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Researcher · Geoscience Australia · Australia

Alison Kirkby

Alison Kirkby publishes mostly in Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Ocean Engineering, on topics such as Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and Geophysical Methods and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0003-1361-440X OpenAlex
World rank
#2,120,572
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#61,681
of 140,210
Works
54
Citations
457
Citations per work
8.5
h-index
10
i10-index 11Top 56% in Geophysics
Alison Kirkby

What does Alison Kirkby research?

Alison Kirkby's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (61%), Engineering (15%), Computer Science (12%).

Physical Sciences: 49 works · 90.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 33 works · 60.8% of their workGeophysics: 29 works · 53.1% of their workGeology: 4 works · 7.7% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 14.7% of their workOcean Engineering: 6 works · 11.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 2 works · 3.5% of their workComputer Science: 6 works · 11.9% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 6 works · 11.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 3.5% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 9.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAlison Kirkby54works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Sciences3360.8%
    2. Engineering814.7%
    3. Computer Science611.9%
    4. Environmental Science23.5%
  2. Everything else59.1%
  1. 1Geophysics53% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence12% of their works
  3. 3Ocean Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Geology8% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alison Kirkby's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Magnetotelluric Imaging, Plate Tectonics, Machine Learning, Mineral Prospectivity, Ground-Penetrating Radar, Sedimentology and Cenozoic Evolution.

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. Electrical Resistivity Tomography421 topic
  2. Magnetotelluric Imaging421 topic
  3. Plate Tectonics212 topics
  4. Machine Learning151 topic
  5. Mineral Prospectivity151 topic
  6. Ground-Penetrating Radar131 topic
  7. Sedimentology131 topic
  8. Cenozoic Evolution111 topic
  9. Rifting111 topic
  10. Geochronology101 topic
  11. Zircon101 topic
  12. Full-Waveform Tomography91 topic
  13. Seismic Noise91 topic
  14. Seismic Waveform Inversion91 topic
  15. Tomography91 topic
  16. Geomagnetic Field51 topic
  17. Magnetosome Formation51 topic

Where does Alison Kirkby work?

Alison Kirkby's main affiliation in the publication record is Geoscience Australia, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Alison Kirkby have?

OpenAlex counts 54 works and 457 citations for Alison Kirkby, an h-index of 10, ranking #2,120,572 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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