Christopher Hall

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
120 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher Hall is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Earth-Surface Processes and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Hall has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 41 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 37 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Christopher Hall's work include Building materials and conservation (41 papers), Hygrothermal properties of building materials (34 papers) and Concrete and Cement Materials Research (28 papers). Christopher Hall is often cited by papers focused on Building materials and conservation (41 papers), Hygrothermal properties of building materials (34 papers) and Concrete and Cement Materials Research (28 papers). Christopher Hall collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Christopher Hall's co-authors include William D. Hoff, Andrea Hamilton, Nicola Meller, Moira Wilson, Andrea Hamilton, R. J. Gummerson, Konstantinos Kyritsis, Andrew C. Jupe, P. Barnes and Jørgen Skibsted and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Hall

119 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Water sorptivity of morta... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1989 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Water sorptivity of mortars and concretes: a review
    1989 665 citations Christopher Hall profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Christopher Hall 3.3k 1.8k 1.6k 1.0k 756 120 6.1k
L. Pel 1.9k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 1.4k 0.9× 434 0.4× 433 0.6× 169 4.5k
William D. Hoff 1.1k 0.3× 691 0.4× 811 0.5× 161 0.2× 330 0.4× 60 2.2k
Sidney Diamond 7.0k 2.1× 2.1k 1.2× 890 0.6× 1.8k 1.8× 506 0.7× 183 8.5k
Henk Huinink 566 0.2× 462 0.3× 686 0.4× 1.2k 1.2× 149 0.2× 172 4.1k
Encarnación Ruíz-Agudo 1.2k 0.4× 412 0.2× 1.8k 1.1× 993 1.0× 1.3k 1.7× 112 6.0k
Stéṕhane Gin 1.6k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 1.7k 1.1× 5.4k 5.3× 649 0.9× 197 8.7k
Carlos Rodríguez‐Navarro 2.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 5.2k 3.2× 1.2k 1.2× 2.0k 2.6× 151 9.6k
Alessandro F. Gualtieri 1.2k 0.4× 1.4k 0.8× 583 0.4× 2.4k 2.3× 205 0.3× 228 7.1k
Richard A. Livingston 2.5k 0.8× 659 0.4× 433 0.3× 1.1k 1.0× 233 0.3× 103 3.2k
Michael Steiger 943 0.3× 363 0.2× 1.6k 1.0× 416 0.4× 263 0.3× 74 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Hall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Hall

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Hall. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Hall based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher Hall. Christopher Hall is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hamilton, Andrea, et al.. (2024). Clean-up of divalent cobalt ions by massive sequestration in a low-cost calcium silicate hydrate material. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7052–7052. 1 indexed citations
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Hall, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Water vapour permeability of inorganic construction materials. Materials and Structures. 57(2). 4 indexed citations
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Hall, Christopher, et al.. (2022). Measuring water vapour permeability using remote-reading humidity sensors. Measurement Science and Technology. 34(2). 27004–27004. 2 indexed citations
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Hall, Christopher. (2019). Capillary imbibition in cement-based materials with time-dependent permeability. Cement and Concrete Research. 124. 105835–105835. 54 indexed citations
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Feng, Chi, Ana Sofia Guimarães, Nuno Ramos, et al.. (2019). A round robin campaign on the hygric properties of porous building materials. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 282. 2011–2011. 2 indexed citations
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Hall, Christopher & Andrea Hamilton. (2016). Porosities of building limestones: using the solid density to assess data quality. Materials and Structures. 49(10). 3969–3979. 29 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Andrea, Vasileios Koutsos, & Christopher Hall. (2010). Direct measurement of salt–mineral repulsion using atomic force microscopy. Chemical Communications. 46(29). 5235–5235. 13 indexed citations
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Kyritsis, Konstantinos, Christopher Hall, Dale P. Bentz, Nicola Meller, & Moira Wilson. (2009). Relationship Between Engineering Properties, Mineralogy, and Microstructure in Cement‐Based Hydroceramic Materials Cured at 200°–350°C. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 92(3). 694–701. 15 indexed citations
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Wilson, Moira, et al.. (2008). Mass Gain due to the Chemical Recombination of Water in Fired Clay Brick. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 91(10). 3396–3398. 19 indexed citations
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Hall, Christopher & Andrea Hamilton. (2008). The heptahydrate of sodium sulfate: Does it have a role in terrestrial and planetary geochemistry?. Icarus. 198(1). 277–279. 19 indexed citations
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Meller, Nicola, Christopher Hall, Konstantinos Kyritsis, & G. Giriat. (2007). Synthesis of cement based CaO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O (CASH) hydroceramics at 200 and 250 °C: Ex-situ and in-situ diffraction. Cement and Concrete Research. 37(6). 823–833. 45 indexed citations
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Robinet, Laurianne, Claude Coupry, Katherine Eremin, & Christopher Hall. (2006). The use of Raman spectrometry to predict the stability of historic glasses. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. 37(7). 789–797. 92 indexed citations
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Ioannou, Ioannis, et al.. (2005). Synchrotron radiation energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction analysis of salt distribution in Lépine limestone. The Analyst. 130(7). 1006–1006. 11 indexed citations
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Hall, Christopher, et al.. (2005). Flow properties of freshly prepared ettringite suspensions in water at 25 °C. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 294(2). 466–472. 15 indexed citations
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Marica, Florea, et al.. (2005). Spatially resolved measurement of rock core porosity. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 178(1). 136–141. 42 indexed citations
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Ioannou, Ioannis, William D. Hoff, & Christopher Hall. (2004). On the role of organic adlayers in the anomalous water sorptivity of Lépine limestone. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 279(1). 228–234. 26 indexed citations
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Wilson, Moira, et al.. (2003). Kinetics of Moisture Expansion in Fired Clay Ceramics: A(Time)1/4Law. Physical Review Letters. 90(12). 125503–125503. 53 indexed citations
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Colston, Sally L., Simon D. M. Jacques, P. Barnes, Andrew C. Jupe, & Christopher Hall. (1998). In-Situ Hydration Studies Using Multi-Angle Energy-Dispersive Diffraction. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 5(2). 112–117. 23 indexed citations
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Wilson, Moira, William D. Hoff, & Christopher Hall. (1991). Water movement in porous building materials—X. Absorption from a small cylindrical cavity. Building and Environment. 26(2). 143–152. 19 indexed citations
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Hall, Christopher. (1981). Polymer Materials. 24 indexed citations

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