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Researcher · Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie · France

Karim Benzerara

Karim Benzerara publishes mostly in Paleontology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Biomaterials, on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition and Planetary Science and Exploration.

ORCID 0000-0002-0553-0137 OpenAlex
World rank
#118,747
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#9,085
of 324,115
Works
408
Citations
13k
Citations per work
31.2
h-index
65
i10-index 163Top 0.4% in Paleontology
Karim Benzerara

What does Karim Benzerara research?

Karim Benzerara's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (18%), Physics and Astronomy (11%), Materials Science (9%).

Everything else: 202 works · 49.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 176 works · 43.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 73 works · 17.9% of their workPaleontology: 49 works · 12.0% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 24 works · 5.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 44 works · 10.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 44 works · 10.8% of their workMaterials Science: 35 works · 8.7% of their workBiomaterials: 35 works · 8.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 24 works · 5.8% of their workEcology: 24 works · 5.8% of their workLife Sciences: 30 works · 7.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 30 works · 7.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 30 works · 7.3% of their workTHEIR WORKKarim Benzerara408works
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences43%

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. Everything else20249.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences7317.9%
    2. Physics and Astronomy4410.8%
    3. Materials Science358.7%
    4. Environmental Science245.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology307.3%
  1. 1Paleontology12% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics11% of their works
  3. 3Biomaterials9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology7% of their works
  5. 5Geochemistry and Petrology6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karim Benzerara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Biomineralization, Bioinspired Materials, Nanocomposites, Mars, Martian Surface and Manganese Oxides.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Paleoproductivity1151 topic
  2. Paleoredox1151 topic
  3. Biomineralization1052 topics
  4. Bioinspired Materials711 topic
  5. Nanocomposites711 topic
  6. Mars581 topic
  7. Martian Surface581 topic
  8. Manganese Oxides531 topic
  9. Rare Earth Elements531 topic
  10. Climate Change461 topic
  11. Paleoclimatology461 topic
  12. Solar System Abundances421 topic
  13. Terrestrial Planets421 topic
  14. Marine Microbes371 topic
  15. Microbial Biogeography371 topic
  16. Geomagnetic Field341 topic
  17. Magnetosome Formation341 topic

Where does Karim Benzerara work?

Karim Benzerara's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie, France.

How many publications and citations does Karim Benzerara have?

OpenAlex counts 408 works and 12,741 citations for Karim Benzerara, an h-index of 65, ranking #118,747 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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