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Researcher · Woodward (United States) · United States

Paul Somerville

Paul Somerville publishes mostly in Geophysics, Civil and Structural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Seismic Performance and Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies and Seismic Waves and Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#375,039
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#133,698
of 1,627,098
Works
198
Citations
8.5k
Citations per work
43.0
h-index
42
i10-index 89Top 4.1% in Geophysics
Paul Somerville

What does Paul Somerville research?

Paul Somerville's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (44%), Engineering (37%), Computer Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 175 works · 88.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 87 works · 43.7% of their workGeophysics: 87 works · 43.7% of their workEngineering: 73 works · 37.0% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 66 works · 33.5% of their workOcean Engineering: 4 works · 2.2% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 1.3% of their workComputer Science: 10 works · 4.9% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 10 works · 4.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 2.6% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 11.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul Somerville198works
Physical Sciences88%

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 Sciences8743.7%
    2. Engineering7337.0%
    3. Computer Science104.9%
    4. Environmental Science52.6%
  2. Everything else2311.8%
  1. 1Geophysics44% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering34% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Somerville's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tomography, Ground Motion, Seismic Engineering, Earthquakes, Subduction, Seismic Noise, Surface Wave and Vibration-based Damage Identification.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Tomography1102 topics
  2. Ground Motion1031 topic
  3. Seismic Engineering1031 topic
  4. Earthquakes971 topic
  5. Subduction971 topic
  6. Seismic Noise871 topic
  7. Surface Wave871 topic
  8. Vibration-based Damage Identification271 topic
  9. Wireless Sensors271 topic
  10. Machine Learning261 topic
  11. Seismic Signals261 topic
  12. Crystal Structure Prediction231 topic
  13. Mantle Dynamics231 topic
  14. Full-Waveform Tomography151 topic
  15. Seismic Waveform Inversion151 topic
  16. Seismic141 topic
  17. Tunnel141 topic

Where does Paul Somerville work?

Paul Somerville's main affiliation in the publication record is Woodward (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Paul Somerville have?

OpenAlex counts 198 works and 8,510 citations for Paul Somerville, an h-index of 42, ranking #375,039 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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