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Researcher · Planetary Science Institute · United States

Francis A. Macdonald

Francis A. Macdonald publishes mostly in Paleontology, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0001-8416-4894 OpenAlex
World rank
#135,764
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#51,458
of 1,627,098
Works
343
Citations
12k
Citations per work
34.4
h-index
59
i10-index 130Top 0.8% in Paleontology
Francis A. Macdonald

What does Francis A. Macdonald research?

Francis A. Macdonald's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (69%), Environmental Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 249 works · 72.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 236 works · 68.7% of their workPaleontology: 67 works · 19.6% of their workGeophysics: 64 works · 18.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 58 works · 17.0% of their workGeology: 32 works · 9.4% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 14 works · 4.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 13 works · 3.9% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 13 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 94 works · 27.4% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancis A.Macdonald343works
Physical Sciences73%

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 Sciences23668.7%
    2. Environmental Science133.9%
  2. Everything else9427.4%
  1. 1Paleontology20% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics19% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science17% of their works
  4. 4Geology9% of their works
  5. 5Geochemistry and Petrology4% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francis A. Macdonald's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tectonics, Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Plate Tectonics, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, 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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Tectonics1752 topics
  2. Paleoproductivity1541 topic
  3. Paleoredox1541 topic
  4. Plate Tectonics1522 topics
  5. Climate Change1361 topic
  6. Paleoclimatology1361 topic
  7. Geochronology1241 topic
  8. Zircon1241 topic
  9. Continental Margin792 topics
  10. Crustal Structure792 topics
  11. Arctic511 topic
  12. geology511 topic
  13. Anaerobic321 topic
  14. Methane Oxidation321 topic
  15. Machine Learning301 topic
  16. Mineral Prospectivity301 topic
  17. Cenozoic Evolution281 topic
  18. Rifting281 topic
  19. Manganese Oxides261 topic
  20. Rare Earth Elements261 topic

Where does Francis A. Macdonald work?

Francis A. Macdonald's main affiliation in the publication record is Planetary Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Francis A. Macdonald have?

OpenAlex counts 343 works and 11,804 citations for Francis A. Macdonald, an h-index of 59, ranking #135,764 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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