Wes McGee

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Wes McGee is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Architecture and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wes McGee has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Building and Construction, 10 papers in Architecture and 8 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Wes McGee's work include Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials (26 papers), BIM and Construction Integration (13 papers) and Architecture and Computational Design (10 papers). Wes McGee is often cited by papers focused on Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials (26 papers), BIM and Construction Integration (13 papers) and Architecture and Computational Design (10 papers). Wes McGee collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Wes McGee's co-authors include Vineet R. Kamat, Victor C. Li, Carol C. Menassa, Kequan Yu, Tsz Yan Ng, He Zhu, Ci‐Jyun Liang, Gideon van Zijl, Freek Bos and Venkatesh Naidu Nerella and has published in prestigious journals such as Cement and Concrete Research, Cement and Concrete Composites and Automation in Construction.

In The Last Decade

Wes McGee

32 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

On the emergence of 3D printable Engineered, Strain Harde... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. On the emergence of 3D printable Engineered, Strain Hardening Cementitious Composites (ECC/SHCC)
    2020 256 citations Victor C. Li, Wes McGee et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wes McGee United States 15 808 431 306 146 145 34 1.1k
Kathrin Dörfler Germany 13 519 0.6× 79 0.2× 286 0.9× 165 1.1× 87 0.6× 32 666
Ali Kazemian United States 16 1.1k 1.4× 569 1.3× 773 2.5× 174 1.2× 94 0.6× 36 1.5k
Roberto Naboni Denmark 12 357 0.4× 52 0.1× 173 0.6× 164 1.1× 76 0.5× 43 513
Ena Lloret‐Fritschi Switzerland 13 1.0k 1.2× 336 0.8× 728 2.4× 124 0.8× 37 0.3× 30 1.1k
Norman Hack Germany 20 1.8k 2.2× 538 1.2× 1.3k 4.3× 246 1.7× 58 0.4× 41 1.9k
Tom Van Mele Switzerland 22 634 0.8× 675 1.6× 188 0.6× 244 1.7× 53 0.4× 81 1.2k
Gavin Paul Australia 17 379 0.5× 193 0.4× 397 1.3× 207 1.4× 111 0.8× 76 989
Romain Mesnil France 17 586 0.7× 231 0.5× 368 1.2× 117 0.8× 54 0.4× 50 780
Alper Kanyilmaz Italy 18 361 0.4× 628 1.5× 117 0.4× 165 1.1× 62 0.4× 62 900

Countries citing papers authored by Wes McGee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wes McGee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wes McGee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wes McGee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wes McGee 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 Wes McGee. Wes McGee 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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Wang, Xi, et al.. (2024). Enabling Building Information Model-driven human-robot collaborative construction workflows with closed-loop digital twins. Computers in Industry. 161. 104112–104112. 14 indexed citations
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McGee, Wes, et al.. (2023). Reducing Uncertainty in Multi-Robot Construction through Perception Modelling and Adaptive Fabrication. Proceedings of the ... ISARC. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Wen, Wes McGee, H. Süleyman Gökçe, & Victor C. Li. (2023). A bio-inspired solution to alleviate anisotropy of 3D printed engineered cementitious composites (3DP-ECC): Knitting/tilting filaments. Automation in Construction. 155. 105051–105051. 27 indexed citations
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Zhou, Wen, Wes McGee, He Zhu, H. Süleyman Gökçe, & Victor C. Li. (2022). Time-dependent fresh properties characterization of 3D printing engineered cementitious composites (3DP-ECC): On the evaluation of buildability. Cement and Concrete Composites. 133. 104704–104704. 34 indexed citations
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Liang, Ci‐Jyun, Vineet R. Kamat, Carol C. Menassa, & Wes McGee. (2021). Trajectory-Based Skill Learning for Overhead Construction Robots Using Generalized Cylinders with Orientation. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 36(2). 11 indexed citations
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McGee, Wes, et al.. (2021). Robotic Pellet Extrusion: 3D Printing and Integral Computational Design. ACADIA quarterly. 410–419. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Ci‐Jyun, Wes McGee, Carol C. Menassa, & Vineet R. Kamat. (2020). Bi-Directional Communication Bridge for State Synchronization between Digital Twin Simulations and Physical Construction Robots. Proceedings of the ... ISARC. 22 indexed citations
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Liang, Ci‐Jyun, et al.. (2019). Fast Dataset Collection Approach for Articulated Equipment Pose Estimation. 146–152. 7 indexed citations
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Liang, Ci‐Jyun, et al.. (2019). A vision-based marker-less pose estimation system for articulated construction robots. Automation in Construction. 104. 80–94. 86 indexed citations
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Kamat, Vineet R., et al.. (2019). Autonomous motion planning and task execution in geometrically adaptive robotized construction work. Automation in Construction. 100. 24–45. 54 indexed citations
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McGee, Wes, et al.. (2018). Recovering Cannibalism in Architecture with a Return to Cyclopean Masonry. Nexus Network Journal. 20(3). 583–604. 13 indexed citations
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Kamat, Vineet R., et al.. (2018). Adaptive Perception and Modeling for Robotized Construction Joint Filling. Proceedings of the ... ISARC. 2 indexed citations
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McGee, Wes, et al.. (2018). Cyclopean Cannibalism. A method for recycling rubble. ACADIA quarterly. 5 indexed citations
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McGee, Wes. (2017). Prototyping for Architects. 1(2). 247–248. 10 indexed citations
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Feng, Chen, et al.. (2015). Vision guided autonomous robotic assembly and as-built scanning on unstructured construction sites. Automation in Construction. 59. 128–138. 107 indexed citations
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McGee, Wes, et al.. (2012). Soundspheres. 348–357. 8 indexed citations
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McGee, Wes, et al.. (2012). Design Ecologies for Responsive Environments: Resonant Chamber, an Acoustically Performative System". ACADIA quarterly. 373–382. 1 indexed citations
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McGee, Wes, et al.. (2012). Soundspheres: Resonant Chamber. Leonardo. 45(4). 348–357. 10 indexed citations

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