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Researcher · Itasca Consultants (United States) · United States

Peter A. Cundall

Peter A. Cundall publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering, Rock Mechanics and Modeling and Landslides and related hazards.

OpenAlex
World rank
#115,845
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#44,142
of 1,627,098
Works
93
Citations
33k
Citations per work
352.6
h-index
42
i10-index 62Top 2.1% in Mechanics of Materials
Peter A. Cundall

What does Peter A. Cundall research?

Peter A. Cundall's work is mostly in Engineering (66%), Environmental Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 68 works · 72.6% of their workEngineering: 61 works · 65.5% of their workMechanics of Materials: 23 works · 25.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 12 works · 12.8% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 11 works · 11.7% of their workOcean Engineering: 8 works · 8.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 7 works · 7.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 7 works · 7.1% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 27.4% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter A. Cundall93works
Physical Sciences73%

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. Engineering6165.5%
    2. Environmental Science77.1%
  2. Everything else2527.4%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials25% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter A. Cundall's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Rock Mechanics, Seismicity, Wave Propagation, Acoustic Emission, Fracture, Hazard, Landslide and Drilling Fluids.

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. Rock Mechanics502 topics
  2. Seismicity261 topic
  3. Wave Propagation261 topic
  4. Acoustic Emission241 topic
  5. Fracture241 topic
  6. Hazard181 topic
  7. Landslide181 topic
  8. Drilling Fluids151 topic
  9. Well Integrity151 topic
  10. Discrete Particle Simulation131 topic
  11. Granular Flows131 topic
  12. Hydraulic Fracturing121 topic
  13. Shale Gas Reservoirs121 topic
  14. SPH Method81 topic
  15. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics81 topic
  16. Full-Waveform Tomography71 topic
  17. Seismic Waveform Inversion71 topic

Where does Peter A. Cundall work?

Peter A. Cundall's main affiliation in the publication record is Itasca Consultants (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter A. Cundall have?

OpenAlex counts 93 works and 32,795 citations for Peter A. Cundall, an h-index of 42, ranking #115,845 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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