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Researcher · Utah State University · United States

Alvin R. Southard

Alvin R. Southard publishes mostly in Biomaterials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Soil and Unsaturated Flow and Clay minerals and soil interactions.

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World rank
#6,844,639
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,560,958
of 1,627,098
Works
16
Citations
104
Citations per work
6.5
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 92% in Biomaterials
Alvin R. Southard

What does Alvin R. Southard research?

Alvin R. Southard's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%), Environmental Science (17%), Engineering (14%).

Physical Sciences: 11 works · 66.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 21.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 2 works · 14.3% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 works · 7.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 16.6% of their workEcology: 2 works · 9.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 works · 7.1% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 14.3% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 works · 14.3% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 14.3% of their workBiomaterials: 2 works · 14.3% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 33.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAlvin R. Southard16works
Physical Sciences67%

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 Sciences321.4%
    2. Environmental Science316.6%
    3. Engineering214.3%
    4. Materials Science214.3%
  2. Everything else533.4%
  1. 1Biomaterials14% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering14% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science14% of their works
  4. 4Ecology10% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change7% of their works
  6. 6Earth-Surface Processes7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alvin R. Southard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Clay Nanotubes, Glacial Cycles, Halloysite, Paleoclimatology, Soil Hydraulic Properties, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Ecosystem.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change102 topics
  2. Clay Nanotubes61 topic
  3. Glacial Cycles61 topic
  4. Halloysite61 topic
  5. Paleoclimatology61 topic
  6. Soil Hydraulic Properties61 topic
  7. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics61 topic
  8. Ecosystem41 topic
  9. Land Cover41 topic
  10. Fluvial Systems21 topic
  11. Sedimentation21 topic
  12. Taxonomy22 topics
  13. Brassicaceae11 topic
  14. DNA Barcoding11 topic
  15. Earthworms11 topic
  16. Grazing Management11 topic
  17. Perennial Pastures11 topic
  18. Phylogeny11 topic

Where does Alvin R. Southard work?

Alvin R. Southard's main affiliation in the publication record is Utah State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alvin R. Southard have?

OpenAlex counts 16 works and 104 citations for Alvin R. Southard, an h-index of 6, ranking #6,844,639 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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