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Researcher · Planetary Science Institute · United States

Orson L. Anderson

Orson L. Anderson publishes mostly in Geophysics, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and earthquake and tectonic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#48,374
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,670
of 1,627,098
Works
264
Citations
22k
Citations per work
82.1
h-index
71
i10-index 154Top 0.5% in Geophysics
Orson L. Anderson

What does Orson L. Anderson research?

Orson L. Anderson's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (43%), Materials Science (20%), Engineering (6%).

Physical Sciences: 191 works · 72.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 113 works · 42.9% of their workGeophysics: 113 works · 42.9% of their workMaterials Science: 52 works · 19.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 36 works · 13.5% of their workCeramics and Composites: 8 works · 3.2% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 8 works · 2.9% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 5.7% of their workMechanics of Materials: 15 works · 5.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 11 works · 4.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 11 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 73 works · 27.6% of their workTHEIR WORKOrson L. Anderson264works
Physical Sciences72%

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 Sciences11342.9%
    2. Materials Science5219.6%
    3. Engineering155.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy114.2%
  2. Everything else7327.6%
  1. 1Geophysics43% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry14% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials6% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works
  5. 5Ceramics and Composites3% of their works
  6. 6Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Orson L. Anderson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tomography, Crystal Structure Prediction, Mantle Dynamics, Geochronology, Zircon, Earthquakes and Subduction.

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. Plate Tectonics2182 topics
  2. Tomography1712 topics
  3. Crystal Structure Prediction1531 topic
  4. Mantle Dynamics1531 topic
  5. Geochronology651 topic
  6. Zircon651 topic
  7. Earthquakes391 topic
  8. Subduction391 topic
  9. Protonic Conduction221 topic
  10. Solid Acids221 topic
  11. Seismic Noise181 topic
  12. Surface Wave181 topic
  13. Crystallographic Computing151 topic
  14. Glass Science151 topic
  15. Guided Lamb Waves151 topic
  16. Nonlinear Optical Materials151 topic
  17. Piezoelectric Impedance-Based Health Monitoring151 topic
  18. Structural Analysis151 topic

Where does Orson L. Anderson work?

Orson L. Anderson's main affiliation in the publication record is Planetary Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Orson L. Anderson have?

OpenAlex counts 264 works and 21,685 citations for Orson L. Anderson, an h-index of 71, ranking #48,374 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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