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Researcher · Berkeley Geochronology Center · United States

Greg Balco

Greg Balco publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Geophysics and Ecology, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations and Polar Research and Ecology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#313,041
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#113,256
of 1,627,098
Works
307
Citations
12k
Citations per work
37.8
h-index
44
i10-index 89Top 6.3% in Atmospheric Science
Greg Balco

What does Greg Balco research?

Greg Balco's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (57%), Environmental Science (8%), Social Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 199 works · 64.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 175 works · 57.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 132 works · 42.9% of their workGeophysics: 26 works · 8.5% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 17 works · 5.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 24 works · 7.8% of their workEcology: 24 works · 7.8% of their workEverything else: 83 works · 27.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 4.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 4.5% of their workAnthropology: 14 works · 4.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 3.7% of their workMedicine: 11 works · 3.7% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 11 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKGreg Balco307works
Physical Sciences65%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences4%

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 Sciences17557.0%
    2. Environmental Science247.8%
  2. Everything else8327.0%
    1. Social Sciences144.5%
    1. Medicine113.7%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science43% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics8% of their works
  3. 3Ecology8% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology4% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Greg Balco's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Glacial Cycles, Paleoclimatology, Glacier, Water Availability, Tectonics, Antarctic and Microorganisms.

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. Climate Change3313 topics
  2. Glacial Cycles1901 topic
  3. Paleoclimatology1901 topic
  4. Glacier981 topic
  5. Water Availability981 topic
  6. Tectonics612 topics
  7. Antarctic431 topic
  8. Microorganisms431 topic
  9. Geochronology311 topic
  10. Hominin Genetics311 topic
  11. Paleolithic Archaeology311 topic
  12. Zircon311 topic
  13. Fluvial Systems301 topic
  14. Sedimentation301 topic
  15. Skiing261 topic
  16. Snowboarding261 topic
  17. Anaerobic241 topic
  18. Methane Oxidation241 topic

Where does Greg Balco work?

Greg Balco's main affiliation in the publication record is Berkeley Geochronology Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Greg Balco have?

OpenAlex counts 307 works and 11,604 citations for Greg Balco, an h-index of 44, ranking #313,041 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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