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Researcher · Building Research Establishment · United Kingdom

P.H. Thomas

P.H. Thomas publishes mostly in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Environmental Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Fire dynamics and safety research, Combustion and Detonation Processes and Wind and Air Flow Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#487,112
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#42,459
of 367,258
Works
178
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
17.3
h-index
27
i10-index 47Top 5.4% in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
P.H. Thomas

What does P.H. Thomas research?

P.H. Thomas's work is mostly in Engineering (47%), Environmental Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 98 works · 54.8% of their workEngineering: 84 works · 47.4% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 42 works · 23.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 13 works · 7.1% of their workMechanical Engineering: 11 works · 6.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 9 works · 5.3% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 9 works · 5.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 13 works · 7.4% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 13 works · 7.4% of their workEverything else: 80 works · 45.2% of their workTHEIR WORKP.H. Thomas178works
Physical Sciences55%

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. Engineering8447.4%
    2. Environmental Science137.4%
  2. Everything else8045.2%
  1. 1Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality24% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Engineering7% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  6. 6Civil and Structural Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P.H. Thomas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smoke Control, Tunnel Fires, Fire Detection, Detonation Propulsion, Pulse Detonation Engines, CFD Simulation, Urban Microclimate and Evacuation.

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 Control831 topic
  2. Tunnel Fires831 topic
  3. Fire Detection212 topics
  4. Detonation Propulsion181 topic
  5. Pulse Detonation Engines181 topic
  6. CFD Simulation161 topic
  7. Urban Microclimate161 topic
  8. Evacuation141 topic
  9. Pedestrian Dynamics141 topic
  10. Air Pollution121 topic
  11. Climate Change121 topic
  12. Environmental Risk Analysis121 topic
  13. Forest Fires121 topic
  14. Computer Vision91 topic
  15. Fire-Retardant Materials91 topic
  16. Flame Retardant Polymers91 topic
  17. Smoke Detection91 topic

Where does P.H. Thomas work?

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

How many publications and citations does P.H. Thomas have?

OpenAlex counts 178 works and 3,074 citations for P.H. Thomas, an h-index of 27, ranking #487,112 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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