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Researcher · Central Electricity Generating Board · United Kingdom

R. P. Skelton

R. P. Skelton publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Fatigue and fracture mechanics, High Temperature Alloys and Creep and Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels.

OpenAlex
World rank
#228,193
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#20,933
of 90,785
Works
29
Citations
165
Citations per work
5.7

What does R. P. Skelton research?

Mechanical Engineering: 38.2%Mechanics of Materials: 23.5%Materials Chemistry: 17.6%Civil and Structural Engineering: 11.8%other fields: 8.9%38%top field
Mechanical Engineering38.2%Mechanics of Materials23.5%Materials Chemistry17.6%Civil and Structural Engineering11.8%other fields8.9%

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

  1. 1Mechanical Engineering38% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials24% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry18% of their works
  4. 4Civil and Structural Engineering12% of their works
  5. 5Metals and Alloys3% of their works
  6. 6Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. P. Skelton's research?

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

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Microstructure133 topics
  2. Fatigue Crack Closure81 topic
  3. Fracture Toughness Testing81 topic
  4. High-Temperature Alloys71 topic
  5. Superalloys71 topic
  6. High-Strength Steels41 topic
  7. Martensite Transformation41 topic
  8. Mechanical Properties42 topics
  9. Concrete21 topic
  10. Gas Pipeline21 topic
  11. High-Temperature21 topic
  12. Material Degradation21 topic
  13. Blast Loading11 topic
  14. Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes11 topic
  15. Metallurgy11 topic
  16. Progressive Collapse11 topic
  17. Structural Engineering11 topic
  18. Thermochemical11 topic

Where does R. P. Skelton work?

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

How many publications and citations does R. P. Skelton have?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 165 citations for R. P. Skelton, ranking #228,193 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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