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Researcher · Institut Français · France

Alain Zaitoun

Alain 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 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,325,879
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#140,459
of 324,115
Works
48
Citations
963
Citations per work
20.1
h-index
15
i10-index 21Top 19% in Ocean Engineering
Alain Zaitoun

What does Alain Zaitoun research?

Alain Zaitoun's work is mostly in Engineering (80%), Chemistry (4%), Materials Science (2%).

Physical Sciences: 42 works · 88.3% of their workEngineering: 39 works · 80.3% of their workOcean Engineering: 25 works · 51.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 12 works · 24.6% of their workMechanics of Materials: 2 works · 4.3% of their workChemistry: 2 works · 3.6% of their workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 works · 3.6% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 2.2% of their workBiomaterials: 1 works · 2.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 2.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 11.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlain Zaitoun48works
Physical Sciences88%

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. Engineering3980.3%
    2. Chemistry23.6%
    3. Materials Science12.2%
    4. Physics and Astronomy12.2%
  2. Everything else611.7%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering51% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering25% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials4% of their works
  4. 4Analytical Chemistry4% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Biomaterials2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alain Zaitoun's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Porous Media, Pore-scale Modeling, X-ray Computed Tomography, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Optimization and Artificial Lift Systems.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Porous Media422 topics
  2. Pore-scale Modeling391 topic
  3. X-ray Computed Tomography391 topic
  4. Hydraulic Fracturing331 topic
  5. Shale Gas Reservoirs331 topic
  6. Ensemble Kalman Filter201 topic
  7. Optimization201 topic
  8. Artificial Lift Systems61 topic
  9. Drilling Fluids61 topic
  10. Fault Diagnosis61 topic
  11. Pore Structure61 topic
  12. Shale Gas61 topic
  13. Well Integrity61 topic
  14. Asphaltenes51 topic
  15. Petroleum51 topic
  16. Diffusion31 topic
  17. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance31 topic

Where does Alain Zaitoun work?

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

How many publications and citations does Alain Zaitoun have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 963 citations for Alain Zaitoun, an h-index of 15, ranking #3,325,879 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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