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Laurence W. McKeen

Laurence W. McKeen publishes mostly in Polymers and Plastics, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Synthesis and properties of polymers, Tribology and Wear Analysis and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties.

World rank
#1,060,729
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#3,575
of 5,570
Works
114
Citations
59
Citations per work
0.5

What does Laurence W. McKeen research?

Polymers and Plastics: 32.6%Mechanics of Materials: 14.1%Mechanical Engineering: 10.4%Materials Chemistry: 8.9%other fields: 34.0%33%top field
Polymers and Plastics32.6%Mechanics of Materials14.1%Mechanical Engineering10.4%Materials Chemistry8.9%other fields34.0%

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

  1. 1Polymers and Plastics33% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials14% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry9% of their works
  5. 5Biomaterials7% of their works
  6. 6General Materials Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Laurence W. McKeen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanocomposites, Thermal Stability, Nanoparticles, Mechanical Properties, Elemental Sulfur, Polyimides, Polymer Tribology and Wear Behavior.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanocomposites324 topics
  2. Thermal Stability232 topics
  3. Nanoparticles213 topics
  4. Mechanical Properties182 topics
  5. Elemental Sulfur171 topic
  6. Polyimides171 topic
  7. Polymer Tribology101 topic
  8. Wear Behavior101 topic
  9. Biodegradable Polymers91 topic
  10. Polylactic Acid91 topic
  11. Polymer Blends81 topic
  12. Polymer Crystallization81 topic
  13. Layered Silicate71 topic
  14. Polymer71 topic
  15. Hybrid Materials61 topic
  16. Membrane Gas Separation61 topic
  17. Mixed Matrix Membranes61 topic
  18. Plasticizers61 topic
  19. Poly(vinyl chloride)61 topic
  20. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes61 topic

Where does Laurence W. McKeen work?

Laurence W. McKeen's main affiliation in the publication record is National Bioproducts Institute (South Africa), South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Laurence W. McKeen have?

Science Explorer counts 114 works and 59 citations for Laurence W. McKeen, ranking #1,060,729 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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