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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Allan H. Wilson

Allan H. Wilson publishes mostly in Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

ORCID 0000-0002-0267-2236 OpenAlex
World rank
#242,089
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#866
of 29,826
Works
160
Citations
5.8k
Citations per work
36.2
h-index
46
i10-index 100Top 3% in Geophysics
Allan H. Wilson

What does Allan H. Wilson research?

Allan H. Wilson's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (60%), Computer Science (15%), Physics and Astronomy (2%).

Physical Sciences: 123 works · 77.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 95 works · 59.5% of their workGeophysics: 68 works · 42.8% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 9 works · 5.9% of their workGeology: 9 works · 5.6% of their workPaleontology: 8 works · 5.2% of their workComputer Science: 24 works · 15.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 24 works · 15.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 2.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 22.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAllan H. Wilson160works
Physical Sciences77%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences9559.5%
    2. Computer Science2415.3%
    3. Physics and Astronomy42.3%
  2. Everything else3722.9%
  1. 1Geophysics43% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence15% of their works
  3. 3Geochemistry and Petrology6% of their works
  4. 4Geology6% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology5% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Allan H. Wilson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Machine Learning, Mineral Prospectivity, Crystal Structure Prediction and Mantle Dynamics.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Plate Tectonics1763 topics
  2. Tectonics1212 topics
  3. Geochronology1121 topic
  4. Zircon1121 topic
  5. Machine Learning681 topic
  6. Mineral Prospectivity681 topic
  7. Crystal Structure Prediction481 topic
  8. Mantle Dynamics481 topic
  9. Continental Margin252 topics
  10. Crustal Structure252 topics
  11. Earthquakes251 topic
  12. Subduction251 topic
  13. Paleoproductivity231 topic
  14. Paleoredox231 topic
  15. Manganese Oxides211 topic
  16. Rare Earth Elements211 topic
  17. Cenozoic Evolution161 topic
  18. Rifting161 topic
  19. Arctic91 topic
  20. geology91 topic

Where does Allan H. Wilson work?

Allan H. Wilson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Allan H. Wilson have?

OpenAlex counts 160 works and 5,792 citations for Allan H. Wilson, an h-index of 46, ranking #242,089 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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