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Researcher · Central Electricity Generating Board · United Kingdom

R. D. Nicholson

R. D. Nicholson publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as High Temperature Alloys and Creep, Fatigue and fracture mechanics and Nuclear Materials and Properties.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,040,540
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#206,832
of 367,258
Works
17
Citations
295
Citations per work
17.4
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 52% in Mechanical Engineering
R. D. Nicholson

What does R. D. Nicholson research?

R. D. Nicholson's work is mostly in Engineering (61%), Materials Science (37%).

Physical Sciences: 17 works · 97.9% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 60.9% of their workMechanical Engineering: 7 works · 41.3% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 17.4% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 works · 2.2% of their workMaterials Science: 6 works · 37.0% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 4 works · 23.9% of their workMetals and Alloys: 2 works · 10.9% of their workCeramics and Composites: 0 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKR. D. Nicholson17works
Physical Sciences98%

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. Engineering1060.9%
    2. Materials Science637.0%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering41% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry24% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials17% of their works
  4. 4Metals and Alloys11% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Ceramics and Composites2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. D. Nicholson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Microstructure, Hydrogen Embrittlement, High-Temperature Alloys, Superalloys, Mechanical Properties, Fatigue Crack Closure, Fracture Toughness Testing and Oxidation Resistance.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Microstructure163 topics
  2. Hydrogen Embrittlement123 topics
  3. High-Temperature Alloys101 topic
  4. Superalloys101 topic
  5. Mechanical Properties93 topics
  6. Fatigue Crack Closure81 topic
  7. Fracture Toughness Testing81 topic
  8. Oxidation Resistance72 topics
  9. Accident Tolerant Fuels51 topic
  10. Fuel Cladding51 topic
  11. Passive Films51 topic
  12. Stainless Steels51 topic
  13. High-Strength Steels41 topic
  14. Martensite Transformation41 topic
  15. Residual Stress31 topic
  16. Welding31 topic
  17. Gas Pipeline21 topic
  18. Intermetallic Alloys21 topic
  19. Material Degradation21 topic
  20. TiAl Alloys21 topic

Where does R. D. Nicholson work?

R. D. Nicholson's main affiliation in the publication record is Central Electricity Generating Board, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does R. D. Nicholson have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 295 citations for R. D. Nicholson, an h-index of 9, ranking #3,040,540 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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