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Researcher · Palo Alto Research Center · United States

Ralph C. Merkle

Ralph C. Merkle publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Carbon Nanotubes in Composites, Nanotechnology research and applications and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#223,285
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#88,879
of 358,040
Works
16
Citations
685
Citations per work
42.8

What does Ralph C. Merkle research?

Materials Chemistry: 36.8%Biomedical Engineering: 21.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 15.8%Catalysis: 5.3%other fields: 21.0%37%top field
Materials Chemistry36.8%Biomedical Engineering21.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics15.8%Catalysis5.3%other fields21.0%

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

  1. 1Materials Chemistry37% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering21% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics16% of their works
  4. 4Catalysis5% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems5% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralph C. Merkle's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biomedical Applications, Carbon, Nanotubes, Nanodiamonds, Nanoscale Science, Nanotechnology, Quantum Sensing and Catalysis.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Biomedical Applications32 topics
  2. Carbon31 topic
  3. Nanotubes31 topic
  4. Nanodiamonds21 topic
  5. Nanoscale Science21 topic
  6. Nanotechnology21 topic
  7. Quantum Sensing21 topic
  8. Catalysis11 topic
  9. DRM11 topic
  10. Dehydrogenation11 topic
  11. Detection11 topic
  12. Electrochemical11 topic
  13. Endohedral Fullerenes11 topic
  14. Fullerenes11 topic
  15. Interoperable11 topic
  16. Ion-Selective Electrodes11 topic
  17. Optical Sensors11 topic

Where does Ralph C. Merkle work?

Ralph C. Merkle's main affiliation in the publication record is Palo Alto Research Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ralph C. Merkle have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 685 citations for Ralph C. Merkle, ranking #223,285 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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