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Ralf Förster

Ralf Förster publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, on topics such as Bamboo properties and applications, Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Composite Material Mechanics.

World rank
#1,435,533
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#78,607
of 86,443
Works
22
Citations
13
Citations per work
0.6

What does Ralf Förster research?

Mechanical Engineering: 17.9%Mechanics of Materials: 14.3%Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 10.7%Computational Mechanics: 7.1%other fields: 50.0%18%top field
Mechanical Engineering17.9%Mechanics of Materials14.3%Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering10.7%Computational Mechanics7.1%other fields50.0%

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

  1. 1Mechanical Engineering18% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials14% of their works
  3. 3Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science7% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralf Förster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Composite Materials, Sustainability, Applications, Bamboo, Flexible Automation, Heterogeneous Materials, Multi-Scale and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Composite Materials42 topics
  2. Sustainability32 topics
  3. Applications22 topics
  4. Bamboo21 topic
  5. Flexible Automation21 topic
  6. Heterogeneous Materials21 topic
  7. Multi-Scale21 topic
  8. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems21 topic
  9. Structural Applications21 topic
  10. 3D Printing11 topic
  11. Additive Manufacturing11 topic
  12. Aerogels11 topic
  13. Digital Fabrication11 topic
  14. Ionization11 topic
  15. Mass Spectrometry11 topic
  16. Parametricism11 topic
  17. Protein11 topic
  18. Structure11 topic
  19. Synthesis11 topic

Where does Ralf Förster work?

Ralf Förster's main affiliation in the publication record is Berliner Hochschule für Technik, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Ralf Förster have?

Science Explorer counts 22 works and 13 citations for Ralf Förster, ranking #1,435,533 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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