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Researcher · Geoscience Australia · Australia

C.B. Foster

C.B. Foster publishes mostly in Paleontology, Geology and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geophysical Studies and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

ORCID 0000-0001-6054-6601 OpenAlex
World rank
#589,250
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#20,223
of 140,210
Works
80
Citations
2.6k
Citations per work
33.1
h-index
28
i10-index 49Top 12% in Paleontology
C.B. Foster

What does C.B. Foster research?

C.B. Foster's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (55%), Engineering (12%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Physical Sciences: 56 works · 70.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 44 works · 55.0% of their workPaleontology: 23 works · 28.8% of their workGeology: 18 works · 22.1% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 4.1% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 12.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 10 works · 12.2% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 3.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 24.6% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 5.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 5.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKC.B. Foster80works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences70%

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 Sciences4455.0%
    2. Engineering1012.2%
    3. Computer Science33.2%
  2. Everything else2024.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences45.0%
  1. 1Paleontology29% of their works
  2. 2Geology22% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials12% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science4% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe C.B. Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Continental Margin, Crustal Structure, Cenozoic Evolution, Plate Tectonics, Pore Structure and Shale Gas.

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. Paleoproductivity501 topic
  2. Paleoredox501 topic
  3. Continental Margin492 topics
  4. Crustal Structure492 topics
  5. Cenozoic Evolution361 topic
  6. Plate Tectonics361 topic
  7. Pore Structure271 topic
  8. Shale Gas271 topic
  9. Arctic131 topic
  10. geology131 topic
  11. Angiosperm Phylogeny111 topic
  12. Flowering Plants111 topic
  13. Climate Change91 topic
  14. Paleoclimatology91 topic
  15. Dinosaur81 topic
  16. Evolution81 topic
  17. Machine Learning71 topic
  18. Mineral Prospectivity71 topic

Where does C.B. Foster work?

C.B. Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is Geoscience Australia, Australia.

How many publications and citations does C.B. Foster have?

OpenAlex counts 80 works and 2,644 citations for C.B. Foster, an h-index of 28, ranking #589,250 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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