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Researcher · Central Electricity Generating Board · United Kingdom

R. V. Hesketh

R. V. Hesketh publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Nuclear Materials and Properties, Fusion materials and technologies and Nuclear reactor physics and engineering.

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World rank
#3,274,575
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#219,305
of 367,258
Works
52
Citations
431
Citations per work
8.3
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 69% in Materials Chemistry
R. V. Hesketh

What does R. V. Hesketh research?

R. V. Hesketh's work is mostly in Materials Science (29%), Engineering (26%), Physics and Astronomy (7%).

Physical Sciences: 32 works · 61.8% of their workMaterials Science: 15 works · 28.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 15 works · 28.7% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 25.7% of their workMechanical Engineering: 6 works · 11.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 3 works · 5.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 4.4% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 works · 4.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 7.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 7.4% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 38.2% of their workTHEIR WORKR. V. Hesketh52works
Physical Sciences62%

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. Materials Science1528.7%
    2. Engineering1325.7%
    3. Physics and Astronomy47.4%
  2. Everything else2038.2%
  1. 1Materials Chemistry29% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. V. Hesketh's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accident Tolerant Fuels, Fuel Cladding, fusion materials, radiation damage, Molten Salt, Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Graphite and Nuclear Reactor.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Accident Tolerant Fuels111 topic
  2. Fuel Cladding111 topic
  3. fusion materials91 topic
  4. radiation damage91 topic
  5. Molten Salt61 topic
  6. Nuclear Fuel61 topic
  7. Nuclear Graphite61 topic
  8. Nuclear Reactor61 topic
  9. Oxidation Behavior61 topic
  10. Radiation Protection61 topic
  11. Ion Beam51 topic
  12. Nanocrystalline Materials51 topic
  13. Severe Plastic Deformation51 topic
  14. Surface Analysis51 topic
  15. Quantum Size Effects41 topic
  16. Superconductivity41 topic

Where does R. V. Hesketh work?

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

How many publications and citations does R. V. Hesketh have?

OpenAlex counts 52 works and 431 citations for R. V. Hesketh, an h-index of 10, ranking #3,274,575 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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