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Researcher · Arizona Geological Survey · United States

Francis S. Riley

Francis S. Riley publishes mostly in Geophysics, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies and Water Quality and Resources Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,194,977
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#908,144
of 1,627,098
Works
20
Citations
565
Citations per work
28.3
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 69% in Geophysics
Francis S. Riley

What does Francis S. Riley research?

Francis S. Riley's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (34%), Environmental Science (20%), Engineering (7%).

Physical Sciences: 12 works · 61.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 works · 34.1% of their workGeophysics: 5 works · 22.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 2 works · 11.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 20.5% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 works · 11.4% of their workWater Science and Technology: 2 works · 9.1% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 6.8% of their workOcean Engineering: 1 works · 6.8% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 34.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 4.5% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 4.5% of their workSurgery: 1 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancis S. Riley20works
Physical Sciences61%Health Sciences4%

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 Sciences734.1%
    2. Environmental Science420.5%
    3. Engineering16.8%
  2. Everything else734.1%
    1. Medicine14.5%
  1. 1Geophysics23% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science11% of their works
  4. 4Water Science and Technology9% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Surgery4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francis S. Riley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tomography, Climate Change, Earthquakes, Hydrogeology, Paleoclimatology, Subduction and Water Quality.

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. Plate Tectonics42 topics
  2. Tomography42 topics
  3. Climate Change31 topic
  4. Earthquakes31 topic
  5. Hydrogeology31 topic
  6. Paleoclimatology31 topic
  7. Subduction31 topic
  8. Water Quality31 topic
  9. Crystal Structure Prediction21 topic
  10. Geochronology21 topic
  11. Groundwater Flow21 topic
  12. Hydraulic Fracturing21 topic
  13. Mantle Dynamics21 topic
  14. Seismic Noise21 topic
  15. Shale Gas Reservoirs21 topic
  16. Surface Wave21 topic
  17. Transport Modeling21 topic
  18. Zircon21 topic

Where does Francis S. Riley work?

Francis S. Riley's main affiliation in the publication record is Arizona Geological Survey, United States.

How many publications and citations does Francis S. Riley have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 565 citations for Francis S. Riley, an h-index of 8, ranking #3,194,977 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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