A. Spikes's main affiliation in the publication record is Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Hugh A. Spikes have?

OpenAlex counts 381 works and 19,918 citations for Hugh A. Spikes, an h-index of 76, ranking #7,993 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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