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Researcher · Terra · Netherlands

Alan D. Black

Alan D. Black publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,872,997
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#41,119
of 107,149
Works
49
Citations
845
Citations per work
17.2
h-index
14
i10-index 21Top 21% in Ocean Engineering
Alan D. Black

What does Alan D. Black research?

Alan D. Black's work is mostly in Engineering (90%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%), Environmental Science (1%).

Physical Sciences: 46 works · 94.5% of their workEngineering: 44 works · 89.7% of their workOcean Engineering: 18 works · 36.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 11 works · 22.6% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 10 works · 20.5% of their workMechanics of Materials: 5 works · 10.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 3.4% of their workGeophysics: 2 works · 3.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 1.4% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 works · 1.4% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan D. Black49works
Physical Sciences94%

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. Engineering4489.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences23.4%
    3. Environmental Science11.4%
  2. Everything else35.5%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering36% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering23% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering20% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics3% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan D. Black's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drilling Fluids, Well Integrity, Machine Learning, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Performance Prediction, TBM and Rock Mechanics.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Drilling Fluids371 topic
  2. Well Integrity371 topic
  3. Machine Learning332 topics
  4. Hydraulic Fracturing291 topic
  5. Shale Gas Reservoirs291 topic
  6. Performance Prediction241 topic
  7. TBM241 topic
  8. Rock Mechanics122 topics
  9. Acoustic Emission91 topic
  10. Artificial Lift Systems91 topic
  11. Fault Diagnosis91 topic
  12. Fracture91 topic
  13. Ensemble Kalman Filter51 topic
  14. Optimization51 topic
  15. Grouting41 topic
  16. Tunnel41 topic
  17. Seismicity31 topic
  18. Wave Propagation31 topic

Where does Alan D. Black work?

Alan D. Black's main affiliation in the publication record is Terra, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Alan D. Black have?

OpenAlex counts 49 works and 845 citations for Alan D. Black, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,872,997 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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