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Researcher · University of Sheffield · United Kingdom

William A. Skipper

William A. Skipper publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis.

ORCID 0000-0001-8315-2656 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,232,729
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#341,940
of 367,258
Works
30
Citations
302
Citations per work
10.1
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 40% in Mechanical Engineering
William A. Skipper

What does William A. Skipper research?

William A. Skipper's work is mostly in Engineering (79%), Materials Science (6%), Computer Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 26 works · 87.3% of their workEngineering: 24 works · 78.9% of their workMechanical Engineering: 12 works · 39.4% of their workMechanics of Materials: 8 works · 28.2% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 works · 11.3% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 5.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 2 works · 5.6% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 2.8% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 9.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 2.8% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 2.8% of their workStrategy and Management: 1 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam A.Skipper30works
Physical Sciences87%Social Sciences3%

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. Engineering2478.9%
    2. Materials Science25.6%
    3. Computer Science12.8%
  2. Everything else39.9%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting12.8%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering39% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials28% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management3% of their works
  6. 6Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Skipper's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: High-Speed Trains, Ground Vibration, Railway Dynamics, Adhesion, Gecko, Finite Element Simulation, Fretting Wear and Cryogenic Treatment.

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. High-Speed Trains242 topics
  2. Ground Vibration211 topic
  3. Railway Dynamics211 topic
  4. Adhesion141 topic
  5. Gecko141 topic
  6. Finite Element Simulation51 topic
  7. Fretting Wear51 topic
  8. Cryogenic Treatment41 topic
  9. Microstructure41 topic
  10. Electrical Contact Materials31 topic
  11. Pantograph-Catenary Interaction31 topic
  12. Asphalt21 topic
  13. Bitumen Modification21 topic
  14. Deep Learning21 topic
  15. Pavement21 topic
  16. Performance Prediction21 topic
  17. TBM21 topic

Where does William A. Skipper work?

William A. Skipper's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does William A. Skipper have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 302 citations for William A. Skipper, an h-index of 11, ranking #6,232,729 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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