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Researcher · British Library · United Kingdom

Peter Barber

Peter Barber publishes mostly in Geology, Geography, Planning and Development and History, on topics such as Geological and Geophysical Studies, Historical Geography and Cartography and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,103,313
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#260,555
of 367,258
Works
56
Citations
413
Citations per work
7.4
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 33% in Geology
Peter Barber

What does Peter Barber research?

Peter Barber's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (16%), Social Sciences (12%).

Everything else: 25 works · 44.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 18 works · 32.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 20.3% of their workHistory: 4 works · 7.8% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 works · 7.0% of their workArcheology: 3 works · 5.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 12.5% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 7 works · 12.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 13 works · 22.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 works · 16.4% of their workGeology: 9 works · 16.4% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 6.3% of their workMechanics of Materials: 4 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter Barber56works
Physical Sciences23%Social Sciences33%

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. Everything else2544.5%
    1. Arts and Humanities1120.3%
    2. Social Sciences712.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences916.4%
    2. Engineering46.3%
  1. 1Geology16% of their works
  2. 2Geography, Planning and Development12% of their works
  3. 3History8% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science7% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials6% of their works
  6. 6Archeology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Barber's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Continental Margin, Crustal Structure, Tectonics, Cenozoic Evolution, Plate Tectonics, Geodesy, Map Projections and Pore Structure.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Continental Margin202 topics
  2. Crustal Structure202 topics
  3. Tectonics142 topics
  4. Cenozoic Evolution131 topic
  5. Plate Tectonics131 topic
  6. Geodesy121 topic
  7. Map Projections121 topic
  8. Pore Structure81 topic
  9. Shale Gas81 topic
  10. Arctic71 topic
  11. Fluvial Systems71 topic
  12. Sedimentation71 topic
  13. geology71 topic
  14. History62 topics
  15. Science62 topics
  16. Anaerobic31 topic
  17. Colonialism31 topic
  18. Innovation31 topic
  19. Knowledge Production31 topic
  20. Methane Oxidation31 topic
  21. Technology31 topic

Where does Peter Barber work?

Peter Barber's main affiliation in the publication record is British Library, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Peter Barber have?

OpenAlex counts 56 works and 413 citations for Peter Barber, an h-index of 9, ranking #4,103,313 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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