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Researcher · The Open University · United Kingdom

Neil Smith

Neil Smith publishes mostly in Paleontology, Information Systems and Computer Science Applications, on topics such as Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Software Engineering Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-0990-3594 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,563,727
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#119,338
of 367,258
Works
119
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
17.4
h-index
26
i10-index 45Top 14% in Paleontology
Neil Smith

What does Neil Smith research?

Neil Smith's work is mostly in Computer Science (37%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (16%), Environmental Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 72 works · 60.4% of their workComputer Science: 45 works · 37.4% of their workInformation Systems: 15 works · 13.0% of their workComputer Science Applications: 10 works · 8.8% of their workSoftware: 10 works · 8.1% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 9 works · 7.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 works · 15.9% of their workPaleontology: 19 works · 15.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 7.1% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 8 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 47 works · 39.6% of their workTHEIR WORKNeil Smith119works
Physical Sciences60%

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. Computer Science4537.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1915.9%
    3. Environmental Science87.1%
  2. Everything else4739.6%
  1. 1Paleontology16% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems13% of their works
  3. 3Computer Science Applications9% of their works
  4. 4Software8% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  6. 6Nature and Landscape Conservation7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Neil Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dinosaur, Evolution, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Code Clone Detection, Refactoring, Domain-Specific Languages and Model-Driven Engineering.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Dinosaur251 topic
  2. Evolution251 topic
  3. Mammal Evolution221 topic
  4. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis221 topic
  5. Code Clone Detection201 topic
  6. Refactoring201 topic
  7. Domain-Specific Languages181 topic
  8. Model-Driven Engineering181 topic
  9. Rays151 topic
  10. Sharks151 topic
  11. Computational Thinking121 topic
  12. Programming Education121 topic
  13. Information Visualization101 topic
  14. Visual Analytics101 topic
  15. Ontology81 topic
  16. Semantic Web81 topic

Where does Neil Smith work?

Neil Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is The Open University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Neil Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 119 works and 2,068 citations for Neil Smith, an h-index of 26, ranking #1,563,727 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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