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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

James Maina

James Maina publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Polymers and Plastics, on topics such as Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation, Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures.

ORCID 0000-0002-6927-7265 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,489,196
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#5,078
of 5,570
Works
26
Citations
15
Citations per work
0.6

What does James Maina research?

Civil and Structural Engineering: 71.9%Mechanical Engineering: 12.5%Polymers and Plastics: 9.4%Materials Chemistry: 3.1%other fields: 3.1%72%top field
Civil and Structural Engineering71.9%Mechanical Engineering12.5%Polymers and Plastics9.4%Materials Chemistry3.1%other fields3.1%

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

  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering72% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Polymers and Plastics9% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry3% of their works
  5. 5Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James Maina's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Recycled Materials, Asphalt, Bitumen Modification, Deep Learning, Pavement, Seismic, Sensors and Tunnel.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Recycled Materials92 topics
  2. Asphalt81 topic
  3. Bitumen Modification81 topic
  4. Deep Learning71 topic
  5. Pavement71 topic
  6. Seismic31 topic
  7. Sensors31 topic
  8. Tunnel31 topic
  9. Weigh-in-Motion31 topic
  10. Geotechnical Engineering21 topic
  11. Road Construction21 topic
  12. Fiber Reinforced Concrete11 topic
  13. Geosynthetics11 topic
  14. Mechanical Properties11 topic
  15. Soil Reinforcement11 topic
  16. Vibration-based Damage Identification11 topic
  17. Wireless Sensors11 topic

Where does James Maina work?

James Maina's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does James Maina have?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 15 citations for James Maina, ranking #1,489,196 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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