Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Maarten J. de Wit

Maarten J. de Wit publishes mostly in Geophysics, Geology and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#130,060
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#418
of 29,826
Works
200
Citations
11k
Citations per work
56.2
h-index
60
i10-index 127Top 1.1% in Geophysics
Maarten J. de Wit

What does Maarten J. de Wit research?

Maarten J. de Wit's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (67%), Computer Science (10%).

Physical Sciences: 152 works · 76.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 133 works · 66.7% of their workGeophysics: 73 works · 36.5% of their workGeology: 23 works · 11.3% of their workPaleontology: 18 works · 9.2% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 12 works · 5.8% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 8 works · 3.9% of their workComputer Science: 19 works · 9.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 19 works · 9.5% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 23.8% of their workTHEIR WORKMaarten J. de Wit200works
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 Sciences13366.7%
    2. Computer Science199.5%
  2. Everything else4823.8%
  1. 1Geophysics36% of their works
  2. 2Geology11% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence10% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology9% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works
  6. 6Geochemistry and Petrology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Maarten J. de Wit's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Machine Learning, Mineral Prospectivity, Cenozoic Evolution and Rifting.

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. Plate Tectonics1903 topics
  2. Tectonics1452 topics
  3. Geochronology1131 topic
  4. Zircon1131 topic
  5. Machine Learning531 topic
  6. Mineral Prospectivity531 topic
  7. Cenozoic Evolution461 topic
  8. Rifting461 topic
  9. Paleoproductivity391 topic
  10. Paleoredox391 topic
  11. Earthquakes351 topic
  12. Subduction351 topic
  13. Fluvial Systems321 topic
  14. Sedimentation321 topic
  15. Crystal Structure Prediction311 topic
  16. Mantle Dynamics311 topic
  17. Climate Change181 topic
  18. Paleoclimatology181 topic

Where does Maarten J. de Wit work?

Maarten J. de Wit's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Maarten J. de Wit have?

OpenAlex counts 200 works and 11,232 citations for Maarten J. de Wit, an h-index of 60, ranking #130,060 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Maarten J. de Wit. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.