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Matthew E. Benfer

Matthew E. Benfer publishes mostly in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Ocean Engineering and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Fire dynamics and safety research, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics and Fire effects on ecosystems.

ORCID 0000-0003-4866-4431 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,307,192
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#934,446
of 1,627,098
Works
19
Citations
173
Citations per work
9.1
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 63% in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Matthew E. Benfer

What does Matthew E. Benfer research?

Matthew E. Benfer's work is mostly in Engineering (66%), Environmental Science (10%), Materials Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 82.9% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 65.8% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 7 works · 36.6% of their workOcean Engineering: 3 works · 14.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 7.3% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 works · 7.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 9.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 9.8% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 7.3% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 7.3% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 17.1% of their workTHEIR WORKMatthew E. Benfer19works
Physical Sciences83%

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. Engineering1365.8%
    2. Environmental Science29.8%
    3. Materials Science17.3%
  2. Everything else317.1%
  1. 1Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality37% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change10% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Civil and Structural Engineering7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Matthew E. Benfer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smoke Control, Tunnel Fires, Evacuation, Pedestrian Dynamics, Climate Change, Forest Fires, Computer Vision and Concrete.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Smoke Control121 topic
  2. Tunnel Fires121 topic
  3. Evacuation61 topic
  4. Pedestrian Dynamics61 topic
  5. Climate Change41 topic
  6. Forest Fires41 topic
  7. Computer Vision31 topic
  8. Concrete31 topic
  9. Detonation Propulsion31 topic
  10. Fire Detection31 topic
  11. High-Temperature31 topic
  12. Pulse Detonation Engines31 topic
  13. Child Injury21 topic
  14. Unintentional Injuries21 topic
  15. Biodeterioration11 topic
  16. Geomycology11 topic

Where does Matthew E. Benfer work?

Matthew E. Benfer's main affiliation in the publication record is Jensen Hughes (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Matthew E. Benfer have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 173 citations for Matthew E. Benfer, an h-index of 6, ranking #3,307,192 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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