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Researcher · Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory · United States

Dennis V. Kent

Dennis V. Kent publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Geophysics and Paleontology, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-7677-2993 OpenAlex
World rank
#107,632
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#41,090
of 1,627,098
Works
543
Citations
37k
Citations per work
67.9
h-index
92
i10-index 295Top 0.4% in Atmospheric Science
Dennis V. Kent

What does Dennis V. Kent research?

Dennis V. Kent's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (64%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%).

Physical Sciences: 349 works · 64.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 349 works · 64.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 112 works · 20.7% of their workGeophysics: 92 works · 16.9% of their workPaleontology: 87 works · 16.1% of their workGeology: 37 works · 6.8% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 20 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 113 works · 20.8% of their workLife Sciences: 81 works · 15.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 81 works · 15.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 81 works · 15.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDennis V. Kent543works
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences64%

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 Sciences34964.2%
  2. Everything else11320.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8115.0%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science21% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics17% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology16% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology15% of their works
  5. 5Geology7% of their works
  6. 6Earth-Surface Processes4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dennis V. Kent's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Tectonics, Plate Tectonics, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetosome Formation, Geochronology and Zircon.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change2911 topic
  2. Paleoclimatology2911 topic
  3. Tectonics2433 topics
  4. Plate Tectonics2272 topics
  5. Geomagnetic Field2121 topic
  6. Magnetosome Formation2121 topic
  7. Geochronology1621 topic
  8. Zircon1621 topic
  9. Paleoproductivity1501 topic
  10. Paleoredox1501 topic
  11. Continental Margin962 topics
  12. Crustal Structure962 topics
  13. Cenozoic Evolution651 topic
  14. Rifting651 topic
  15. Fluvial Systems501 topic
  16. Sedimentation501 topic
  17. Mammal Evolution431 topic
  18. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis431 topic
  19. Arctic311 topic
  20. geology311 topic

Where does Dennis V. Kent work?

Dennis V. Kent's main affiliation in the publication record is Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Dennis V. Kent have?

OpenAlex counts 543 works and 36,863 citations for Dennis V. Kent, an h-index of 92, ranking #107,632 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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