Dearn, Karl D ^PhD

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston

Senior researcher with 95 publications in the last 18 years

ORCID: 0000-0002-8664-4303

Mechanical Engineering

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Professor Karl Dearn, Head of the School of Engineering, a mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Birmingham, has significantly contributed to mechanical design and tribology. His research focuses on improving the performance and efficiency of mechanical components and devices. Professor Dearn has developed design methodologies based on fundamental principles of engineering science and tribological methods and techniques founded in materials science and mathematical tools to understand problems. Beyond his research, His leadership skills are also noteworthy. He has held various positions, including the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, the Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Cryogenic Energy Storage, and the Lead Academic of the Tribology Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UoB. He has also been actively involved in professional activities such as research, administration, and teaching. Professor Dearn has authored over 100 refereed research articles and has given over ten invited talks at international institutions and conferences. He has supervised 20 PhD students and has received approximately £5M in personal grant income. In addition, Professor Dearn has been a part of significant strategic awards such as Government/Industry, Accelerating Thermal Energy Technology Adoption (ATETA - £4.5M), Energy Research Accelerator, T-ERA (£20M), and EPSRC 8 Great Technologies Centre for Cryogenic Energy Storage (£6M). Professor Dearn was also recognised for his teaching excellence, having been named a Birmingham Teaching Fellow in 2017. He has served as an External Programme Examiner for several Universities. Professor Dearn's accomplishments and contributions have earned him numerous awards and honours, including the Business with Birmingham Best Innovative Idea for Exploitation, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce – Most successful business collaboration, and the Higher Education Academy Fellowship, Institution of Mechanical Engineers Visionary, and Whitworth Senior Scholar. Professor Dearn continues to make significant contributions to mechanical design and tribology, and his leadership and expertise are highly valued in academia and industry. show More

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Evolution over the last 10 years of activity

Aggregated career metrics

Total documents

2.11

Normalized Impact

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

54.74

International Collab. (%)

Most cited publications

Main coauthors

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Activity

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Activity

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Available data

All documents ^*

^*96 including 1 non countable items

Citable documents

5.3

Documents / year

Books

Document type

Academic output

Last 5 years

All documents

Citable documents

5.2

Documents / year

Books

Impact

/1000

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Impact

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Score: 0 / 1000

Academic Impact

2,255

Citations

2.11

Relative Citation Index

1.23

Journal Relative Citation Index

H Index

Normalized Impact

% Documents above & below the reference

Impact on Open Access (OA) vs. PayWalled documents

120

Self-citations

5.32

Self Citation Rate (%)

94.68

Non Self Citation Rate (%)

Trending papers

Excellence

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Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Excellence

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Score: 0 / 1000

Academic Excellence

Highly Cited Paper (Top 10%, HCP)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1%, OP)

2.63

Relative number of HCP (RHCP)

2.11

Relative number of OP
(ROP)

Normalized Excellence

Citation percentile: from 0 to 100

Citation percentile: from 99 to 100

Highly Cited Papers (Top 10% cited)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1% cited)

Leadership

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Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Leadership

Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

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Publications lead

37%

Correspondence author

54%

First author

27%

Last author

Publications lead per year

Subset publications

International docs

10% Top cited

1% Top cited

RCI > 1

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First author

Last author

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Cooperation

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Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.

Cooperation

Score: 0 / 1000

Collaboration

55%

International collaboration

Avg. Authors / publication

1.6

Avg. Countries / publication

0% (> 25 authors)

Docs highly authored

Employments

Educations

Openness

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Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Community Support

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Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Community Recognition

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Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Transference

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Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Fundraising

/1000

Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

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Performance

Activity

Reflects an author's research output.

Documents	95	Count of all document types.
Docs/Year	5.28	Average of documents published by author per year.
Citable docs	90	Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews.
Journal Articles	86	Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed.
Conferences	3	Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium.
Reviews	1	Review papers authored by the researcher.
Patents	0	Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Theses	0	Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings
Books	0	A whole monograph or the entire book.
Book Chapters	0	Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator.
Datasets	0	Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation.
Editorials	0	Papers where the author contributed editorial content.
Reports	0	Research reports or white papers authored.
Grants	0	Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author.
Pre-Prints	0	Number of publications freely available in pre-print format.
Clinical Trials	N/A	Number of clinical trials where the author has participated.
Other types	0	Other type of documents.

Impact

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citations	2255	Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types).
Self Citations	120	Citations where the author references their own previous work.
Self Citation Rate	5.322	Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count.
Non Self Citation Rate	94.678	Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations.
Hot Citations	106	Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months.
Citations/Document	23.74	Average of citations recieved per document.
% Not Cited	0.0	Percentage of documents with no citations recieved.
Relative Citation Index	2.113	Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
Journal Relative Citation Index	1.229	Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
H Index	26	Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times.
G Index	44	Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times.
i10 Index	54	Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved.

Excellence

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citation Score	0.697	Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th.
Citation Normalized Percentile	0.7	Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex.
Higly Cited Papers (top 10%)	25	Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Higly Cited Papers	2.632	Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 1%)	2	Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Outstanding Papers	2.105	Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%)	0	Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Hot Papers	2	Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.

Interaction within community

Leadership

Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Docs Leadership	39	Number of documents lead by the author.
% Leadership	41.05	Percentage of documents lead by the author.
Docs International Leadership	16	Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
% International Leadership	16.84	Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
Principal Investigator	0	Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project.
Associations Founded	0	Number of associations founded by the author.
Societies Founded	0	Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author.
Foundations Founded	0	Number of research-related foundations established by the author.
Councils	0	Number of councils founded by author.

Cooperation

Authors/Paper	5.39	Average number of authors per document.
% Highly Authored Papers	0.0	Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors.
Countries/Paper	1.6	Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document.
Docs International Collaboration	52	Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line.
% International Collaboration	54.74	Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line.

Community Support

Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Peer Review Counts	0	Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications.
Society Membership	0	Number of societies of wich the author is a member.
Society Memberships	0	Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies.
Editorial Board Memberships	0	Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board.
Panelists	0	Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls.

Community Recognition

Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Distinctions	0	Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career.
Invitations	0	Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations.
Talks	0	Number of times the author has been invited to talks.
Professorships	0	Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips.
Commissioned Reports	0	Commissioned reports done by the author.

Interaction with society

Openness

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Open Access Documents	53	Number of documents in Open Access mode.
% Open Access Documents	55.79	Percentage of documents in Open Access mode.
Open Access Gold	13	Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ.
Open Access Green	24	Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository.
Open Access Hybrid	11	Free under an open license in a toll-access journal.
Open Access Bronze	2	Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license.
Open Access Closed	42	Non Open Access documents.

Transference

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Patents	0	Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Advisory Boards	0	Number of advisory boards of which the author is member.
Companies	0	Number of companies created or founded by the author.

Fundraising

Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

Funding Counts	12	Number of activities reported as funding recieved.
ERC Grantees	0	Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council.

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Dearn, Karl D PhD

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Total documents

Normalized Impact

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

International Collab. (%)

Most cited publications

Main coauthors

The perfect present for a young Researcher!

Dimensions One by One

Activity

Activity

Available data

All documents *

Citable documents

Documents / year

Books

Document type

Academic output

Last 5 years

All documents

Citable documents

Documents / year

Books

Impact

Impact

Citations

Relative Citation Index

Journal Relative Citation Index

H Index

Normalized Impact

% Documents above & below the reference

Impact on Open Access (OA) vs. PayWalled documents

Self-citations

Self Citation Rate (%)

Non Self Citation Rate (%)

Trending papers

Excellence

Excellence

Highly Cited Paper (Top 10%, HCP)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1%, OP)

Relative number of HCP (RHCP)

Relative number of OP (ROP)

Citation percentile: from 0 to 100

Citation percentile: from 99 to 100

Highly Cited Papers (Top 10% cited)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1% cited)

Leadership

Leadership

Publications lead

Correspondence author

First author

Last author

Publications lead per year

Subset publications

Available data

Cooperation

Cooperation

Collaboration

International collaboration

Avg. Authors / publication

Avg. Countries / publication

Docs highly authored

Employments

Educations

Openness

Openness

Available data

OA documents

Community Support

Community Support

Available data

Community Recognition

Community Recognition

Available data

Transference

Transference

Available data

Fundraising

Fundraising

Dearn, Karl D ^PhD

All documents ^*

Relative number of OP
(ROP)