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Heywood Sumner

Heywood Sumner publishes mostly in Anthropology, Mechanics of Materials and Earth-Surface Processes, on topics such as Geological formations and processes, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

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World rank
#3,122,177
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#890,639
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
306
Citations per work
18.0
h-index
4
i10-index 3Top 67% in Anthropology
Heywood Sumner

What does Heywood Sumner research?

Heywood Sumner's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (32%), Social Sciences (15%), Engineering (10%).

Physical Sciences: 7 works · 42.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 32.5% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 works · 10.0% of their workGeology: 1 works · 7.5% of their workGeophysics: 1 works · 7.5% of their workPaleontology: 1 works · 7.5% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 10.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 2 works · 10.0% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 42.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 15.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 15.0% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 15.0% of their workTHEIR WORKHeywood Sumner17works
Physical Sciences42%Social Sciences15%

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 Sciences632.5%
    2. Engineering210.0%
  2. Everything else742.5%
    1. Social Sciences315.0%
  1. 1Anthropology15% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  3. 3Earth-Surface Processes10% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology8% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics8% of their works
  6. 6Geology8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Heywood Sumner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fluvial Systems, Pore Structure, Sedimentation, Shale Gas, African Diaspora, Agricultural Origins, Black Feminist Theory and Cenozoic Evolution.

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. Fluvial Systems41 topic
  2. Pore Structure41 topic
  3. Sedimentation41 topic
  4. Shale Gas41 topic
  5. African Diaspora31 topic
  6. Agricultural Origins31 topic
  7. Black Feminist Theory31 topic
  8. Cenozoic Evolution31 topic
  9. Plate Tectonics31 topic
  10. Radiocarbon Dating31 topic
  11. Traditional Irrigation31 topic
  12. Water Sustainability31 topic
  13. Anaerobic21 topic
  14. Cyperus21 topic
  15. Methane Oxidation21 topic
  16. Phylogeny21 topic

Where does Heywood Sumner work?

Heywood Sumner's main affiliation in the publication record is Shell (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Heywood Sumner have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 306 citations for Heywood Sumner, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,122,177 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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