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Researcher · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · United States

John A. Thornton

John A. Thornton publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, on topics such as Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies and Metal and Thin Film Mechanics.

ORCID 0000-0001-9976-9714 OpenAlex
World rank
#15,912
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,600
of 358,040
Works
54
Citations
620
Citations per work
11.5

What does John A. Thornton research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 19.1%Mechanics of Materials: 7.4%Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 5.9%Aerospace Engineering: 5.9%other fields: 61.7%19%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering19.1%Mechanics of Materials7.4%Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine5.9%Aerospace Engineering5.9%other fields61.7%

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

  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering19% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials7% of their works
  3. 3Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine6% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4% of their works
  6. 6Radiation4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John A. Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanoindentation, Plasma Etching, Semiconductor Industry, Silicon, Solar Cells, Thin Films, Acoustic Wave Biosensors and Anesthesia.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanoindentation31 topic
  2. Plasma Etching31 topic
  3. Semiconductor Industry31 topic
  4. Silicon31 topic
  5. Solar Cells31 topic
  6. Thin Films31 topic
  7. Acoustic Wave Biosensors21 topic
  8. Anesthesia21 topic
  9. Atomic Layer Deposition21 topic
  10. High-k Dielectrics21 topic
  11. Ion Beam21 topic
  12. Neutron Imaging21 topic
  13. Sedation21 topic
  14. Small-Angle Scattering21 topic
  15. Surface Analysis21 topic
  16. Thin Film Resonators21 topic

Where does John A. Thornton work?

John A. Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States.

How many publications and citations does John A. Thornton have?

Science Explorer counts 54 works and 620 citations for John A. Thornton, ranking #15,912 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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