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Researcher · Chandler–Gilbert Community College · United States

Gerald C. Kukal

Gerald C. Kukal publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,410,742
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,514,607
of 1,627,098
Works
15
Citations
72
Citations per work
4.8
h-index
5
i10-index 2Top 81% in Mechanical Engineering
Gerald C. Kukal

What does Gerald C. Kukal research?

Gerald C. Kukal's work is mostly in Engineering (73%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (13%), Environmental Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 91.0% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 73.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 4 works · 28.9% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 22.2% of their workOcean Engineering: 3 works · 22.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 13.3% of their workGeophysics: 2 works · 11.1% of their workGeology: 0 works · 2.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 4.4% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 9.0% of their workTHEIR WORKGerald C. Kukal15works
Physical Sciences91%

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. Engineering1173.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences213.3%
    3. Environmental Science14.4%
  2. Everything else19.0%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering29% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering22% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials22% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics11% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Geology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerald C. Kukal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Pore Structure, Shale Gas, Drilling Fluids, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Optimization and Well Integrity.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Hydraulic Fracturing121 topic
  2. Shale Gas Reservoirs121 topic
  3. Pore Structure101 topic
  4. Shale Gas101 topic
  5. Drilling Fluids51 topic
  6. Ensemble Kalman Filter51 topic
  7. Optimization51 topic
  8. Well Integrity51 topic
  9. Full-Waveform Tomography41 topic
  10. Seismic Waveform Inversion41 topic
  11. Anaerobic21 topic
  12. Methane Oxidation21 topic
  13. Arctic11 topic
  14. Coal Geochemistry11 topic
  15. Trace Elements11 topic
  16. geology11 topic

Where does Gerald C. Kukal work?

Gerald C. Kukal's main affiliation in the publication record is Chandler–Gilbert Community College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gerald C. Kukal have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 72 citations for Gerald C. Kukal, an h-index of 5, ranking #6,410,742 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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