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Researcher · Swansea University · United Kingdom

William B. Dowsland

William B. Dowsland publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Education, on topics such as Optimization and Packing Problems, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,271,407
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#99,960
of 367,258
Works
22
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
49.6
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 46% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
William B. Dowsland

What does William B. Dowsland research?

William B. Dowsland's work is mostly in Engineering (59%), Computer Science (16%), Social Sciences (9%).

Physical Sciences: 17 works · 75.1% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 59.0% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 12 works · 55.4% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 works · 3.6% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 16.1% of their workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 3 works · 12.5% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 15.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 9.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 9.0% of their workEducation: 1 works · 5.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 1 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam B.Dowsland22works
Physical Sciences75%Social Sciences9%

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. Engineering1359.0%
    2. Computer Science416.1%
  2. Everything else315.9%
    1. Social Sciences29.0%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering55% of their works
  2. 2Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design12% of their works
  3. 3Education5% of their works
  4. 4Control and Systems Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William B. Dowsland's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cutting, Packing, Order Picking, Warehouse Design, Assembly Planning, Delaunay Triangulations, Design for Manufacture and Mesh Generation.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Cutting121 topic
  2. Packing121 topic
  3. Order Picking81 topic
  4. Warehouse Design81 topic
  5. Assembly Planning71 topic
  6. Delaunay Triangulations71 topic
  7. Design for Manufacture71 topic
  8. Mesh Generation71 topic
  9. Assembly Line Balancing21 topic
  10. Optimization Methods21 topic
  11. Training Pathways21 topic
  12. Vocational Education21 topic
  13. Deadlock Prevention11 topic
  14. Heuristic Search11 topic
  15. Petri Nets11 topic
  16. Planning Systems11 topic

Where does William B. Dowsland work?

William B. Dowsland's main affiliation in the publication record is Swansea University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does William B. Dowsland have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 1,092 citations for William B. Dowsland, an h-index of 9, ranking #1,271,407 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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