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Researcher · Geoscience Australia · Australia

P.E. O’Brien

P.E. O’Brien publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Earth-Surface Processes, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations and Polar Research and Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0003-3446-3292 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,688,363
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#74,562
of 140,210
Works
163
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
20.1
h-index
35
i10-index 62Top 11% in Atmospheric Science
P.E. O’Brien

What does P.E. O’Brien research?

P.E. O’Brien's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (68%), Environmental Science (12%).

Physical Sciences: 130 works · 79.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 110 works · 67.5% of their workAtmospheric Science: 67 works · 41.4% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 14 works · 8.5% of their workGeology: 10 works · 6.3% of their workOceanography: 9 works · 5.8% of their workGeophysics: 9 works · 5.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 20 works · 12.1% of their workEcology: 20 works · 12.1% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 20.4% of their workTHEIR WORKP.E. O’Brien163works
Physical Sciences80%

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 Sciences11067.5%
    2. Environmental Science2012.1%
  2. Everything else3320.4%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science41% of their works
  2. 2Ecology12% of their works
  3. 3Earth-Surface Processes8% of their works
  4. 4Geology6% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography6% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P.E. O’Brien's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Glacial Cycles, Paleoclimatology, Glacier, Water Availability, Biogeography, Tectonics and Antarctic.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change1733 topics
  2. Glacial Cycles821 topic
  3. Paleoclimatology821 topic
  4. Glacier571 topic
  5. Water Availability571 topic
  6. Biogeography442 topics
  7. Tectonics422 topics
  8. Antarctic341 topic
  9. Microorganisms341 topic
  10. Plate Tectonics302 topics
  11. Fluvial Systems291 topic
  12. Sedimentation291 topic
  13. Anaerobic171 topic
  14. Cenozoic Evolution171 topic
  15. Methane Oxidation171 topic
  16. Rifting171 topic
  17. Geochronology131 topic
  18. Zircon131 topic
  19. Ecosystem Functioning101 topic
  20. Marine Biodiversity101 topic

Where does P.E. O’Brien work?

P.E. O’Brien's main affiliation in the publication record is Geoscience Australia, Australia.

How many publications and citations does P.E. O’Brien have?

OpenAlex counts 163 works and 3,279 citations for P.E. O’Brien, an h-index of 35, ranking #2,688,363 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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