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Researcher · Botswana Geoscience Institute · Botswana

Aftab Alam

Aftab Alam publishes mostly in Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis and Seismic Waves and Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-6020-9290 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,440,344
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Botswana
#775
of 859
Works
18
Citations
35
Citations per work
1.9
h-index
4
i10-index 0Top 94% in Geophysics
Aftab Alam

What does Aftab Alam research?

Aftab Alam's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (33%), Engineering (33%), Computer Science (6%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 77.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 32.7% of their workGeophysics: 6 works · 32.7% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 32.7% of their workOcean Engineering: 3 works · 18.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 2 works · 10.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 1 works · 4.1% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 6.1% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 6.1% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 6.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 22.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAftab Alam18works
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 Sciences632.7%
    2. Engineering632.7%
    3. Computer Science16.1%
    4. Materials Science16.1%
  2. Everything else422.4%
  1. 1Geophysics33% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Aftab Alam's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Optimization, Seismic Noise and Tomography.

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. Full-Waveform Tomography121 topic
  2. Seismic Waveform Inversion121 topic
  3. Hydraulic Fracturing51 topic
  4. Shale Gas Reservoirs51 topic
  5. Ensemble Kalman Filter41 topic
  6. Optimization41 topic
  7. Seismic Noise41 topic
  8. Tomography41 topic
  9. Drilling Fluids31 topic
  10. Well Integrity31 topic
  11. Geological Modeling21 topic
  12. Ground-Penetrating Radar21 topic
  13. Pore Structure21 topic
  14. Sedimentology21 topic
  15. Shale Gas21 topic
  16. Uncertainty Analysis21 topic

Where does Aftab Alam work?

Aftab Alam's main affiliation in the publication record is Botswana Geoscience Institute, Botswana.

How many publications and citations does Aftab Alam have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 35 citations for Aftab Alam, an h-index of 4, ranking #6,440,344 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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