Carl McBride

Dr. Carl McBride Ellis, PhD  is a research scientist who until September 2018 was working at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Spain. He now works as a private sector Data Scientist.

Carl is the founder of SklogWiki; a wiki for the thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and computer simulation of materials, community. In 2009, McBride presented a paper detailing an important metric to assess importance of a wiki site, naming it wikiFactor (wF).


 * ''Institutions
 * University of Bath, Bath, England, 1990 to 1993 – BSc. Physics (Department of Physics)
 * University of Salford, Salford, England, 1993 to 1995 – MSc. Computational Physics (Department of Physics)
 * Durham University, Durham, England, 1996 to 1999 – PhD Computer Simulation of Liquid Crystals
 * Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 2005 to 2008
 * Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2008 to 2013
 * Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), 2013 to 2018


 * ''Selected publications
 * McBride, Carl (February 2009); wikiFactor: a measure of the importance of a wiki site; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; eprint arXiv:0902.3439.


 * ''References


 * ''External links
 * home page
 * ORCID iD (CC0)
 * Carl McBride's articles on arXiv
 * Web of Science ResearcherID – A-7896-2008
 * Google Scholar ID
 * Scopus Author ID 56224746400
 * kaggle page