Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · Shell (United States) · United States

Alvin W. Chan

Alvin W. Chan publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering and Rock Mechanics and Modeling.

ORCID 0000-0001-5709-8166 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,419,414
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,180,524
of 1,627,098
Works
18
Citations
324
Citations per work
18.0
h-index
8
i10-index 6Top 54% in Ocean Engineering
Alvin W. Chan

What does Alvin W. Chan research?

Alvin W. Chan's work is mostly in Engineering (76%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 90.0% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 76.0% of their workOcean Engineering: 5 works · 28.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 5 works · 26.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 18.0% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 14.0% of their workGeophysics: 2 works · 10.0% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 10.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAlvin W. Chan18works
Physical Sciences90%

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. Engineering1476.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences314.0%
  2. Everything else210.0%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering28% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering26% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials18% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics10% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Geochemistry and Petrology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alvin W. Chan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Drilling Fluids, Well Integrity, Rock Mechanics, Acoustic Emission, Ensemble Kalman Filter and Fracture.

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. Hydraulic Fracturing111 topic
  2. Shale Gas Reservoirs111 topic
  3. Drilling Fluids91 topic
  4. Well Integrity91 topic
  5. Rock Mechanics72 topics
  6. Acoustic Emission41 topic
  7. Ensemble Kalman Filter41 topic
  8. Fracture41 topic
  9. Optimization41 topic
  10. Earthquakes31 topic
  11. Seismicity31 topic
  12. Subduction31 topic
  13. Wave Propagation31 topic
  14. Full-Waveform Tomography21 topic
  15. Geological Modeling21 topic
  16. Seismic Waveform Inversion21 topic
  17. Uncertainty Analysis21 topic

Where does Alvin W. Chan work?

Alvin W. Chan's main affiliation in the publication record is Shell (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Alvin W. Chan have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 324 citations for Alvin W. Chan, an h-index of 8, ranking #4,419,414 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Alvin W. Chan. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.