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Frank Niessen

Frank Niessen publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Geology, on topics such as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Geological Studies and Exploration.

World rank
#70,413
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#4,704
of 86,443
Works
68
Citations
421
Citations per work
6.2

What does Frank Niessen research?

Atmospheric Science: 27.3%Environmental Chemistry: 23.4%Geology: 20.8%Mechanics of Materials: 7.8%other fields: 20.7%27%top field
Atmospheric Science27.3%Environmental Chemistry23.4%Geology20.8%Mechanics of Materials7.8%other fields20.7%

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

  1. 1Atmospheric Science27% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Chemistry23% of their works
  3. 3Geology21% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials8% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes4% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frank Niessen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Anaerobic, Methane Oxidation, Arctic, Tectonics, Continental Margin, Crustal Structure and geology.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change213 topics
  2. Anaerobic181 topic
  3. Methane Oxidation181 topic
  4. Arctic172 topics
  5. Tectonics172 topics
  6. Continental Margin162 topics
  7. Crustal Structure162 topics
  8. Glacial Cycles141 topic
  9. Paleoclimatology141 topic
  10. Petroleum141 topic
  11. geology141 topic
  12. Remote Sensing72 topics
  13. Pore Structure61 topic
  14. Shale Gas61 topic
  15. Glacier41 topic
  16. Water Availability41 topic
  17. Decline31 topic
  18. Fluvial Systems31 topic
  19. Sea Ice31 topic
  20. Sedimentation31 topic
  21. Cenozoic Evolution21 topic
  22. Plate Tectonics21 topic

Where does Frank Niessen work?

Frank Niessen's main affiliation in the publication record is Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Frank Niessen have?

Science Explorer counts 68 works and 421 citations for Frank Niessen, ranking #70,413 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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