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Researcher · Coventry University · United Kingdom

Alastair G. Dawson

Alastair G. Dawson publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Geophysics, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes and earthquake and tectonic studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-4220-9921 OpenAlex
World rank
#513,268
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#44,562
of 367,258
Works
153
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
32.2
h-index
36
i10-index 75Top 10% in Atmospheric Science
Alastair G. Dawson

What does Alastair G. Dawson research?

Alastair G. Dawson's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (67%), Arts and Humanities (5%), Environmental Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 109 works · 71.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 103 works · 67.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 47 works · 30.9% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 26 works · 17.1% of their workGeophysics: 19 works · 12.5% of their workOceanography: 10 works · 6.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 3.9% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 23.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 5.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 5.2% of their workArcheology: 8 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKAlastair G.Dawson153works
Physical Sciences71%Social Sciences5%

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 Sciences10367.3%
    2. Environmental Science63.9%
  2. Everything else3623.6%
    1. Arts and Humanities85.2%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science31% of their works
  2. 2Earth-Surface Processes17% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics12% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography7% of their works
  5. 5Archeology5% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair G. Dawson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Holocene, Climate Change, Glacial Cycles, Paleoclimatology, Fluvial Systems, Sedimentation, Geodetic Measurements and Earthquakes.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Holocene1132 topics
  2. Climate Change1052 topics
  3. Glacial Cycles961 topic
  4. Paleoclimatology961 topic
  5. Fluvial Systems491 topic
  6. Sedimentation491 topic
  7. Geodetic Measurements472 topics
  8. Earthquakes381 topic
  9. Subduction381 topic
  10. Maritime Archaeology171 topic
  11. Mediterranean171 topic
  12. Coastal Dynamics121 topic
  13. Sea-Level Rise121 topic
  14. Anaerobic111 topic
  15. Methane Oxidation111 topic
  16. Agricultural Origins101 topic
  17. Radiocarbon Dating101 topic
  18. GRACE91 topic
  19. Sea Level Rise91 topic

Where does Alastair G. Dawson work?

Alastair G. Dawson's main affiliation in the publication record is Coventry University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alastair G. Dawson have?

OpenAlex counts 153 works and 4,923 citations for Alastair G. Dawson, an h-index of 36, ranking #513,268 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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