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Researcher · IFP Énergies nouvelles · France

Alain Prinzhofer

Alain Prinzhofer publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Chemistry and Geophysics, on topics such as Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0001-7392-9302 OpenAlex
World rank
#188,381
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#12,395
of 324,115
Works
105
Citations
5.4k
Citations per work
51.3
h-index
41
i10-index 50Top 2.3% in Mechanics of Materials
Alain Prinzhofer

What does Alain Prinzhofer research?

Alain Prinzhofer's work is mostly in Environmental Science (27%), Engineering (19%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (18%).

Physical Sciences: 74 works · 70.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 28 works · 26.8% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 19 works · 18.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 works · 8.5% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 19.4% of their workMechanics of Materials: 20 works · 19.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 works · 18.0% of their workGeophysics: 15 works · 14.1% of their workGeology: 4 works · 3.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 works · 6.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 6 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 29.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAlain Prinzhofer105works
Physical Sciences70%

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. Environmental Science2826.8%
    2. Engineering2019.4%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences1918.0%
    4. Physics and Astronomy66.0%
  2. Everything else3129.8%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials19% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Chemistry18% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics14% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works
  6. 6Geology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alain Prinzhofer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Shale Gas, Mudstones, Pore Structure, Anaerobic, Methane Oxidation, Plate Tectonics, Emissions and Methane.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Shale Gas762 topics
  2. Mudstones541 topic
  3. Pore Structure541 topic
  4. Anaerobic521 topic
  5. Methane Oxidation521 topic
  6. Plate Tectonics242 topics
  7. Emissions221 topic
  8. Methane221 topic
  9. Geochronology141 topic
  10. Zircon141 topic
  11. Earthquakes121 topic
  12. Subduction121 topic
  13. CO2 Sequestration101 topic
  14. Cenozoic Evolution101 topic
  15. Geological Storage101 topic
  16. Machine Learning101 topic
  17. Mineral Prospectivity101 topic
  18. Rifting101 topic

Where does Alain Prinzhofer work?

Alain Prinzhofer's main affiliation in the publication record is IFP Énergies nouvelles, France.

How many publications and citations does Alain Prinzhofer have?

OpenAlex counts 105 works and 5,391 citations for Alain Prinzhofer, an h-index of 41, ranking #188,381 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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