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Researcher · Wrexham County Borough Museum & Archives · United Kingdom

Douglas W. Nichol

Douglas W. Nichol publishes mostly in Geochemistry and Petrology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Landslides and related hazards, Rock Mechanics and Modeling and Geological formations and processes.

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World rank
#5,719,236
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#327,470
of 367,258
Works
40
Citations
256
Citations per work
6.4
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 59% in Geochemistry and Petrology
Douglas W. Nichol

What does Douglas W. Nichol research?

Douglas W. Nichol's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (30%), Engineering (18%), Environmental Science (14%).

Physical Sciences: 25 works · 62.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 works · 30.4% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 6 works · 15.2% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 4 works · 9.1% of their workAtmospheric Science: 2 works · 6.1% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 18.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 4 works · 10.1% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 works · 8.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 14.1% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 works · 14.1% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 37.3% of their workTHEIR WORKDouglas W. Nichol40works
Physical Sciences63%

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 Sciences1230.4%
    2. Engineering718.2%
    3. Environmental Science614.1%
  2. Everything else1537.3%
  1. 1Geochemistry and Petrology15% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law14% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes9% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas W. Nichol's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: GIS-based Modeling, Hazard, Landslide, Soil Properties, Fracture, Rock Mechanics, Fluvial Systems and Gemstones.

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. GIS-based Modeling212 topics
  2. Hazard141 topic
  3. Landslide141 topic
  4. Soil Properties102 topics
  5. Fracture81 topic
  6. Rock Mechanics81 topic
  7. Fluvial Systems71 topic
  8. Gemstones71 topic
  9. Geochemistry71 topic
  10. Geological Modeling71 topic
  11. Sedimentation71 topic
  12. Uncertainty Analysis71 topic
  13. Geotechnical Engineering51 topic
  14. Road Construction51 topic
  15. Slope Stability Analysis51 topic
  16. Spatial Variability51 topic
  17. Ground-Penetrating Radar41 topic
  18. Sedimentology41 topic

Where does Douglas W. Nichol work?

Douglas W. Nichol's main affiliation in the publication record is Wrexham County Borough Museum & Archives, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Douglas W. Nichol have?

OpenAlex counts 40 works and 256 citations for Douglas W. Nichol, an h-index of 9, ranking #5,719,236 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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