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Researcher · Heriot-Watt University · United Kingdom

John Macleod Ball

John Macleod Ball publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering, Elasticity and Material Modeling and Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations.

ORCID 0000-0003-2496-2020 OpenAlex
World rank
#148,860
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#13,444
of 367,258
Works
200
Citations
16k
Citations per work
79.4
h-index
50
i10-index 103Top 0.9% in Computational Theory and Mathematics
John Macleod Ball

What does John Macleod Ball research?

John Macleod Ball's work is mostly in Engineering (16%), Computer Science (15%), Mathematics (12%).

Physical Sciences: 104 works · 51.8% of their workEngineering: 31 works · 15.5% of their workMechanics of Materials: 17 works · 8.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 14 works · 7.2% of their workComputer Science: 30 works · 14.9% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 30 works · 14.9% of their workMathematics: 24 works · 11.9% of their workApplied Mathematics: 13 works · 6.4% of their workMathematical Physics: 11 works · 5.5% of their workMaterials Science: 19 works · 9.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 19 works · 9.5% of their workEverything else: 96 works · 48.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Macleod Ball200works
Physical Sciences52%

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. Engineering3115.5%
    2. Computer Science3014.9%
    3. Mathematics2411.9%
    4. Materials Science199.5%
  2. Everything else9648.2%
  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics15% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials8% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Applied Mathematics6% of their works
  6. 6Mathematical Physics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Macleod Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heterogeneous, Multiscale Methods, Arterial Biomechanics, Hyperelastic Modeling, Viscoelasticity, Composite Materials, Boundary Control and Distributed Parameter Systems.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Heterogeneous421 topic
  2. Multiscale Methods421 topic
  3. Arterial Biomechanics341 topic
  4. Hyperelastic Modeling341 topic
  5. Viscoelasticity342 topics
  6. Composite Materials292 topics
  7. Boundary Control211 topic
  8. Distributed Parameter Systems211 topic
  9. Martensitic Transformation211 topic
  10. Shape Memory Alloys211 topic
  11. Heterogeneous Materials161 topic
  12. Multi-Scale161 topic
  13. Fractional Laplacian141 topic
  14. Sobolev Spaces141 topic
  15. Iterative Algorithms131 topic
  16. Mechanics131 topic
  17. Nanomaterials131 topic
  18. Nonlinear Operators131 topic

Where does John Macleod Ball work?

John Macleod Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does John Macleod Ball have?

OpenAlex counts 200 works and 15,879 citations for John Macleod Ball, an h-index of 50, ranking #148,860 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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