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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Lewis D. Ashwal

Lewis D. Ashwal publishes mostly in Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

ORCID 0000-0001-7277-9007 OpenAlex
World rank
#372,793
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,414
of 29,826
Works
226
Citations
8.8k
Citations per work
38.9
h-index
53
i10-index 119Top 1.8% in Geophysics
Lewis D. Ashwal

What does Lewis D. Ashwal research?

Lewis D. Ashwal's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (64%), Computer Science (9%), Physics and Astronomy (8%).

Physical Sciences: 184 works · 81.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 146 works · 64.4% of their workGeophysics: 105 works · 46.3% of their workPaleontology: 14 works · 6.1% of their workAtmospheric Science: 14 works · 6.0% of their workGeology: 14 works · 6.0% of their workComputer Science: 19 works · 8.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 19 works · 8.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 19 works · 8.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 19 works · 8.4% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 18.6% of their workTHEIR WORKLewis D. Ashwal226works
Physical Sciences81%

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 Sciences14664.4%
    2. Computer Science198.6%
    3. Physics and Astronomy198.4%
  2. Everything else4218.6%
  1. 1Geophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics8% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology6% of their works
  5. 5Geology6% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lewis D. Ashwal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Earthquakes, Subduction, Crystal Structure Prediction, Machine Learning and Mantle Dynamics.

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. Plate Tectonics1982 topics
  2. Geochronology1471 topic
  3. Zircon1471 topic
  4. Earthquakes711 topic
  5. Subduction711 topic
  6. Crystal Structure Prediction511 topic
  7. Machine Learning511 topic
  8. Mantle Dynamics511 topic
  9. Mineral Prospectivity511 topic
  10. Climate Change371 topic
  11. Paleoclimatology371 topic
  12. Paleoproductivity341 topic
  13. Paleoredox341 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances271 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets271 topic
  16. Mars241 topic
  17. Martian Surface241 topic

Where does Lewis D. Ashwal work?

Lewis D. Ashwal's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Lewis D. Ashwal have?

OpenAlex counts 226 works and 8,787 citations for Lewis D. Ashwal, an h-index of 53, ranking #372,793 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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