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Researcher · Environment and Climate Change Canada · Canada

Merv F. Fingas

Merv F. Fingas publishes mostly in Pollution, Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation, Petroleum Processing and Analysis and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact.

ORCID 0000-0002-4943-8535 OpenAlex
World rank
#267,946
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#9,222
of 183,316
Works
197
Citations
9.4k
Citations per work
47.5
h-index
48
i10-index 105Top 3.7% in Pollution
Merv F. Fingas

What does Merv F. Fingas research?

Merv F. Fingas's work is mostly in Environmental Science (36%), Chemistry (21%), Engineering (6%).

Physical Sciences: 125 works · 63.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 72 works · 36.3% of their workPollution: 48 works · 24.3% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 14 works · 7.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 works · 4.7% of their workChemistry: 41 works · 21.0% of their workAnalytical Chemistry: 26 works · 13.2% of their workSpectroscopy: 15 works · 7.8% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 6.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 12 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 72 works · 36.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMerv F. Fingas197works
Physical Sciences63%

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. Environmental Science7236.3%
    2. Chemistry4121.0%
    3. Engineering126.1%
  2. Everything else7236.6%
  1. 1Pollution24% of their works
  2. 2Analytical Chemistry13% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy8% of their works
  4. 4Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis7% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials6% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Merv F. Fingas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodegradation, Oil Spill Detection, Remote Sensing, Mass Spectrometry, Asphaltenes, Petroleum, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Shale Gas.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodegradation1453 topics
  2. Oil Spill Detection821 topic
  3. Remote Sensing821 topic
  4. Mass Spectrometry662 topics
  5. Asphaltenes471 topic
  6. Petroleum471 topic
  7. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons452 topics
  8. Shale Gas442 topics
  9. Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor291 topic
  10. Brominated Flame Retardants291 topic
  11. Mudstones251 topic
  12. Pore Structure251 topic
  13. Electrospray191 topic
  14. Emissions191 topic
  15. Ionization191 topic
  16. Methane191 topic
  17. Biosurfactants161 topic
  18. Petroleum Microbiology161 topic
  19. Pore-scale Modeling161 topic
  20. X-ray Computed Tomography161 topic

Where does Merv F. Fingas work?

Merv F. Fingas's main affiliation in the publication record is Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Merv F. Fingas have?

OpenAlex counts 197 works and 9,361 citations for Merv F. Fingas, an h-index of 48, ranking #267,946 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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