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Researcher · Oak Ridge National Laboratory · United States

R.E. Best

R.E. Best publishes mostly in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Materials Chemistry and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, on topics such as Nuclear and radioactivity studies, Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies and Risk and Safety Analysis.

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World rank
#7,363,525
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,603,666
of 1,627,098
Works
37
Citations
12
Citations per work
0.3
h-index
2
i10-index 0Top 96% in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
R.E. Best

What does R.E. Best research?

R.E. Best's work is mostly in Engineering (41%), Materials Science (24%), Decision Sciences (13%).

Physical Sciences: 24 works · 65.7% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 41.5% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 10 works · 26.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 7.1% of their workMechanical Engineering: 2 works · 5.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 3.0% of their workMaterials Science: 9 works · 24.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 9 works · 24.2% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 21.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 13.1% of their workDecision Sciences: 5 works · 13.1% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 5 works · 13.1% of their workTHEIR WORKR.E. Best37works
Physical Sciences66%Social Sciences13%

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. Engineering1541.5%
    2. Materials Science924.2%
  2. Everything else821.2%
    1. Decision Sciences513.1%
  1. 1Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry24% of their works
  3. 3Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty13% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R.E. Best's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nuclear Fuel, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Graphite, Oxidation Behavior, Bayesian Networks, Fault Tree Analysis, Accident Tolerant Fuels and Fuel Cladding.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Nuclear Fuel261 topic
  2. Radiation Protection261 topic
  3. Nuclear Graphite151 topic
  4. Oxidation Behavior151 topic
  5. Bayesian Networks131 topic
  6. Fault Tree Analysis131 topic
  7. Accident Tolerant Fuels81 topic
  8. Fuel Cladding81 topic
  9. Molten Salt41 topic
  10. Nuclear Reactor41 topic
  11. Actinides21 topic
  12. Obsolescence Forecasting21 topic
  13. Radiation Effects21 topic
  14. Soft Errors21 topic
  15. Technology Refreshment21 topic
  16. Uranium21 topic

Where does R.E. Best work?

R.E. Best's main affiliation in the publication record is Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does R.E. Best have?

OpenAlex counts 37 works and 12 citations for R.E. Best, an h-index of 2, ranking #7,363,525 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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