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World rank
#4,663,069
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#139,987
of 183,316
Works
19
Citations
15
Citations per work
0.8

What does Walter M. Smith research?

Walter M. Smith's work is mostly in Engineering (55%), Environmental Science (8%).

Physical Sciences63%

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. Engineering1155.4%
    2. Environmental Science27.9%
  1. Everything else736.7%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering34% of their works
  2. 2Water Science and Technology8% of their works
  3. 3Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality5% of their works
  4. 4Automotive Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Building and Construction5% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter M. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Product Development, Sediment Transport, Hydraulic Engineering, Land Use Change, Scale Effects, Design Optimization, Footbridges and Hydrological Modeling.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Product Development42 topics
  2. Sediment Transport42 topics
  3. Hydraulic Engineering31 topic
  4. Land Use Change32 topics
  5. Scale Effects31 topic
  6. Design Optimization21 topic
  7. Footbridges21 topic
  8. Hydrological Modeling21 topic
  9. Riparian Vegetation21 topic
  10. River Restoration21 topic
  11. Structural Analysis21 topic
  12. System Maturity21 topic
  13. Technology Readiness Levels21 topic
  14. Vibration Serviceability21 topic
  15. Water Resources21 topic
  16. Agricultural Sustainability11 topic
  17. Interactive Evolutionary Computation11 topic
  18. Music Generation11 topic
  19. Soil Erosion11 topic

Where does Walter M. Smith work?

Walter M. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Hydro One (Canada), Canada.

How many publications and citations does Walter M. Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 15 citations for Walter M. Smith, an h-index of 2, ranking #4,663,069 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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