John Orr

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

John Orr is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Orr has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Building and Construction, 51 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Orr's work include Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials (37 papers), Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (27 papers) and Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (21 papers). John Orr is often cited by papers focused on Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials (37 papers), Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (27 papers) and Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (21 papers). John Orr collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. John Orr's co-authors include Tim Ibell, Paul Shepherd, Purnanand Savoikar, Richard Ball, Will Hawkins, Antony Darby, Mark Evernden, Saverio Spadea, William P. Boshoff and Michał Drewniok and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

John Orr

84 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A state-of-the-art review on the application of auxetic materials in cementitious composites

2024 62 citations Mohammad Hajsadeghi, Raffaele Vinai et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Orr United Kingdom	23	924	806	239	195	176	93	1.4k
Danièle Waldmann Luxembourg	26	1.1k 1.1×	987 1.2×	417 1.7×	226 1.2×	108 0.6×	105	2.0k
Brabha Nagaratnam United Kingdom	19	679 0.7×	852 1.1×	61 0.3×	111 0.6×	87 0.5×	51	1.1k
Ben Mou China	22	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	190 0.8×	147 0.8×	194 1.1×	85	1.9k
Lepeng Huang China	22	662 0.7×	865 1.1×	99 0.4×	154 0.8×	135 0.8×	40	1.4k
Mark Evernden United Kingdom	15	520 0.6×	533 0.7×	210 0.9×	161 0.8×	39 0.2×	78	959
Tim Ibell United Kingdom	24	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	45 0.2×	81 0.4×	247 1.4×	155	1.6k
Hongyu Zhou United States	23	830 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	121 0.5×	275 1.4×	72 0.4×	69	1.8k
Keerthan Poologanathan United Kingdom	26	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	408 1.7×	200 1.0×	41 0.2×	117	1.8k
Aleksandrs Korjakins Latvia	23	838 0.9×	861 1.1×	99 0.4×	291 1.5×	108 0.6×	134	1.6k
Allan Manalo Australia	25	1.6k 1.8×	1.7k 2.1×	509 2.1×	586 3.0×	75 0.4×	77	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by John Orr

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Orr

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Orr

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Orr. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Orr 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 John Orr. John Orr is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hajsadeghi, Mohammad, et al.. (2025). Compressive behaviour of mortar panels reinforced with polymeric auxetic lattices: Experimental testing and numerical modelling. Construction and Building Materials. 503. 144585–144585.

Hajsadeghi, Mohammad, et al.. (2025). Design and construction of concrete shells using semi-flexible auxetic grids as formwork. Structures. 80. 109833–109833. 1 indexed citations

Shepherd, Paul, Sukumar Natarajan, John Orr, et al.. (2024). Improving the shelter design process via a shelter assessment matrix. Progress in Disaster Science. 23. 100354–100354. 5 indexed citations

Hajsadeghi, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Construction, testing, and analysis of a shape-optimised concrete beam with stay-in-place CFRP textile formwork. Sustainable materials and technologies. 43. e01201–e01201.

Racić, Vitomir, et al.. (2022). Fourier Series Approximation of Vertical Walking Force-Time History through Frequentist and Bayesian Inference. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(4). 883–913. 5 indexed citations

Orr, John, et al.. (2022). Minimising embodied carbon in reinforced concrete flat slabs through parametric design. Journal of Building Engineering. 50. 104136–104136. 27 indexed citations

Orr, John, et al.. (2022). Comparing different strategies of minimising embodied carbon in concrete floors. Journal of Cleaner Production. 345. 131177–131177. 38 indexed citations

Guthrie, Peter, et al.. (2022). Redefining shelter: humanitarian sheltering. Disasters. 47(2). 482–498. 10 indexed citations

Orr, John, et al.. (2021). Comparing the embodied carbon and cost of concrete floor solutions. Journal of Cleaner Production. 324. 129268–129268. 21 indexed citations

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Yang, Yuanzhang, Jiangpeng Shu, Wei‐Jiang Zhao, & John Orr. (2021). Shear design method for non-prismatic concrete beams reinforced using W-FRP. Structures. 30. 667–677. 1 indexed citations

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Orr, John, et al.. (2021). A Path Towards Off-site Automated Fabrication of Segmented Concrete Shells as Building Floors. 752. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Yuanzhang, John Orr, & Tim Ibell. (2020). Shear behaviour of fabric formed T beams reinforced using W-FRP. Structures. 24. 869–879. 7 indexed citations

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Spadea, Saverio, et al.. (2020). Automated Framework for the Optimisation of Spatial Layouts for Concrete Structures Reinforced with Robotic Filament Winding. Proceedings of the ... ISARC. 4 indexed citations

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Williamson, David, et al.. (2018). Biogas Dome Construction Using Pneumatics. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 22(2). 35–53. 1 indexed citations

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Orr, John, et al.. (2018). Minimising energy in construction: Practitioners’ views on material efficiency. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 140. 125–136. 60 indexed citations

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Yang, Yuanzhang, John Orr, Tim Ibell, & Antony Darby. (2015). Shear strength theories for beams of variable depth. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 4 indexed citations

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Orr, John, et al.. (2015). Birmingham Gateway: structural assessment and strengthening. Structural Concrete. 16(4). 458–469. 2 indexed citations

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Orr, John, Antony Darby, Tim Ibell, & Mark Evernden. (2014). Performance based design of low-carbon concrete structures using flexible formwork. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 1 indexed citations

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Orr, John, Mark Evernden, Antony Darby, & Tim Ibell. (2012). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Flexible Formwork. Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database. 13 indexed citations

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Orr, John, Antony Darby, Tim Ibell, & Mark Evernden. (2012). Fabric formwork for ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete structures. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 3 indexed citations

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