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Researcher · Institut Français · France

Alan Zaitoun

Alan Zaitoun publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis and Drilling and Well Engineering.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,271,254
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#58,179
of 324,115
Works
69
Citations
2k
Citations per work
28.9
h-index
26
i10-index 46Top 4.9% in Ocean Engineering
Alan Zaitoun

What does Alan Zaitoun research?

Alan Zaitoun's work is mostly in Engineering (70%), Environmental Science (4%), Chemical Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 55 works · 79.4% of their workEngineering: 48 works · 69.9% of their workOcean Engineering: 30 works · 44.1% of their workMechanical Engineering: 14 works · 20.8% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 5.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 3.5% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 works · 3.5% of their workChemical Engineering: 2 works · 3.0% of their workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 2 works · 3.0% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 3.0% of their workBiomaterials: 2 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 20.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan Zaitoun69works
Physical Sciences79%

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. Engineering4869.9%
    2. Environmental Science23.5%
    3. Chemical Engineering23.0%
    4. Materials Science23.0%
  2. Everything else1420.6%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering44% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering21% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials5% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Biomaterials3% of their works
  6. 6Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Zaitoun's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pore-scale Modeling, X-ray Computed Tomography, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Drilling Fluids, Well Integrity, Ensemble Kalman Filter and Optimization.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Pore-scale Modeling531 topic
  2. X-ray Computed Tomography531 topic
  3. Hydraulic Fracturing411 topic
  4. Shale Gas Reservoirs411 topic
  5. Drilling Fluids161 topic
  6. Well Integrity161 topic
  7. Ensemble Kalman Filter121 topic
  8. Optimization121 topic
  9. Pore Structure101 topic
  10. Shale Gas101 topic
  11. Artificial Lift Systems81 topic
  12. Fault Diagnosis81 topic
  13. Groundwater Flow71 topic
  14. Transport Modeling71 topic
  15. Complex Fluids61 topic
  16. Rheology61 topic

Where does Alan Zaitoun work?

Alan Zaitoun's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut Français, France.

How many publications and citations does Alan Zaitoun have?

OpenAlex counts 69 works and 1,994 citations for Alan Zaitoun, an h-index of 26, ranking #1,271,254 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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