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Researcher · Phillips Exeter Academy · United States

Wilfred Sykes

Wilfred Sykes publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, on topics such as Electric Power Systems and Control, Metallurgy and Material Forming and Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency.

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World rank
#5,410,762
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,371,458
of 1,627,098
Works
30
Citations
19
Citations per work
0.6
h-index
2
i10-index 0Top 98% in Mechanical Engineering
Wilfred Sykes

What does Wilfred Sykes research?

Wilfred Sykes's work is mostly in Engineering (71%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%).

Physical Sciences: 21 works · 71.4% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 71.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 6 works · 21.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 works · 20.0% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 works · 11.4% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 10.0% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 works · 8.6% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 24.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 4.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 4.3% of their workStrategy and Management: 1 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKWilfred Sykes30works
Physical Sciences71%Social Sciences4%

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. Engineering2171.4%
  2. Everything else724.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting14.3%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering21% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering20% of their works
  3. 3Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  5. 5Control and Systems Engineering9% of their works
  6. 6Strategy and Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wilfred Sykes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Energy Efficiency, Optimization, Control Systems, Electric Drives, Dynamic Recrystallization, Hot Deformation, Railway Timetabling and Train Scheduling.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Energy Efficiency214 topics
  2. Optimization122 topics
  3. Control Systems91 topic
  4. Electric Drives91 topic
  5. Dynamic Recrystallization61 topic
  6. Hot Deformation61 topic
  7. Railway Timetabling51 topic
  8. Train Scheduling51 topic
  9. Comminution41 topic
  10. Mineral Liberation Analysis41 topic
  11. Electric Motor Drives31 topic
  12. Ground Vibration31 topic
  13. Industrial Engineering31 topic
  14. Open Pit Mining31 topic
  15. Permanent Magnet Machines31 topic
  16. Production Scheduling31 topic
  17. Railway Dynamics31 topic
  18. Technology Development31 topic

Where does Wilfred Sykes work?

Wilfred Sykes's main affiliation in the publication record is Phillips Exeter Academy, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wilfred Sykes have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 19 citations for Wilfred Sykes, an h-index of 2, ranking #5,410,762 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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