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Researcher · University of Iceland · Iceland

Freysteinn Sigmundsson

Freysteinn Sigmundsson publishes mostly in Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography, on topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

ORCID 0000-0001-9052-4665 OpenAlex
World rank
#304,377
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#143
of 2,050
Works
318
Citations
9.1k
Citations per work
28.5
h-index
55
i10-index 127Top 1.6% in Geophysics
Freysteinn Sigmundsson

What does Freysteinn Sigmundsson research?

Freysteinn Sigmundsson's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (64%), Environmental Science (10%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 252 works · 79.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 204 works · 64.3% of their workGeophysics: 140 works · 44.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 45 works · 14.0% of their workOceanography: 20 works · 6.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 31 works · 9.7% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 17 works · 5.5% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 13 works · 4.2% of their workEngineering: 17 works · 5.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 17 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 66 works · 20.7% of their workTHEIR WORKFreysteinnSigmundsson318works
Physical Sciences79%

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 Sciences20464.3%
    2. Environmental Science319.7%
    3. Engineering175.3%
  2. Everything else6620.7%
  1. 1Geophysics44% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science14% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography6% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Freysteinn Sigmundsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geodetic Measurements, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Subduction, Climate Change, Geochronology, Zircon and Sea Level Rise.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Geodetic Measurements1992 topics
  2. Plate Tectonics1832 topics
  3. Earthquakes1561 topic
  4. Subduction1561 topic
  5. Climate Change1503 topics
  6. Geochronology1251 topic
  7. Zircon1251 topic
  8. Sea Level Rise992 topics
  9. Remote Sensing922 topics
  10. Crystal Structure Prediction581 topic
  11. Mantle Dynamics581 topic
  12. Glacier561 topic
  13. Water Availability561 topic
  14. Glacial Cycles511 topic
  15. Paleoclimatology511 topic
  16. Anaerobic481 topic
  17. Methane Oxidation481 topic
  18. GRACE431 topic
  19. groundwater depletion431 topic
  20. Hazard361 topic
  21. Landslide361 topic

Where does Freysteinn Sigmundsson work?

Freysteinn Sigmundsson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Iceland, Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Freysteinn Sigmundsson have?

OpenAlex counts 318 works and 9,064 citations for Freysteinn Sigmundsson, an h-index of 55, ranking #304,377 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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