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Researcher · University of Johannesburg · South Africa

Bruce Cairncross

Bruce Cairncross publishes mostly in Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics and Earth-Surface Processes, on topics such as Mineralogy and Gemology Studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

ORCID 0000-0001-7135-3995 OpenAlex
World rank
#440,949
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,281
of 5,570
Works
29
Citations
62
Citations per work
2.1

What does Bruce Cairncross research?

Geochemistry and Petrology: 16.0%Geophysics: 12.0%Earth-Surface Processes: 8.0%Archeology: 8.0%other fields: 56.0%16%top field
Geochemistry and Petrology16.0%Geophysics12.0%Earth-Surface Processes8.0%Archeology8.0%other fields56.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Geochemistry and Petrology16% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics12% of their works
  3. 3Earth-Surface Processes8% of their works
  4. 4Archeology8% of their works
  5. 5Geology8% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bruce Cairncross's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tectonics, Gemstones, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Zircon, Archaeology, Fluvial Systems and Machine Learning.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Tectonics52 topics
  2. Gemstones31 topic
  3. Geochemistry31 topic
  4. Geochronology31 topic
  5. Zircon31 topic
  6. Archaeology21 topic
  7. Fluvial Systems21 topic
  8. Machine Learning21 topic
  9. Mineral Prospectivity21 topic
  10. Sedimentation21 topic
  11. Southern Africa21 topic
  12. Angiosperm Phylogeny11 topic
  13. Climate Change11 topic
  14. Flowering Plants11 topic
  15. Geomagnetic Field11 topic
  16. Magnetosome Formation11 topic
  17. Paleoclimatology11 topic

Where does Bruce Cairncross work?

Bruce Cairncross's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Bruce Cairncross have?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 62 citations for Bruce Cairncross, ranking #440,949 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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