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Researcher · British Hydromechanics Research Group · United Kingdom

Robert Flitney

Robert Flitney publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Tribology and Lubrication Engineering, Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation and Engineering Structural Analysis Methods.

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World rank
#5,099,672
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#305,355
of 367,258
Works
28
Citations
82
Citations per work
2.9
h-index
5
i10-index 3Top 81% in Mechanical Engineering
Robert Flitney

What does Robert Flitney research?

Robert Flitney's work is mostly in Engineering (76%), Materials Science (10%), Decision Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 24 works · 85.7% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 75.7% of their workMechanical Engineering: 16 works · 58.6% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 10.0% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 works · 7.1% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 10.0% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 7.1% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 1 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 11.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 2.9% of their workDecision Sciences: 1 works · 2.9% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert Flitney28works
Physical Sciences86%Social Sciences3%

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. Engineering2175.7%
    2. Materials Science310.0%
  2. Everything else311.4%
    1. Decision Sciences12.9%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering59% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  5. 5Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty3% of their works
  6. 6Polymers and Plastics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Flitney's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tribological Performance, Friction Reduction, Laser Surface Texturing, Failure Analysis, Nanocomposites, Fatigue Fracture, Fracture Mechanisms and Nanoparticles.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Tribological Performance222 topics
  2. Friction Reduction171 topic
  3. Laser Surface Texturing171 topic
  4. Failure Analysis102 topics
  5. Nanocomposites92 topics
  6. Fatigue Fracture81 topic
  7. Fracture Mechanisms81 topic
  8. Nanoparticles82 topics
  9. Finite Element Analysis61 topic
  10. Threaded Fasteners61 topic
  11. Polymer Tribology51 topic
  12. Wear Behavior51 topic
  13. Hybrid Materials41 topic
  14. Lubricants41 topic
  15. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes41 topic
  16. Tribology41 topic
  17. Control31 topic
  18. Hydraulic Systems31 topic
  19. Design Optimization21 topic
  20. Structural Analysis21 topic

Where does Robert Flitney work?

Robert Flitney's main affiliation in the publication record is British Hydromechanics Research Group, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Robert Flitney have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 82 citations for Robert Flitney, an h-index of 5, ranking #5,099,672 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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