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Researcher · United States Geological Survey · United States

George R. Aiken

George R. Aiken publishes mostly in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Marine and coastal ecosystems and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0001-8454-0984 OpenAlex
World rank
#19,119
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,929
of 1,627,098
Works
336
Citations
33k
Citations per work
98.5
h-index
97
i10-index 165Top 0.3% in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
George R. Aiken

What does George R. Aiken research?

George R. Aiken's work is mostly in Environmental Science (42%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%).

Physical Sciences: 218 works · 64.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 142 works · 42.4% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 70 works · 20.7% of their workWater Science and Technology: 28 works · 8.2% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 24 works · 7.2% of their workEcology: 21 works · 6.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 75 works · 22.4% of their workOceanography: 43 works · 12.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 32 works · 9.5% of their workEverything else: 118 works · 35.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGeorge R. Aiken336works
Physical Sciences65%

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. Environmental Science14242.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences7522.4%
  2. Everything else11835.2%
  1. 1Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis21% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography13% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science10% of their works
  4. 4Water Science and Technology8% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry7% of their works
  6. 6Ecology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George R. Aiken's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bioaccumulation, Emissions, Eutrophication, Climate Change, Mercury, Toxicology, Water Quality and Dissolved Organic Matter.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Bioaccumulation1272 topics
  2. Emissions1262 topics
  3. Eutrophication1222 topics
  4. Climate Change1092 topics
  5. Mercury981 topic
  6. Toxicology981 topic
  7. Water Quality953 topics
  8. Dissolved Organic Matter811 topic
  9. Harmful Algal Blooms811 topic
  10. Toxicity542 topics
  11. Hyporheic Zone411 topic
  12. Nutrient Cycling411 topic
  13. Brominated Flame Retardants291 topic
  14. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons291 topic
  15. Arctic281 topic
  16. Methane281 topic
  17. Permafrost281 topic
  18. Shale Gas281 topic
  19. Monitoring261 topic
  20. Wastewater261 topic
  21. Contamination251 topic
  22. Heavy Metals251 topic

Where does George R. Aiken work?

George R. Aiken's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Geological Survey, United States.

How many publications and citations does George R. Aiken have?

OpenAlex counts 336 works and 33,095 citations for George R. Aiken, an h-index of 97, ranking #19,119 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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