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Researcher · Building Research Establishment · United Kingdom

P.F. Thorne

P.F. Thorne publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Plant Science and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, on topics such as Fire dynamics and safety research, Thermal and Kinetic Analysis and Horticultural and Viticultural Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,000,167
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#335,718
of 367,258
Works
24
Citations
99
Citations per work
4.1
h-index
3
i10-index 2Top 94% in Mechanical Engineering
P.F. Thorne

What does P.F. Thorne research?

P.F. Thorne's work is mostly in Engineering (37%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%), Materials Science (6%).

Physical Sciences: 10 works · 42.9% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 36.6% of their workMechanical Engineering: 4 works · 17.5% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 works · 9.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 4.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 4.8% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 6.3% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 42.8% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 14.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 works · 14.3% of their workPlant Science: 3 works · 14.3% of their workTHEIR WORKP.F. Thorne24works
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences43%

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. Engineering936.6%
    2. Materials Science26.3%
  2. Everything else1042.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences314.3%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering18% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science14% of their works
  3. 3Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality10% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P.F. Thorne's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Grapevine, Smoke Control, Tunnel Fires, Kinetic Analysis, Thermal Decomposition, Air Pollution, Climate Change and Environmental Risk Analysis.

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. Grapevine62 topics
  2. Smoke Control51 topic
  3. Tunnel Fires51 topic
  4. Kinetic Analysis41 topic
  5. Thermal Decomposition41 topic
  6. Air Pollution31 topic
  7. Climate Change31 topic
  8. Environmental Risk Analysis31 topic
  9. Fungi31 topic
  10. Genetics31 topic
  11. Powdery Mildews31 topic
  12. Chemical Management21 topic
  13. Detonation Propulsion21 topic
  14. Functional–Structural Plant Modelling21 topic
  15. Laboratory Safety21 topic
  16. Plant Architecture21 topic
  17. Pulse Detonation Engines21 topic

Where does P.F. Thorne work?

P.F. Thorne's main affiliation in the publication record is Building Research Establishment, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does P.F. Thorne have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 99 citations for P.F. Thorne, an h-index of 3, ranking #6,000,167 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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