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Researcher · Wesleyan University · United States

Ellen Thomas

Ellen Thomas publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Paleontology, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

ORCID 0000-0002-7141-9904 OpenAlex
World rank
#198,840
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#73,846
of 1,627,098
Works
545
Citations
29k
Citations per work
54.0
h-index
74
i10-index 175Top 1% in Atmospheric Science
Ellen Thomas

What does Ellen Thomas research?

Ellen Thomas's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (63%), Environmental Science (15%).

Physical Sciences: 425 works · 78.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 343 works · 62.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 143 works · 26.2% of their workOceanography: 108 works · 19.9% of their workPaleontology: 74 works · 13.5% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 18 works · 3.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 82 works · 15.1% of their workEcology: 63 works · 11.5% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 20 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 120 works · 22.0% of their workTHEIR WORKEllen Thomas545works
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 Sciences34362.9%
    2. Environmental Science8215.1%
  2. Everything else12022.0%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science26% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography20% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology14% of their works
  4. 4Ecology12% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Earth-Surface Processes3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ellen Thomas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Holocene, Sea Level, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Ecosystem Functioning, Marine Biodiversity, Paleoproductivity and Paleoredox.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Holocene2812 topics
  2. Sea Level2812 topics
  3. Climate Change2531 topic
  4. Paleoclimatology2531 topic
  5. Ecosystem Functioning1081 topic
  6. Marine Biodiversity1081 topic
  7. Paleoproductivity1081 topic
  8. Paleoredox1081 topic
  9. Stable Isotopes941 topic
  10. Trophic Position941 topic
  11. Sedimentation552 topics
  12. Anaerobic361 topic
  13. Methane Oxidation361 topic
  14. Black Sea281 topic
  15. paleoceanography281 topic
  16. Fluvial Systems271 topic
  17. Marine Organisms271 topic
  18. Ocean Acidification271 topic
  19. Sequence Stratigraphy271 topic

Where does Ellen Thomas work?

Ellen Thomas's main affiliation in the publication record is Wesleyan University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ellen Thomas have?

OpenAlex counts 545 works and 29,411 citations for Ellen Thomas, an h-index of 74, ranking #198,840 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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