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Researcher · Transnet (South Africa) · South Africa

Robert Desmond Fröhling

Robert Desmond Fröhling publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis and Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,121,718
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#8,987
of 29,826
Works
39
Citations
639
Citations per work
16.4
h-index
16
i10-index 20Top 22% in Mechanical Engineering
Robert Desmond Fröhling

What does Robert Desmond Fröhling research?

Robert Desmond Fröhling's work is mostly in Engineering (81%).

Physical Sciences: 31 works · 80.6% of their workEngineering: 31 works · 80.6% of their workMechanical Engineering: 14 works · 35.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 6 works · 15.5% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 works · 12.6% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 3 works · 6.8% of their workGeneral Engineering: 2 works · 5.8% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 19.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert DesmondFröhling39works
Physical Sciences81%

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. Engineering3180.6%
  2. Everything else819.4%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering35% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials16% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Automotive Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5General Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Desmond Fröhling's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Rolling Contact Fatigue, Ground Vibration, Railway Dynamics, Finite Element Simulation, Fretting Wear, Analysis, Engineering and Research.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Rolling Contact Fatigue282 topics
  2. Ground Vibration241 topic
  3. Railway Dynamics241 topic
  4. Finite Element Simulation121 topic
  5. Fretting Wear121 topic
  6. Analysis112 topics
  7. Engineering61 topic
  8. Research61 topic
  9. Seismic51 topic
  10. Tunnel51 topic
  11. Automotive Brake41 topic
  12. Friction Materials41 topic
  13. Gear Dynamics41 topic
  14. Mesh Stiffness41 topic
  15. Control Systems31 topic
  16. Railway Timetabling31 topic
  17. Train Scheduling31 topic
  18. Vehicle Dynamics31 topic

Where does Robert Desmond Fröhling work?

Robert Desmond Fröhling's main affiliation in the publication record is Transnet (South Africa), South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Robert Desmond Fröhling have?

OpenAlex counts 39 works and 639 citations for Robert Desmond Fröhling, an h-index of 16, ranking #2,121,718 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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