The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ralph C. Smith sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 330 publications — 81st percentile
81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ralph C. Smith sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 35 D-Index — 10th percentile
10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.
Ralph C. Smith is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within engineering, with a primary focus on uncertainty quantification and materials science. The scientist's work covers topics such as probabilistic and robust engineering design, nuclear reactor physics and engineering, model reduction and neural networks, radiation detection and scintillator technologies, machine learning in materials science, computational drug discovery methods, and protein structure and dynamics.
Their main fields of study include engineering with significant contributions to aerospace engineering, statistics, probability and uncertainty, computational theory and mathematics, statistical and nonlinear physics, and computational mechanics. These areas reflect a broad interdisciplinary approach integrating computational and statistical methodologies with applied engineering problems.
Ralph C. Smith has published several recent papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference venues, including:
The scientist's frequent co-authors include Mansoor A. Haider, Paul Miles, Alyson G. Wilson, William S. Oates, and Jared A. Cook. Their collaborative efforts are documented across multiple publications, indicating ongoing partnerships in research projects.
Ralph C. Smith's publication record features repeated contributions to venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Nuclear Technology, and Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.
In addition to articles, the scientist has authored a book published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Uncertainty Quantification: Theory, Implementation, and Applications, Second Edition (2024), which has been cited in various works in the field.
Recognition of their work includes the SIAM Fellow award in 2018, granted for contributions to uncertainty quantification and materials science.
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