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Researcher · Golder Associates (Canada) · Canada

Ken Been

Ken Been publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Ocean Engineering, on topics such as Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization.

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World rank
#899,451
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#30,888
of 183,316
Works
66
Citations
4.8k
Citations per work
73.2
h-index
21
i10-index 29Top 12% in Civil and Structural Engineering
Ken Been

What does Ken Been research?

Ken Been's work is mostly in Engineering (76%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%).

Physical Sciences: 56 works · 84.3% of their workEngineering: 50 works · 76.2% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 38 works · 57.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 5 works · 7.0% of their workOcean Engineering: 5 works · 7.0% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 works · 2.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 2.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 8.1% of their workAtmospheric Science: 5 works · 8.1% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 15.7% of their workTHEIR WORKKen Been66works
Physical Sciences84%

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. Engineering5076.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences58.1%
  2. Everything else1015.7%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering57% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  3. 3Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality3% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Been's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Liquefaction Resistance, Particle Shape Effects, Seismic, Tunnel, Geosynthetics, Soil Reinforcement, Soil Hydraulic Properties and Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.

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. Liquefaction Resistance331 topic
  2. Particle Shape Effects331 topic
  3. Seismic281 topic
  4. Tunnel281 topic
  5. Geosynthetics211 topic
  6. Soil Reinforcement211 topic
  7. Soil Hydraulic Properties121 topic
  8. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics121 topic
  9. Arctic91 topic
  10. Sea Ice91 topic
  11. Hydraulic Fracturing71 topic
  12. Shale Gas Reservoirs71 topic
  13. Oil and Gas61 topic
  14. Subsea61 topic
  15. Slope Stability Analysis51 topic
  16. Spatial Variability51 topic

Where does Ken Been work?

Ken Been's main affiliation in the publication record is Golder Associates (Canada), Canada.

How many publications and citations does Ken Been have?

OpenAlex counts 66 works and 4,833 citations for Ken Been, an h-index of 21, ranking #899,451 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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