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Researcher · Southwest Research Institute · United States

R. A. Burton

R. A. Burton publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Automotive Engineering, on topics such as Tribology and Lubrication Engineering, Brake Systems and Friction Analysis and Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions.

OpenAlex
World rank
#481,554
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#161,934
of 358,040
Works
31
Citations
110
Citations per work
3.5

What does R. A. Burton research?

Mechanical Engineering: 32.6%Mechanics of Materials: 26.1%Automotive Engineering: 13.0%Computational Mechanics: 6.5%other fields: 21.8%33%top field
Mechanical Engineering32.6%Mechanics of Materials26.1%Automotive Engineering13.0%Computational Mechanics6.5%other fields21.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Mechanical Engineering33% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials26% of their works
  3. 3Automotive Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  5. 5Control and Systems Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. A. Burton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tribological Performance, Friction Reduction, Laser Surface Texturing, Automotive Brake, Friction Materials, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration Analysis and Adhesion.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Tribological Performance102 topics
  2. Friction Reduction71 topic
  3. Laser Surface Texturing71 topic
  4. Automotive Brake61 topic
  5. Friction Materials61 topic
  6. Nonlinear Dynamics62 topics
  7. Vibration Analysis62 topics
  8. Adhesion51 topic
  9. Gecko51 topic
  10. Mechanical Properties52 topics
  11. Gear Dynamics41 topic
  12. Mesh Stiffness41 topic
  13. Finite Element Simulation31 topic
  14. Fretting Wear31 topic
  15. Polymer Tribology31 topic
  16. Wear Behavior31 topic
  17. Axially Moving Systems21 topic
  18. Cryogenic Treatment21 topic
  19. Fluid-Conveying Pipes21 topic
  20. Microstructure21 topic

Where does R. A. Burton work?

R. A. Burton's main affiliation in the publication record is Southwest Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. A. Burton have?

Science Explorer counts 31 works and 110 citations for R. A. Burton, ranking #481,554 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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