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Researcher · University of Maryland, College Park · United States

Alan Jay Kaufman

Alan Jay Kaufman publishes mostly in Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Geophysics, on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0003-4129-6445 OpenAlex
World rank
#46,574
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,961
of 1,627,098
Works
301
Citations
24k
Citations per work
79.1
h-index
78
i10-index 134Top 0.2% in Paleontology
Alan Jay Kaufman

What does Alan Jay Kaufman research?

Alan Jay Kaufman's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (64%), Environmental Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 212 works · 70.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 192 works · 63.7% of their workPaleontology: 78 works · 25.8% of their workAtmospheric Science: 42 works · 13.9% of their workGeophysics: 29 works · 9.8% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 27 works · 9.0% of their workGeology: 16 works · 5.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 20 works · 6.6% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 20 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 89 works · 29.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan Jay Kaufman301works
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. Earth and Planetary Sciences19263.7%
    2. Environmental Science206.6%
  2. Everything else8929.7%
  1. 1Paleontology26% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science14% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics10% of their works
  4. 4Geochemistry and Petrology9% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry7% of their works
  6. 6Geology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Jay Kaufman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon and Manganese Oxides.

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. Paleoproductivity1651 topic
  2. Paleoredox1651 topic
  3. Climate Change921 topic
  4. Paleoclimatology921 topic
  5. Tectonics852 topics
  6. Geochronology631 topic
  7. Zircon631 topic
  8. Manganese Oxides501 topic
  9. Rare Earth Elements501 topic
  10. Anaerobic471 topic
  11. Methane Oxidation471 topic
  12. Pore Structure351 topic
  13. Shale Gas351 topic
  14. Stable Isotopes271 topic
  15. Trophic Position271 topic
  16. Arctic221 topic
  17. geology221 topic

Where does Alan Jay Kaufman work?

Alan Jay Kaufman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Maryland, College Park, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan Jay Kaufman have?

OpenAlex counts 301 works and 23,818 citations for Alan Jay Kaufman, an h-index of 78, ranking #46,574 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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