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Kristján Sæmundsson

Kristján Sæmundsson publishes mostly in Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and earthquake and tectonic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#841,948
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#323
of 2,050
Works
82
Citations
3.4k
Citations per work
41.9
h-index
26
i10-index 41Top 14% in Geophysics
Kristján Sæmundsson

What does Kristján Sæmundsson research?

Kristján Sæmundsson's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (53%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Environmental Science (6%).

Physical Sciences: 49 works · 59.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 44 works · 53.1% of their workGeophysics: 22 works · 26.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 12 works · 14.1% of their workOceanography: 6 works · 7.5% of their workGeology: 4 works · 5.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 6.1% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 5 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 34.7% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 6.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 6.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKKristjánSæmundsson82works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences59%

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 Sciences4453.1%
    2. Environmental Science56.1%
  2. Everything else2834.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology56.1%
  1. 1Geophysics26% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science14% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography8% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology6% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry6% of their works
  6. 6Geology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kristján Sæmundsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Geodetic Measurements, Glacial Cycles, Paleoclimatology, Geochronology, Zircon, Anaerobic and Earthquakes.

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. Climate Change352 topics
  2. Geodetic Measurements242 topics
  3. Glacial Cycles241 topic
  4. Paleoclimatology241 topic
  5. Geochronology231 topic
  6. Zircon231 topic
  7. Anaerobic131 topic
  8. Earthquakes131 topic
  9. Methane Oxidation131 topic
  10. Subduction131 topic
  11. GRACE111 topic
  12. Geomagnetic Field111 topic
  13. Magnetosome Formation111 topic
  14. Pore Structure111 topic
  15. Sea Level Rise111 topic
  16. Shale Gas111 topic
  17. Carpathian-Pannonian region101 topic
  18. Tectonic Evolution101 topic

Where does Kristján Sæmundsson work?

Kristján Sæmundsson's main affiliation in the publication record is Iceland GeoSurvey, Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Kristján Sæmundsson have?

OpenAlex counts 82 works and 3,434 citations for Kristján Sæmundsson, an h-index of 26, ranking #841,948 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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