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Researcher · Petro-Canada · Canada

A. J. Tankard

A. J. Tankard publishes mostly in Geology, Earth-Surface Processes and Geophysics, on topics such as Geological formations and processes, Geological Studies and Exploration and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,009,323
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#34,493
of 183,316
Works
73
Citations
5k
Citations per work
68.1
h-index
26
i10-index 32Top 2.9% in Geology
A. J. Tankard

What does A. J. Tankard research?

A. J. Tankard's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (69%), Engineering (9%).

Physical Sciences: 57 works · 77.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 50 works · 69.1% of their workGeology: 16 works · 22.5% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 13 works · 18.1% of their workGeophysics: 13 works · 17.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 4 works · 6.0% of their workPaleontology: 4 works · 4.9% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 8.8% of their workMechanics of Materials: 6 works · 8.8% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 22.1% of their workTHEIR WORKA. J. Tankard73works
Physical Sciences78%

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 Sciences5069.1%
    2. Engineering68.8%
  2. Everything else1622.1%
  1. 1Geology22% of their works
  2. 2Earth-Surface Processes18% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics18% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials9% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe A. J. Tankard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tectonics, Continental Margin, Crustal Structure, Fluvial Systems, Sedimentation, Plate Tectonics, Arctic and geology.

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. Tectonics753 topics
  2. Continental Margin412 topics
  3. Crustal Structure412 topics
  4. Fluvial Systems331 topic
  5. Sedimentation331 topic
  6. Plate Tectonics312 topics
  7. Arctic261 topic
  8. geology261 topic
  9. Geochronology161 topic
  10. Pore Structure161 topic
  11. Shale Gas161 topic
  12. Zircon161 topic
  13. Cenozoic Evolution151 topic
  14. Rifting151 topic
  15. Climate Change111 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology111 topic
  17. Andean Geodynamics91 topic
  18. Caribbean Plate Boundary91 topic
  19. Machine Learning81 topic
  20. Mineral Prospectivity81 topic

Where does A. J. Tankard work?

A. J. Tankard's main affiliation in the publication record is Petro-Canada, Canada.

How many publications and citations does A. J. Tankard have?

OpenAlex counts 73 works and 4,972 citations for A. J. Tankard, an h-index of 26, ranking #1,009,323 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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