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Researcher · Martec (Canada) · Canada

Robert C. Ripley

Robert C. Ripley publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Ocean Engineering, on topics such as Combustion and Detonation Processes, Energetic Materials and Combustion and Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows.

OpenAlex
World rank
#653,237
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#22,628
of 183,316
Works
63
Citations
4.2k
Citations per work
67.2
h-index
19
i10-index 30Top 6.9% in Aerospace Engineering
Robert C. Ripley

What does Robert C. Ripley research?

Robert C. Ripley's work is mostly in Engineering (67%), Materials Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 45 works · 71.6% of their workEngineering: 42 works · 67.2% of their workAerospace Engineering: 16 works · 25.6% of their workMechanics of Materials: 9 works · 14.4% of their workOcean Engineering: 6 works · 10.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 9.4% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 5 works · 7.8% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 4.4% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 28.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert C. Ripley63works
Physical Sciences72%

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. Engineering4267.2%
    2. Materials Science34.4%
  2. Everything else1828.4%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering26% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials14% of their works
  3. 3Ocean Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  5. 5Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality8% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert C. Ripley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Detonation Propulsion, Pulse Detonation Engines, Energetic Salts, ReaxFF, Particles, Turbulence, Smoke Control and Tunnel Fires.

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. Detonation Propulsion411 topic
  2. Pulse Detonation Engines411 topic
  3. Energetic Salts261 topic
  4. ReaxFF261 topic
  5. Particles181 topic
  6. Turbulence181 topic
  7. Smoke Control141 topic
  8. Tunnel Fires141 topic
  9. Blast Loading71 topic
  10. Dynamic Deformation71 topic
  11. High Strain Rate71 topic
  12. Progressive Collapse71 topic
  13. Bayesian Networks61 topic
  14. Fault Tree Analysis61 topic
  15. High-Order Schemes51 topic
  16. Turbulence Modeling51 topic

Where does Robert C. Ripley work?

Robert C. Ripley's main affiliation in the publication record is Martec (Canada), Canada.

How many publications and citations does Robert C. Ripley have?

OpenAlex counts 63 works and 4,236 citations for Robert C. Ripley, an h-index of 19, ranking #653,237 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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