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Researcher · Oak Ridge National Laboratory · United States

Alan J. Witten

Alan J. Witten publishes mostly in Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Geophysical Methods and Applications, Seismic Waves and Analysis and Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,813,970
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,435,009
of 1,627,098
Works
91
Citations
706
Citations per work
7.8
h-index
16
i10-index 23Top 31% in Geophysics
Alan J. Witten

What does Alan J. Witten research?

Alan J. Witten's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (35%), Engineering (30%), Environmental Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 63 works · 69.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 32 works · 34.8% of their workGeophysics: 32 works · 34.8% of their workEngineering: 27 works · 29.7% of their workOcean Engineering: 20 works · 22.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 4 works · 4.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 3.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 4.7% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 26.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 4.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 4.0% of their workArcheology: 4 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan J. Witten91works
Physical Sciences69%Social Sciences4%

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 Sciences3234.8%
    2. Engineering2729.7%
    3. Environmental Science44.7%
  2. Everything else2426.8%
    1. Arts and Humanities44.0%
  1. 1Geophysics35% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering22% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering5% of their works
  4. 4Archeology4% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan J. Witten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ground-Penetrating Radar, Sedimentology, Seismic Noise, Tomography, Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Magnetotelluric Imaging, Full-Waveform Tomography and Seismic Waveform Inversion.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Ground-Penetrating Radar551 topic
  2. Sedimentology551 topic
  3. Seismic Noise341 topic
  4. Tomography341 topic
  5. Electrical Resistivity Tomography291 topic
  6. Magnetotelluric Imaging291 topic
  7. Full-Waveform Tomography241 topic
  8. Seismic Waveform Inversion241 topic
  9. Breast Cancer Detection71 topic
  10. Microwave Imaging71 topic
  11. Arabia51 topic
  12. Byzantine51 topic
  13. Electrical Impedance Tomography51 topic
  14. Groundwater Flow51 topic
  15. Image Reconstruction Algorithms51 topic
  16. Transport Modeling51 topic

Where does Alan J. Witten work?

Alan J. Witten's main affiliation in the publication record is Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan J. Witten have?

OpenAlex counts 91 works and 706 citations for Alan J. Witten, an h-index of 16, ranking #5,813,970 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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