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David R. Ely

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2006

Publications

28

Citations

1,531

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

19

Publishing since 2006

Research summary
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David R. Ely's publicly listed publications span two rather different areas: pharmaceutical materials science (studying how solid drugs dissolve and release, including modeling of particle dissolution) and engineering education (studying how community college and diverse student populations engage with engineering training). The listed OpenAlex topic scores for battery and materials science are all effectively zero, suggesting they are not strongly represented in this record. Prospective students should note the small and mixed publication record makes it hard to characterize a single consistent research focus from this data alone.

Drug dissolution and release mechanismsPharmaceutical materials modelingEngineering education researchCommunity college student engagementMultidisciplinary team-based learning

Publication output has been low and irregular over the last decade, with several zero-output years and no more than two papers in any single year.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.6/year recently
17182019: 1 publication192020: 1 publication202021: 1 publication212022: 1 publication22232024: 2 publications2242526
Publishes in
  • Pharmaceutics×1
  • Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences×1
  • Molecular Pharmaceutics×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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