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Researcher · Imperial College London · United Kingdom

Iain Thornton

Iain Thornton publishes mostly in Pollution, Artificial Intelligence and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, on topics such as Heavy metals in environment, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity.

OpenAlex
World rank
#77,190
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#6,641
of 367,258
Works
206
Citations
14k
Citations per work
66.7
h-index
58
i10-index 137Top 1.8% in Pollution
Iain Thornton

What does Iain Thornton research?

Iain Thornton's work is mostly in Environmental Science (45%), Computer Science (11%), Health Professions (5%).

Physical Sciences: 122 works · 59.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 92 works · 44.8% of their workPollution: 54 works · 26.4% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 21 works · 10.1% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 17 works · 8.3% of their workComputer Science: 22 works · 10.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 22 works · 10.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 3.9% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 8 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 73 works · 35.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 5.1% of their workHealth Professions: 11 works · 5.1% of their workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 11 works · 5.1% of their workTHEIR WORKIain Thornton206works
Physical Sciences59%Health Sciences5%

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 Science9244.8%
    2. Computer Science2210.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences83.9%
  2. Everything else7335.5%
    1. Health Professions115.1%
  1. 1Pollution26% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence11% of their works
  3. 3Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis10% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry8% of their works
  5. 5Radiological and Ultrasound Technology5% of their works
  6. 6Geochemistry and Petrology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Iain Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Toxicity, Remediation, Contamination, Heavy Metals, Health Risk, Soil, Health Effects and Machine Learning.

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.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Toxicity1693 topics
  2. Remediation1522 topics
  3. Contamination1432 topics
  4. Heavy Metals1382 topics
  5. Health Risk1281 topic
  6. Soil1281 topic
  7. Health Effects523 topics
  8. Machine Learning521 topic
  9. Mineral Prospectivity521 topic
  10. Environmental Impact362 topics
  11. Mineralogy342 topics
  12. Metal Toxicity281 topic
  13. Oxidative Stress281 topic
  14. Ionizing Radiation261 topic
  15. Radon261 topic
  16. Metal Removal241 topic
  17. Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria241 topic
  18. Arsenic151 topic
  19. Water151 topic
  20. Mercury111 topic
  21. Toxicology111 topic
  22. Coal Geochemistry101 topic
  23. Trace Elements101 topic

Where does Iain Thornton work?

Iain Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Iain Thornton have?

OpenAlex counts 206 works and 13,733 citations for Iain Thornton, an h-index of 58, ranking #77,190 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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