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Researcher · ETH Zurich · Switzerland

Tom Van Mele

Tom Van Mele publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials, Architecture and Computational Design and Structural Analysis and Optimization.

ORCID 0000-0002-4614-1808 OpenAlex
World rank
#671,290
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#11,983
of 80,918
Works
138
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
15.1
h-index
27
i10-index 51Top 6.5% in Civil and Structural Engineering
Tom Van Mele

What does Tom Van Mele research?

Tom Van Mele's work is mostly in Engineering (64%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 96 works · 69.6% of their workEngineering: 88 works · 64.1% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 34 works · 24.7% of their workBuilding and Construction: 25 works · 18.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 12 works · 8.4% of their workArchitecture: 11 works · 8.1% of their workComputational Mechanics: 7 works · 4.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 5.5% of their workGeology: 8 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 30.4% of their workTHEIR WORKTom Van Mele138works
Physical Sciences70%

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. Engineering8864.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences85.5%
  2. Everything else4230.4%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering25% of their works
  2. 2Building and Construction18% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Architecture8% of their works
  5. 5Geology6% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tom Van Mele's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Digital Fabrication, 3D Printing, Concrete Extrusion, Cultural Heritage, Parametricism, Urban Morphology, Form-Finding and Masonry Strengthening.

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. Digital Fabrication662 topics
  2. 3D Printing381 topic
  3. Concrete Extrusion381 topic
  4. Cultural Heritage292 topics
  5. Parametricism281 topic
  6. Urban Morphology281 topic
  7. Form-Finding231 topic
  8. Masonry Strengthening231 topic
  9. Seismic Analysis231 topic
  10. Tensegrity231 topic
  11. BIM221 topic
  12. Construction221 topic
  13. Photogrammetry191 topic
  14. UAV191 topic
  15. Assembly Planning151 topic
  16. Design for Manufacture151 topic
  17. Biodeterioration101 topic
  18. Geomycology101 topic

Where does Tom Van Mele work?

Tom Van Mele's main affiliation in the publication record is ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Tom Van Mele have?

OpenAlex counts 138 works and 2,080 citations for Tom Van Mele, an h-index of 27, ranking #671,290 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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