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Randolph Kirchain

Randolph Kirchain

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
44
Citations
7730
World Ranking
5799
National Ranking
1624

Randolph Kirchain publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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 Randolph Kirchain sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 206 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Randolph Kirchain D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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 Randolph Kirchain sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Randolph Kirchain is affiliated with MIT in the United States, where their research predominantly spans the fields of engineering and environmental science. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including civil and structural engineering, environmental engineering, building and construction, automotive engineering, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation
  • Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
  • Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
  • Concrete and Cement Materials Research
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment

Randolph Kirchain has contributed to multiple high-profile publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Concrete Pavements
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Applied Energy
  • Building and Environment

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Randolph Kirchain include:

  • "Perspectives on Cobalt Supply through 2030 in the Face of Changing Demand," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Improvements in electric vehicle battery technology influence vehicle lightweighting and material substitution decisions," 2020, Applied Energy
  • "What is the potential for prefabricated buildings to decrease costs and contribute to meeting EU environmental targets?", 2021, Building and Environment
  • "Towards comparable environmental product declarations of construction materials: Insights from a probabilistic comparative LCA approach," 2020, Building and Environment
  • "An integrated model for quantifying the impacts of pavement albedo and urban morphology on building energy demand," 2020, Energy and Buildings

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Kirchain's research, with frequent co-authors including Jeremy Gregory, Hessam AzariJafari, Elizabeth A. Moore, Elsa Olivetti, and Fengdi Guo.

Best Publications

  • Evaluating rare earth element availability: a case with revolutionary demand from clean technologies

    Elisa Alonso;Andrew M. Sherman;Timothy J. Wallington;Mark P. Everson

  • A roadmap for nanophotonics

    Randolph Kirchain;Lionel Kimerling

  • Improving aluminum recycling: A survey of sorting and impurity removal technologies

    Gabrielle Gaustad;Elsa Olivetti;Randolph Kirchain

  • Strategic Materials Selection In The Automobile Body: Economic Opportunities for Polymer Composite Design

    Erica R.H. Fuchs;Frank R. Field;Richard Roth;Randolph E. Kirchain

  • Material Availability and the Supply Chain: Risks, Effects, and Responses

    Elisa Alonso;Jeremy Gregory;Frank Field;Randolph Kirchain

  • Perspectives on Cobalt Supply through 2030 in the Face of Changing Demand.

    Xinkai Fu;Danielle N. Beatty;Gabrielle G. Gaustad;Gerbrand Ceder

  • End-of-life LCA allocation methods: Open loop recycling impacts on robustness of material selection decisions

    Anna L. Nicholson;Elsa A. Olivetti;Jeremy R. Gregory;Frank R. Field

  • Design for Recycling

    Gabrielle Gaustad;Elsa Olivetti;Randolph Kirchain

  • Design for Location? The Impact of Manufacturing Offshore on Technology Competitiveness in the Optoelectronics Industry

    Erica Fuchs;Randolph Kirchain

  • Process cost modeling: Strategic engineering and economic evaluation of materials technologies

    Frank Field;Randolph Kirchain;Richard Roth

  • Improvements in electric vehicle battery technology influence vehicle lightweighting and material substitution decisions

    Joshua Thomas Jameson Burd;Elizabeth A. Moore;Hesham Ezzat;Randolph Kirchain

  • Comparative pavement life cycle assessment with parameter uncertainty

    Arash Noshadravan;Margaret Wildnauer;Jeremy Gregory;Randolph Kirchain

  • Life‐Cycle Assessment and Temporal Distributions of Emissions: Developing a Fleet‐Based Analysis

    Frank Field;Randolph Kirchain;Joel Clark

  • Platinum Availability for Future Automotive Technologies

    Elisa Alonso;Frank R. Field;Randolph E. Kirchain

  • Environmental life-cycle assessment.

    Randolph E. Kirchain;Jeremy R. Gregory;Elsa A. Olivetti

  • A Methodology for Robust Comparative Life Cycle Assessments Incorporating Uncertainty

    Jeremy R. Gregory;Arash Noshadravan;Elsa A. Olivetti;Randolph E. Kirchain

  • Cost of quality: Evaluating cost-quality trade-offs for inspection strategies of manufacturing processes

    Muhammad Arsalan Farooq;Randolph Kirchain;Henriqueta Novoa;Antonio Araujo

  • Process-Based Cost Modeling: Understanding the Economics of Technical Decisions

    Randolph Kirchain;Frank R. Field

  • Manufacturing-focused emissions reductions in footwear production

    Lynette Cheah;Natalia Duque Ciceri;Elsa Olivetti;Seiko Matsumura

  • Regional Heterogeneity in the Emissions Benefits of Electrified and Lightweighted Light-Duty Vehicles.

    Di Wu;Fengdi Guo;Frank R. Field;Robert D. De Kleine

  • Quantifying the effects of parts consolidation and development costs on material selection decisions: A process-based costing approach

    Michael Johnson;Randolph Kirchain

  • Process-based cost modeling of photonics manufacture: the cost competitiveness of monolithic integration of a 1550-nm DFB laser and an electroabsorptive modulator on an InP platform

    E.R.H. Fuchs;E.J. Bruce;R.J. Ram;R.E. Kirchain

  • Evaluation and Efficient Alloy Modification

    Gabrielle Gaustad;Elsa Olivetti;Randolph Kirchain

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J. Wallington
Timothy J. Wallington Ford Motor Company (United States)
Fausto Freire
Fausto Freire University of Coimbra
Luis C. Dias
Luis C. Dias University of Coimbra
Bart Blanpain
Bart Blanpain KU Leuven
Diran Apelian
Diran Apelian University of California, Irvine
Markus A. Reuter
Markus A. Reuter Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Peter Hosemann
Peter Hosemann University of California, Berkeley
Animesh Jha
Animesh Jha University of Leeds

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