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Researcher · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · United States

Nicholas A. Dembsey

Nicholas A. Dembsey publishes mostly in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Polymers and Plastics and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Fire dynamics and safety research, Combustion and Detonation Processes and Flame retardant materials and properties.

OpenAlex
World rank
#503,828
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#175,517
of 1,627,098
Works
66
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
20.0
h-index
22
i10-index 32Top 8.9% in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Nicholas A. Dembsey

What does Nicholas A. Dembsey research?

Nicholas A. Dembsey's work is mostly in Engineering (54%), Materials Science (14%), Environmental Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 48 works · 72.5% of their workEngineering: 36 works · 54.4% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 18 works · 28.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 9 works · 13.2% of their workOcean Engineering: 5 works · 7.7% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 works · 5.5% of their workMaterials Science: 9 works · 14.3% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 9 works · 14.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 3.8% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 27.5% of their workTHEIR WORKNicholas A.Dembsey66works
Physical Sciences72%

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. Engineering3654.4%
    2. Materials Science914.3%
    3. Environmental Science33.8%
  2. Everything else1827.5%
  1. 1Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality28% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics14% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicholas A. Dembsey's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smoke Control, Tunnel Fires, Detonation Propulsion, Pulse Detonation Engines, Fire-Retardant Materials, Flame Retardant Polymers, Evacuation and Pedestrian Dynamics.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Smoke Control471 topic
  2. Tunnel Fires471 topic
  3. Detonation Propulsion241 topic
  4. Pulse Detonation Engines241 topic
  5. Fire-Retardant Materials161 topic
  6. Flame Retardant Polymers161 topic
  7. Evacuation141 topic
  8. Pedestrian Dynamics141 topic
  9. Mechanical Properties112 topics
  10. CFD Simulation61 topic
  11. Climate Change61 topic
  12. Concrete61 topic
  13. Forest Fires61 topic
  14. High-Temperature61 topic
  15. Urban Microclimate61 topic
  16. Polymer Blends51 topic
  17. Polymer Crystallization51 topic

Where does Nicholas A. Dembsey work?

Nicholas A. Dembsey's main affiliation in the publication record is Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nicholas A. Dembsey have?

OpenAlex counts 66 works and 1,318 citations for Nicholas A. Dembsey, an h-index of 22, ranking #503,828 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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