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Researcher · Matador (Slovakia) · Slovakia

Bill McLain

Bill McLain publishes mostly in Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,642,679
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Slovakia
#2,637
of 12,450
Works
15
Citations
347
Citations per work
23.1
h-index
8
i10-index 6Top 69% in Geophysics
Bill McLain

What does Bill McLain research?

Bill McLain's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (35%), Engineering (32%).

Physical Sciences: 10 works · 67.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 34.9% of their workGeophysics: 3 works · 20.9% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 works · 7.0% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 works · 7.0% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 32.5% of their workMechanical Engineering: 2 works · 11.6% of their workOcean Engineering: 2 works · 11.6% of their workMechanics of Materials: 1 works · 9.3% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 32.6% of their workTHEIR WORKBill McLain15works
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 Sciences534.9%
    2. Engineering532.5%
  2. Everything else532.6%
  1. 1Geophysics21% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials9% of their works
  5. 5Geochemistry and Petrology7% of their works
  6. 6Earth-Surface Processes7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bill McLain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Pore Structure, Shale Gas, Drilling Fluids and Geological Modeling.

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. Full-Waveform Tomography61 topic
  2. Seismic Waveform Inversion61 topic
  3. Hydraulic Fracturing51 topic
  4. Shale Gas Reservoirs51 topic
  5. Pore Structure41 topic
  6. Shale Gas41 topic
  7. Drilling Fluids31 topic
  8. Geological Modeling31 topic
  9. Uncertainty Analysis31 topic
  10. Well Integrity31 topic
  11. Acoustic Techniques21 topic
  12. Fluvial Systems21 topic
  13. Seafloor Mapping21 topic
  14. Sedimentation21 topic
  15. Seismic Noise21 topic
  16. Tomography21 topic

Where does Bill McLain work?

Bill McLain's main affiliation in the publication record is Matador (Slovakia), Slovakia.

How many publications and citations does Bill McLain have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 347 citations for Bill McLain, an h-index of 8, ranking #3,642,679 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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