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Fanus Viljoen

Fanus Viljoen publishes mostly in Geophysics, Mechanical Engineering and Geology, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials and earthquake and tectonic studies.

World rank
#391,508
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,103
of 5,570
Works
26
Citations
166
Citations per work
6.4

What does Fanus Viljoen research?

Geophysics: 53.3%Mechanical Engineering: 10.0%Geology: 10.0%Biomedical Engineering: 6.7%other fields: 20.0%53%top field
Geophysics53.3%Mechanical Engineering10.0%Geology10.0%Biomedical Engineering6.7%other fields20.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Geophysics53% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering10% of their works
  3. 3Geology10% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence7% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fanus Viljoen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Crystal Structure Prediction, Mantle Dynamics, Metal Recovery, Earthquakes and Subduction.

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. Plate Tectonics153 topics
  2. Geochronology81 topic
  3. Zircon81 topic
  4. Crystal Structure Prediction51 topic
  5. Mantle Dynamics51 topic
  6. Metal Recovery42 topics
  7. Earthquakes31 topic
  8. Subduction31 topic
  9. Battery Recycling21 topic
  10. Bioleaching21 topic
  11. Cenozoic Evolution21 topic
  12. Lithium-ion Batteries21 topic
  13. Machine Learning21 topic
  14. Microbial Communities21 topic
  15. Mineral Prospectivity21 topic
  16. Rifting21 topic
  17. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  18. Terrestrial Planets21 topic

Where does Fanus Viljoen work?

Fanus Viljoen's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Fanus Viljoen have?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 166 citations for Fanus Viljoen, ranking #391,508 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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