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Researcher · Building Research Establishment · United Kingdom

W.D. Woolley

W.D. Woolley publishes mostly in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Polymers and Plastics and General Materials Science, on topics such as Fire dynamics and safety research, Flame retardant materials and properties and Material Properties and Applications.

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World rank
#853,609
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#70,442
of 367,258
Works
42
Citations
746
Citations per work
17.8
h-index
14
i10-index 18Top 21% in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
W.D. Woolley

What does W.D. Woolley research?

W.D. Woolley's work is mostly in Engineering (35%), Materials Science (28%), Chemistry (6%).

Physical Sciences: 29 works · 68.5% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 34.8% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 11 works · 25.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 4.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 4.5% of their workMaterials Science: 12 works · 28.1% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 8 works · 19.1% of their workGeneral Materials Science: 4 works · 9.0% of their workChemistry: 2 works · 5.6% of their workSpectroscopy: 2 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 31.5% of their workTHEIR WORKW.D. Woolley42works
Physical Sciences68%

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. Engineering1534.8%
    2. Materials Science1228.1%
    3. Chemistry25.6%
  2. Everything else1331.5%
  1. 1Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics19% of their works
  3. 3General Materials Science9% of their works
  4. 4Spectroscopy6% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W.D. Woolley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smoke Control, Tunnel Fires, Fire-Retardant Materials, Flame Retardant Polymers, Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics, Polymer Composite Materials, Plasticizers and Poly(vinyl chloride).

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. Smoke Control201 topic
  2. Tunnel Fires201 topic
  3. Fire-Retardant Materials101 topic
  4. Flame Retardant Polymers101 topic
  5. Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics71 topic
  6. Polymer Composite Materials71 topic
  7. Plasticizers51 topic
  8. Poly(vinyl chloride)51 topic
  9. Detonation Propulsion31 topic
  10. Pulse Detonation Engines31 topic
  11. Catalysis21 topic
  12. Chiral Separation21 topic
  13. Dehydrogenation21 topic
  14. Ionization21 topic
  15. Liquid Chromatography21 topic
  16. Mass Spectrometry21 topic

Where does W.D. Woolley work?

W.D. Woolley's main affiliation in the publication record is Building Research Establishment, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does W.D. Woolley have?

OpenAlex counts 42 works and 746 citations for W.D. Woolley, an h-index of 14, ranking #853,609 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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