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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Wei Yao

Wei Yao publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Rock Mechanics and Modeling, Geophysical Methods and Applications and Landslides and related hazards.

ORCID 0000-0003-2208-667X OpenAlex
World rank
#721,630
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#22,548
of 38,960
Works
22
Citations
92
Citations per work
4.2

What does Wei Yao research?

Mechanics of Materials: 33.3%Ocean Engineering: 15.2%Mechanical Engineering: 12.1%Civil and Structural Engineering: 9.1%other fields: 30.3%33%top field
Mechanics of Materials33.3%Ocean Engineering15.2%Mechanical Engineering12.1%Civil and Structural Engineering9.1%other fields30.3%

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

  1. 1Mechanics of Materials33% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Civil and Structural Engineering9% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law9% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wei Yao's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Rock Mechanics, Acoustic Emission, Fracture, Ground-Penetrating Radar, Hazard, Landslide, Sedimentology and Drilling Fluids.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Rock Mechanics82 topics
  2. Acoustic Emission61 topic
  3. Fracture61 topic
  4. Ground-Penetrating Radar31 topic
  5. Hazard31 topic
  6. Landslide31 topic
  7. Sedimentology31 topic
  8. Drilling Fluids21 topic
  9. Full-Waveform Tomography21 topic
  10. Seismic Waveform Inversion21 topic
  11. Seismicity21 topic
  12. Wave Propagation21 topic
  13. Well Integrity21 topic
  14. Construction11 topic
  15. Educational Assessment11 topic
  16. Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites11 topic
  17. Fuzzy Logic11 topic

Where does Wei Yao work?

Wei Yao's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Wei Yao have?

Science Explorer counts 22 works and 92 citations for Wei Yao, ranking #721,630 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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