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Researcher · Renton Technical College · United States

William D. Smith

William D. Smith publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Fiber-reinforced polymer composites, Metal and Thin Film Mechanics and Advanced ceramic materials synthesis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,399,722
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,513,371
of 1,627,098
Works
21
Citations
39
Citations per work
1.9
h-index
3
i10-index 2Top 94% in Mechanical Engineering
William D. Smith

What does William D. Smith research?

William D. Smith's work is mostly in Engineering (35%), Materials Science (22%), Medicine (6%).

Physical Sciences: 12 works · 57.1% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 34.7% of their workMechanical Engineering: 4 works · 20.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 works · 8.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 6.1% of their workMaterials Science: 5 works · 22.4% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 16.3% of their workCeramics and Composites: 1 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 36.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 6.1% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 6.1% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam D. Smith21works
Physical Sciences57%Health Sciences6%

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. Engineering734.7%
    2. Materials Science522.4%
  2. Everything else836.8%
    1. Medicine16.1%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering20% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry16% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6% of their works
  6. 6Ceramics and Composites6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William D. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mechanical Properties, Composite Materials, Carbon Fiber, Recycling, Ceramic Materials, Nanoindentation, Sintering and Thin Films.

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. Mechanical Properties124 topics
  2. Composite Materials82 topics
  3. Carbon Fiber51 topic
  4. Recycling51 topic
  5. Ceramic Materials31 topic
  6. Nanoindentation31 topic
  7. Sintering31 topic
  8. Thin Films31 topic
  9. Biomedical Applications21 topic
  10. Boron Nitride Nanotubes21 topic
  11. Metal Matrix Composites21 topic
  12. Nb3Sn Conductor21 topic
  13. Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis21 topic
  14. Pulmonary Sclerosing Hemangioma21 topic
  15. Reinforcement21 topic
  16. Superconducting Magnets21 topic
  17. Superhard Materials21 topic
  18. Titanium Alloys21 topic

Where does William D. Smith work?

William D. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Renton Technical College, United States.

How many publications and citations does William D. Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 39 citations for William D. Smith, an h-index of 3, ranking #6,399,722 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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