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Researcher · GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences · Germany

Brian Horsfield

Brian Horsfield publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Analytical Chemistry and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Petroleum Processing and Analysis and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-3896-2964 OpenAlex
World rank
#136,326
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#7,071
of 364,343
Works
386
Citations
14k
Citations per work
35.0
h-index
66
i10-index 202Top 0.3% in Mechanics of Materials
Brian Horsfield

What does Brian Horsfield research?

Brian Horsfield's work is mostly in Engineering (34%), Environmental Science (17%), Chemistry (12%).

Physical Sciences: 282 works · 73.1% of their workEngineering: 132 works · 34.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 108 works · 28.0% of their workOcean Engineering: 24 works · 6.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 67 works · 17.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 36 works · 9.3% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 31 works · 8.0% of their workChemistry: 47 works · 12.3% of their workAnalytical Chemistry: 47 works · 12.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 36 works · 9.3% of their workGeology: 36 works · 9.3% of their workEverything else: 104 works · 26.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBrian Horsfield386works
Physical Sciences73%

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. Engineering13234.2%
    2. Environmental Science6717.3%
    3. Chemistry4712.3%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences369.3%
  2. Everything else10426.9%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials28% of their works
  2. 2Analytical Chemistry12% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change9% of their works
  4. 4Geology9% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry8% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian Horsfield's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Shale Gas, Mudstones, Pore Structure, Petroleum, Hydraulic Fracturing, Asphaltenes, Naphthenic Acids and Continental Margin.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Shale Gas3832 topics
  2. Mudstones2871 topic
  3. Pore Structure2871 topic
  4. Petroleum1922 topics
  5. Hydraulic Fracturing1312 topics
  6. Asphaltenes1261 topic
  7. Naphthenic Acids1261 topic
  8. Continental Margin962 topics
  9. Crustal Structure962 topics
  10. Emissions961 topic
  11. Methane961 topic
  12. Anaerobic831 topic
  13. Methane Oxidation831 topic
  14. Arctic661 topic
  15. geology661 topic
  16. Fracture Propagation351 topic
  17. Shale Gas Reservoirs351 topic
  18. Machine Learning321 topic
  19. Mineral Prospectivity321 topic
  20. Cenozoic Evolution301 topic
  21. Plate Tectonics301 topic

Where does Brian Horsfield work?

Brian Horsfield's main affiliation in the publication record is GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Brian Horsfield have?

OpenAlex counts 386 works and 13,501 citations for Brian Horsfield, an h-index of 66, ranking #136,326 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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