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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

David Twist

David Twist publishes mostly in Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Earth-Surface Processes, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and Geological formations and processes.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,772,185
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#11,895
of 29,826
Works
15
Citations
515
Citations per work
34.3
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 62% in Geophysics
David Twist

What does David Twist research?

David Twist's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (60%), Computer Science (18%).

Physical Sciences: 12 works · 77.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 works · 60.1% of their workGeophysics: 4 works · 28.9% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 works · 8.9% of their workGeology: 1 works · 8.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 6.7% of their workPaleontology: 1 works · 6.7% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 17.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 17.8% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 22.1% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Twist15works
Physical Sciences78%

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 Sciences960.1%
    2. Computer Science317.8%
  2. Everything else322.1%
  1. 1Geophysics29% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence18% of their works
  3. 3Earth-Surface Processes9% of their works
  4. 4Geology9% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science7% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Twist's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tectonics, Plate Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Machine Learning, Mineral Prospectivity, Fluvial Systems and Sedimentation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Tectonics173 topics
  2. Plate Tectonics122 topics
  3. Geochronology101 topic
  4. Zircon101 topic
  5. Machine Learning81 topic
  6. Mineral Prospectivity81 topic
  7. Fluvial Systems41 topic
  8. Sedimentation41 topic
  9. Arctic31 topic
  10. Climate Change31 topic
  11. Paleoclimatology31 topic
  12. Paleoproductivity31 topic
  13. Paleoredox31 topic
  14. geology31 topic
  15. Actinides21 topic
  16. Crystal Structure Prediction21 topic
  17. Mantle Dynamics21 topic
  18. Uranium21 topic

Where does David Twist work?

David Twist's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does David Twist have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 515 citations for David Twist, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,772,185 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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