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Researcher · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Hong Kong

W. K. Chow

W. K. Chow publishes mostly in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Ocean Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Fire dynamics and safety research, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics and Fire Detection and Safety Systems.

ORCID 0000-0001-8398-3126 OpenAlex
World rank
#439,428
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Hong Kong
#1,981
of 5,618
Works
242
Citations
608
Citations per work
2.5

What does W. K. Chow research?

Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 32.6%Ocean Engineering: 17.9%Aerospace Engineering: 6.8%Environmental Engineering: 5.7%other fields: 37.0%33%top field
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality32.6%Ocean Engineering17.9%Aerospace Engineering6.8%Environmental Engineering5.7%other fields37.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality33% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. K. Chow's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Smoke Control, Tunnel Fires, Evacuation, Pedestrian Dynamics, Computer Vision, Fire Detection, CFD Simulation and Urban Microclimate.

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.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Smoke Control711 topic
  2. Tunnel Fires711 topic
  3. Evacuation481 topic
  4. Pedestrian Dynamics481 topic
  5. Computer Vision181 topic
  6. Fire Detection181 topic
  7. CFD Simulation141 topic
  8. Urban Microclimate141 topic
  9. Detonation Propulsion111 topic
  10. Pulse Detonation Engines111 topic
  11. Climate Change101 topic
  12. Forest Fires101 topic
  13. Fire-Retardant Materials71 topic
  14. Flame Retardant Polymers71 topic
  15. Concrete51 topic
  16. High-Temperature51 topic

Where does W. K. Chow work?

W. K. Chow's main affiliation in the publication record is Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

How many publications and citations does W. K. Chow have?

Science Explorer counts 242 works and 608 citations for W. K. Chow, ranking #439,428 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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