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Researcher · Atomic Weapons Establishment · United Kingdom

Nicholas J Whitworth

Nicholas J Whitworth publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Energetic Materials and Combustion, Combustion and Detonation Processes and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,249,561
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#162,096
of 367,258
Works
40
Citations
376
Citations per work
9.4
h-index
8
i10-index 5Top 38% in Aerospace Engineering
Nicholas J Whitworth

What does Nicholas J Whitworth research?

Nicholas J Whitworth's work is mostly in Engineering (53%), Materials Science (17%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (15%).

Physical Sciences: 36 works · 89.0% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 53.4% of their workAerospace Engineering: 10 works · 24.6% of their workMechanics of Materials: 10 works · 24.6% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 works · 4.2% of their workMaterials Science: 7 works · 16.9% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 7 works · 16.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 15.3% of their workGeophysics: 6 works · 15.3% of their workMathematics: 1 works · 3.4% of their workApplied Mathematics: 1 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 11.0% of their workTHEIR WORKNicholas JWhitworth40works
Physical Sciences89%

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. Engineering2153.4%
    2. Materials Science716.9%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences615.3%
    4. Mathematics13.4%
  2. Everything else411.0%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering25% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials25% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry17% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics15% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Applied Mathematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicholas J Whitworth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Thermal Decomposition, Energetic Salts, ReaxFF, Detonation Propulsion, Pulse Detonation Engines, Crystal Structure Prediction, Mantle Dynamics and Dynamic Deformation.

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. Thermal Decomposition322 topics
  2. Energetic Salts291 topic
  3. ReaxFF291 topic
  4. Detonation Propulsion261 topic
  5. Pulse Detonation Engines261 topic
  6. Crystal Structure Prediction171 topic
  7. Mantle Dynamics171 topic
  8. Dynamic Deformation161 topic
  9. High Strain Rate161 topic
  10. Blast Loading51 topic
  11. Progressive Collapse51 topic
  12. Boltzmann Equation41 topic
  13. Kinetic Theory41 topic
  14. Isoconversional Methods31 topic
  15. Kinetic Analysis31 topic
  16. Hybrid Rocket Propulsion21 topic
  17. Regression Rate Behavior21 topic

Where does Nicholas J Whitworth work?

Nicholas J Whitworth's main affiliation in the publication record is Atomic Weapons Establishment, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nicholas J Whitworth have?

OpenAlex counts 40 works and 376 citations for Nicholas J Whitworth, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,249,561 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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