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Researcher · Cabot (United States) · United States

W. R. Smith

W. R. Smith publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Nuclear and radioactivity studies, Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies and Microwave Engineering and Waveguides.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,368,551
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#703,824
of 1,627,098
Works
83
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
15.5
h-index
19
i10-index 28Top 20% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
W. R. Smith

What does W. R. Smith research?

W. R. Smith's work is mostly in Engineering (36%), Materials Science (15%).

Physical Sciences: 43 works · 51.5% of their workEngineering: 30 works · 36.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 14 works · 17.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 7 works · 8.1% of their workMechanical Engineering: 5 works · 6.2% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 works · 4.8% of their workMaterials Science: 13 works · 15.3% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 9 works · 10.5% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 4 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 40 works · 48.5% of their workTHEIR WORKW. R. Smith83works
Physical Sciences52%

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. Engineering3036.2%
    2. Materials Science1315.3%
  2. Everything else4048.5%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering17% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality5% of their works
  6. 6Polymers and Plastics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. R. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nuclear Fuel, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Graphite, Oxidation Behavior, Carbon Fiber, Microwave Filters, Recycling and Substrate Integrated Waveguide.

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. Nuclear Fuel101 topic
  2. Radiation Protection101 topic
  3. Nuclear Graphite81 topic
  4. Oxidation Behavior81 topic
  5. Carbon Fiber71 topic
  6. Microwave Filters71 topic
  7. Recycling71 topic
  8. Substrate Integrated Waveguide71 topic
  9. Molten Salt51 topic
  10. Nanocomposites51 topic
  11. Negative Ion Sources51 topic
  12. Nuclear Reactor51 topic
  13. Polymer51 topic
  14. Superconducting Cavities51 topic
  15. Chemistry Education41 topic
  16. Laboratory Techniques41 topic

Where does W. R. Smith work?

W. R. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Cabot (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does W. R. Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 83 works and 1,283 citations for W. R. Smith, an h-index of 19, ranking #2,368,551 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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