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Researcher · Kingston University · United Kingdom

Nick Petford

Nick Petford publishes mostly in Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

ORCID 0000-0002-9828-3816 OpenAlex
World rank
#941,273
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#66,203
of 90,785
Works
36
Citations
120
Citations per work
3.3

What does Nick Petford research?

Geophysics: 28.6%Mechanics of Materials: 6.3%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 6.3%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4.8%other fields: 54.0%29%top field
Geophysics28.6%Mechanics of Materials6.3%Astronomy and Astrophysics6.3%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4.8%other fields54.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Geophysics29% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials6% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law5% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nick Petford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Remote Sensing, Crystal Structure Prediction, Earthquakes 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.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Plate Tectonics132 topics
  2. Tectonics112 topics
  3. Geochronology91 topic
  4. Zircon91 topic
  5. Remote Sensing52 topics
  6. Crystal Structure Prediction41 topic
  7. Earthquakes41 topic
  8. Mantle Dynamics41 topic
  9. Subduction41 topic
  10. Hazard31 topic
  11. Landslide31 topic
  12. Arctic21 topic
  13. Climate Change21 topic
  14. Machine Learning21 topic
  15. Mineral Prospectivity21 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology21 topic
  17. Rock Mechanics21 topic
  18. Wave Propagation21 topic
  19. geology21 topic

Where does Nick Petford work?

Nick Petford's main affiliation in the publication record is Kingston University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nick Petford have?

Science Explorer counts 36 works and 120 citations for Nick Petford, ranking #941,273 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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