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Researcher · University of Johannesburg · South Africa

Nicolas J. Beukes

Nicolas J. Beukes publishes mostly in Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology and Paleontology, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-6531-3695 OpenAlex
World rank
#95,269
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#271
of 29,826
Works
203
Citations
13k
Citations per work
63.1
h-index
57
i10-index 138Top 1.4% in Geophysics
Nicolas J. Beukes

What does Nicolas J. Beukes research?

Nicolas J. Beukes's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (67%), Computer Science (9%).

Physical Sciences: 155 works · 76.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 136 works · 67.2% of their workGeophysics: 42 works · 20.5% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 37 works · 18.3% of their workPaleontology: 35 works · 17.2% of their workGeology: 12 works · 5.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 11 works · 5.3% of their workComputer Science: 19 works · 9.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 19 works · 9.2% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 23.6% of their workTHEIR WORKNicolas J. Beukes203works
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 Sciences13667.2%
    2. Computer Science199.2%
  2. Everything else4823.6%
  1. 1Geophysics20% of their works
  2. 2Geochemistry and Petrology18% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology17% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  5. 5Geology6% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicolas J. Beukes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tectonics, Plate Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Manganese Oxides and Rare Earth Elements.

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. Tectonics1182 topics
  2. Plate Tectonics1172 topics
  3. Geochronology971 topic
  4. Zircon971 topic
  5. Paleoproductivity931 topic
  6. Paleoredox931 topic
  7. Manganese Oxides921 topic
  8. Rare Earth Elements921 topic
  9. Machine Learning501 topic
  10. Mineral Prospectivity501 topic
  11. Climate Change291 topic
  12. Paleoclimatology291 topic
  13. Fluvial Systems211 topic
  14. Sedimentation211 topic
  15. Cenozoic Evolution201 topic
  16. Rifting201 topic
  17. Geomagnetic Field181 topic
  18. Magnetosome Formation181 topic

Where does Nicolas J. Beukes work?

Nicolas J. Beukes's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Nicolas J. Beukes have?

OpenAlex counts 203 works and 12,805 citations for Nicolas J. Beukes, an h-index of 57, ranking #95,269 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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