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Researcher · Council for Geoscience · South Africa

Ian Saunders

Ian Saunders publishes mostly in Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology, on topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Seismic Waves and Analysis and Seismology and Earthquake Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-5047-4915 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,929,342
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#21,310
of 29,826
Works
33
Citations
326
Citations per work
9.9
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 62% in Geophysics
Ian Saunders

What does Ian Saunders research?

Ian Saunders's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (63%), Computer Science (10%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 25 works · 75.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 21 works · 63.2% of their workGeophysics: 18 works · 53.7% of their workGeology: 2 works · 5.3% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 works · 2.1% of their workOceanography: 1 works · 2.1% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 10.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 10.5% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 2.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 24.2% of their workTHEIR WORKIan Saunders33works
Physical Sciences76%

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 Sciences2163.2%
    2. Computer Science310.5%
    3. Engineering12.1%
  2. Everything else824.2%
  1. 1Geophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence10% of their works
  3. 3Geology5% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography2% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes2% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian Saunders's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Earthquakes, Subduction, Tomography, Seismic Noise, Surface Wave, Machine Learning, Seismic Signals and Full-Waveform Tomography.

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. Earthquakes211 topic
  2. Subduction211 topic
  3. Tomography182 topics
  4. Seismic Noise151 topic
  5. Surface Wave151 topic
  6. Machine Learning101 topic
  7. Seismic Signals101 topic
  8. Full-Waveform Tomography71 topic
  9. Plate Tectonics72 topics
  10. Seismic Waveform Inversion71 topic
  11. Cenozoic Evolution41 topic
  12. Rifting41 topic
  13. Crystal Structure Prediction31 topic
  14. Ionospheric Anomalies31 topic
  15. Mantle Dynamics31 topic
  16. Seismic Electromagnetics31 topic
  17. Geomagnetic Field21 topic
  18. Magnetosome Formation21 topic

Where does Ian Saunders work?

Ian Saunders's main affiliation in the publication record is Council for Geoscience, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Ian Saunders have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 326 citations for Ian Saunders, an h-index of 9, ranking #4,929,342 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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