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Researcher · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · United States

Pieter P. Tans

Pieter P. Tans publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

ORCID 0000-0002-9883-0787 OpenAlex
World rank
#16,880
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,041
of 1,627,098
Works
448
Citations
56k
Citations per work
124.6
h-index
115
i10-index 269Top 0.1% in Global and Planetary Change
Pieter P. Tans

What does Pieter P. Tans research?

Pieter P. Tans's work is mostly in Environmental Science (46%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (38%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 393 works · 87.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 204 works · 45.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 185 works · 41.4% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 works · 2.5% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 8 works · 1.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 170 works · 37.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 170 works · 37.9% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 2.7% of their workMechanics of Materials: 12 works · 2.7% of their workChemistry: 7 works · 1.6% of their workSpectroscopy: 7 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 55 works · 12.2% of their workTHEIR WORKPieter P. Tans448works
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. Environmental Science20445.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences17037.9%
    3. Engineering122.7%
    4. Chemistry71.6%
  2. Everything else5512.2%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change41% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science38% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials3% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering2% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry2% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pieter P. Tans's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Shale Gas, Emissions, Methane, Atmospheric Aerosols, Black Carbon, Ozone Depletion, Stratospheric Water Vapor and Climate Change.

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. Shale Gas3982 topics
  2. Emissions3661 topic
  3. Methane3661 topic
  4. Atmospheric Aerosols2171 topic
  5. Black Carbon2171 topic
  6. Ozone Depletion1551 topic
  7. Stratospheric Water Vapor1551 topic
  8. Climate Change1072 topics
  9. Extreme Events871 topic
  10. Global Warming871 topic
  11. Data Assimilation321 topic
  12. Ensemble Kalman Filter321 topic
  13. Mudstones321 topic
  14. Pore Structure321 topic
  15. Anaerobic201 topic
  16. Drought201 topic
  17. Methane Oxidation201 topic
  18. Tree Mortality201 topic

Where does Pieter P. Tans work?

Pieter P. Tans's main affiliation in the publication record is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States.

How many publications and citations does Pieter P. Tans have?

OpenAlex counts 448 works and 55,836 citations for Pieter P. Tans, an h-index of 115, ranking #16,880 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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