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Researcher · Central Electricity Generating Board · United Kingdom

Richard Peter Skelton

Richard Peter Skelton publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Fatigue and fracture mechanics, High Temperature Alloys and Creep and Fire effects on concrete materials.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,313,963
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#102,787
of 367,258
Works
98
Citations
2k
Citations per work
20.1
h-index
22
i10-index 49Top 12% in Mechanical Engineering
Richard Peter Skelton

What does Richard Peter Skelton research?

Richard Peter Skelton's work is mostly in Engineering (83%), Materials Science (10%), Decision Sciences (1%).

Physical Sciences: 92 works · 94.0% of their workEngineering: 82 works · 83.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 39 works · 40.3% of their workMechanics of Materials: 29 works · 29.3% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 14 works · 13.8% of their workMaterials Science: 9 works · 9.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 9 works · 9.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 1.1% of their workGeophysics: 1 works · 1.1% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 4.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 1.4% of their workDecision Sciences: 1 works · 1.4% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 works · 1.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard PeterSkelton98works
Physical Sciences94%Social Sciences1%

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. Engineering8283.4%
    2. Materials Science99.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.1%
  2. Everything else54.6%
    1. Decision Sciences11.4%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering40% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials29% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  5. 5Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty1% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Peter Skelton's research?

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

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. Microstructure1394 topics
  2. Fatigue Crack Closure741 topic
  3. Fracture Toughness Testing741 topic
  4. High-Temperature Alloys721 topic
  5. Superalloys721 topic
  6. Mechanical Properties453 topics
  7. Concrete331 topic
  8. High-Temperature331 topic
  9. High-Strength Steels301 topic
  10. Martensite Transformation301 topic
  11. Constitutive Modeling142 topics
  12. Microstructural Evolution142 topics
  13. Dynamic Deformation81 topic
  14. Gas Pipeline81 topic
  15. High Strain Rate81 topic
  16. Material Degradation81 topic
  17. Dynamic Recrystallization61 topic
  18. Hot Deformation61 topic
  19. Metal Matrix Composites41 topic
  20. Reinforcement41 topic

Where does Richard Peter Skelton work?

Richard Peter Skelton's main affiliation in the publication record is Central Electricity Generating Board, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Richard Peter Skelton have?

OpenAlex counts 98 works and 1,965 citations for Richard Peter Skelton, an h-index of 22, ranking #1,313,963 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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