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Researcher · United States Geological Survey · United States

Keith A. Kvenvolden

Keith A. Kvenvolden publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

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World rank
#31,714
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,789
of 358,040
Works
37
Citations
648
Citations per work
17.5

What does Keith A. Kvenvolden research?

Global and Planetary Change: 16.3%Environmental Chemistry: 16.3%Mechanics of Materials: 14.3%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 10.2%other fields: 42.9%16%top field
Global and Planetary Change16.3%Environmental Chemistry16.3%Mechanics of Materials14.3%Astronomy and Astrophysics10.2%other fields42.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Global and Planetary Change16% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Chemistry16% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials14% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics10% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  6. 6Analytical Chemistry6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Keith A. Kvenvolden's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Shale Gas, Anaerobic, Emissions, Methane, Methane Oxidation, Mudstones, Pore Structure and Remote Sensing.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Shale Gas152 topics
  2. Anaerobic81 topic
  3. Emissions81 topic
  4. Methane81 topic
  5. Methane Oxidation81 topic
  6. Mudstones71 topic
  7. Pore Structure71 topic
  8. Remote Sensing42 topics
  9. Asphaltenes31 topic
  10. Petroleum31 topic
  11. Arctic21 topic
  12. Machine Learning21 topic
  13. Mineral Prospectivity21 topic
  14. Prebiotic Chemistry21 topic
  15. RNA World21 topic
  16. Sea Ice21 topic
  17. Angiosperm Phylogeny11 topic
  18. Flowering Plants11 topic

Where does Keith A. Kvenvolden work?

Keith A. Kvenvolden's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Geological Survey, United States.

How many publications and citations does Keith A. Kvenvolden have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 648 citations for Keith A. Kvenvolden, ranking #31,714 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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