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G. D. Towner

G. D. Towner publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics and Landslides and related hazards.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,664,410
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#515,812
of 1,627,098
Works
36
Citations
505
Citations per work
14.0
h-index
12
i10-index 14Top 33% in Civil and Structural Engineering
G. D. Towner

What does G. D. Towner research?

G. D. Towner's work is mostly in Engineering (48%), Environmental Science (24%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Physical Sciences: 27 works · 74.7% of their workEngineering: 17 works · 48.4% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 16 works · 44.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 24.3% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 works · 15.2% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 works · 9.1% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 2.0% of their workBiomaterials: 1 works · 2.0% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 20.2% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 5.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 5.1% of their workSoil Science: 2 works · 5.1% of their workTHEIR WORKG. D. Towner36works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences75%

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. Engineering1748.4%
    2. Environmental Science924.3%
    3. Materials Science12.0%
  2. Everything else720.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences25.1%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering44% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law9% of their works
  4. 4Soil Science5% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Biomaterials2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe G. D. Towner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Soil Hydraulic Properties, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Remote Sensing, Hazard, Landslide, Liquefaction Resistance, Particle Shape Effects and Groundwater Flow.

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. Soil Hydraulic Properties301 topic
  2. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics301 topic
  3. Remote Sensing152 topics
  4. Hazard91 topic
  5. Landslide91 topic
  6. Liquefaction Resistance91 topic
  7. Particle Shape Effects91 topic
  8. Groundwater Flow81 topic
  9. Hydrological Modeling82 topics
  10. Transport Modeling81 topic
  11. Satellite Observations61 topic
  12. Soil Moisture61 topic
  13. Embankment Dams31 topic
  14. Internal Erosion31 topic
  15. Climate Change21 topic
  16. No-till Crop Production21 topic
  17. Soil Compaction21 topic
  18. Water Resources21 topic

Where does G. D. Towner work?

G. D. Towner's main affiliation in the publication record is Experimental Station, United States.

How many publications and citations does G. D. Towner have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 505 citations for G. D. Towner, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,664,410 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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