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Researcher · Iowa State University · United States

R. B. Thompson

R. B. Thompson publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation, Non-Destructive Testing Techniques and Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6571-558X OpenAlex
World rank
#536,623
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#174,969
of 358,040
Works
117
Citations
232
Citations per work
2.0

What does R. B. Thompson research?

Mechanics of Materials: 39.3%Mechanical Engineering: 17.8%Biomedical Engineering: 6.7%Materials Chemistry: 5.2%other fields: 31.0%39%top field
Mechanics of Materials39.3%Mechanical Engineering17.8%Biomedical Engineering6.7%Materials Chemistry5.2%other fields31.0%

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

  1. 1Mechanics of Materials39% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. B. Thompson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Non-Destructive Testing, Guided Lamb Waves, Piezoelectric Impedance-Based Health Monitoring, Eddy Current Testing, Non-Destructive Evaluation, Acoustic Wave Biosensors, Gas Pipeline and Ground-Penetrating Radar.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Non-Destructive Testing352 topics
  2. Guided Lamb Waves291 topic
  3. Piezoelectric Impedance-Based Health Monitoring291 topic
  4. Eddy Current Testing151 topic
  5. Non-Destructive Evaluation151 topic
  6. Acoustic Wave Biosensors61 topic
  7. Gas Pipeline61 topic
  8. Ground-Penetrating Radar61 topic
  9. Material Degradation61 topic
  10. Sedimentology61 topic
  11. Thin Film Resonators61 topic
  12. Fatigue Crack Closure51 topic
  13. Flow Measurement51 topic
  14. Fracture Toughness Testing51 topic
  15. Ultrasonic51 topic
  16. MEMS31 topic
  17. Silicon31 topic

Where does R. B. Thompson work?

R. B. Thompson's main affiliation in the publication record is Iowa State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. B. Thompson have?

Science Explorer counts 117 works and 232 citations for R. B. Thompson, ranking #536,623 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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