Nigel Hicks
Nigel Hicks publishes mostly in Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions.
- World rank
- #3,954,479 of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
- Rank in South Africa
- #17,247 of 29,826
- Works
- 46
- Citations
- 553
- Citations per work
- 12.0
What does Nigel Hicks research?
Nigel Hicks's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (34%), Computer Science (10%), Environmental Science (9%).
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
- Physical Sciences2861.0%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1634.4%
- Computer Science510.2%
- Environmental Science49.4%
- Engineering37.0%
- Everything else1839.0%
- 1Geophysics20% of their works
- 2Artificial Intelligence10% of their works
- 3Environmental Engineering9% of their works
- 4Geology9% of their works
- 5Ocean Engineering7% of their works
- 6Geochemistry and Petrology6% of their works
Research topics
Which keywords describe Nigel Hicks's research?
The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, CO2 Sequestration, Geological Storage, Machine Learning and Mineral Prospectivity.
- Seismic Waveform Inversion
- Rare Earth Elements
- Sedimentation
- Optimization
- Rifting
- Mineral Prospectivity
- Geological Storage
- Zircon
- Tectonics
- Plate Tectonics
- Geochronology
- CO2 Sequestration
- Machine Learning
- Cenozoic Evolution
- Ensemble Kalman Filter
- Fluvial Systems
- Manganese Oxides
- Full-Waveform Tomography
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
- Plate Tectonics252 topics
- Tectonics222 topics
- Geochronology151 topic
- Zircon151 topic
- CO2 Sequestration121 topic
- Geological Storage121 topic
- Machine Learning121 topic
- Mineral Prospectivity121 topic
- Cenozoic Evolution101 topic
- Rifting101 topic
- Ensemble Kalman Filter81 topic
- Optimization81 topic
- Fluvial Systems71 topic
- Sedimentation71 topic
- Manganese Oxides51 topic
- Rare Earth Elements51 topic
- Full-Waveform Tomography41 topic
- Seismic Waveform Inversion41 topic
Where does Nigel Hicks work?
Nigel Hicks's main affiliation in the publication record is Council for Geoscience, South Africa.
How many publications and citations does Nigel Hicks have?
OpenAlex counts 46 works and 553 citations for Nigel Hicks, an h-index of 10, ranking #3,954,479 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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