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Researcher · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · Switzerland

Ian F. C. Smith

Ian F. C. Smith publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Building and Construction, on topics such as Structural Health Monitoring Techniques, Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis and Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring.

ORCID 0000-0002-5033-2113 OpenAlex
World rank
#645,736
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#11,582
of 80,918
Works
666
Citations
12k
Citations per work
17.3
h-index
55
i10-index 235Top 0.5% in Civil and Structural Engineering
Ian F. C. Smith

What does Ian F. C. Smith research?

Ian F. C. Smith's work is mostly in Engineering (58%), Computer Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 419 works · 62.9% of their workEngineering: 384 works · 57.7% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 216 works · 32.5% of their workMechanical Engineering: 60 works · 9.0% of their workBuilding and Construction: 57 works · 8.5% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 28 works · 4.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 23 works · 3.5% of their workComputer Science: 35 works · 5.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 35 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 247 works · 37.1% of their workTHEIR WORKIan F. C. Smith666works
Physical Sciences63%

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. Engineering38457.7%
    2. Computer Science355.2%
  2. Everything else24737.1%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering32% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering9% of their works
  3. 3Building and Construction8% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  5. 5Control and Systems Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian F. C. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Vibration-based Damage Identification, Wireless Sensors, Mechanical Properties, Footbridges, Vibration Serviceability, Deep Learning, Pavement and Form-Finding.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Vibration-based Damage Identification1461 topic
  2. Wireless Sensors1461 topic
  3. Mechanical Properties1282 topics
  4. Footbridges981 topic
  5. Vibration Serviceability981 topic
  6. Deep Learning781 topic
  7. Pavement781 topic
  8. Form-Finding701 topic
  9. Tensegrity701 topic
  10. FTIR Analysis581 topic
  11. Wood Chemistry581 topic
  12. BIM521 topic
  13. Construction521 topic
  14. Digital Fabrication451 topic
  15. Parametricism451 topic
  16. Sensitivity Analysis431 topic
  17. Uncertainty Quantification431 topic

Where does Ian F. C. Smith work?

Ian F. C. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Ian F. C. Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 666 works and 11,522 citations for Ian F. C. Smith, an h-index of 55, ranking #645,736 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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