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Peter R. Vail

Peter R. Vail publishes mostly in Geology, Earth-Surface Processes and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Geological formations and processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

World rank
#19,331
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,201
of 358,040
Works
39
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
32.2

What does Peter R. Vail research?

Geology: 20.0%Earth-Surface Processes: 14.3%Atmospheric Science: 11.4%Geophysics: 8.6%other fields: 45.7%20%top field
Geology20.0%Earth-Surface Processes14.3%Atmospheric Science11.4%Geophysics8.6%other fields45.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Geology20% of their works
  2. 2Earth-Surface Processes14% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science11% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics9% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology9% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter R. Vail's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tectonics, Continental Margin, Crustal Structure, Fluvial Systems, Sedimentation, Cenozoic Evolution, Climate Change and Paleoclimatology.

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.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Tectonics82 topics
  2. Continental Margin72 topics
  3. Crustal Structure72 topics
  4. Fluvial Systems51 topic
  5. Sedimentation51 topic
  6. Cenozoic Evolution41 topic
  7. Climate Change41 topic
  8. Paleoclimatology41 topic
  9. Plate Tectonics41 topic
  10. Anaerobic31 topic
  11. Arctic31 topic
  12. Ensemble Kalman Filter31 topic
  13. Methane Oxidation31 topic
  14. Optimization31 topic
  15. Paleoproductivity31 topic
  16. Paleoredox31 topic
  17. geology31 topic
  18. Geological Modeling21 topic
  19. Uncertainty Analysis21 topic

Where does Peter R. Vail work?

Peter R. Vail's main affiliation in the publication record is Rice University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter R. Vail have?

Science Explorer counts 39 works and 1,257 citations for Peter R. Vail, ranking #19,331 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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