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Researcher · University of California, Santa Barbara · United States

Preston E. Cloud

Preston E. Cloud publishes mostly in Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

OpenAlex
World rank
#909,749
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#299,782
of 1,627,098
Works
214
Citations
5.7k
Citations per work
26.5
h-index
37
i10-index 78Top 5.8% in Paleontology
Preston E. Cloud

What does Preston E. Cloud research?

Preston E. Cloud's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (41%), Physics and Astronomy (8%).

Everything else: 110 works · 51.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 104 works · 48.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 87 works · 40.7% of their workPaleontology: 33 works · 15.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 22 works · 10.3% of their workGeology: 12 works · 5.5% of their workGeophysics: 11 works · 5.2% of their workOceanography: 9 works · 4.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 17 works · 8.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 17 works · 8.0% of their workTHEIR WORKPreston E. Cloud214works
Physical Sciences49%

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 else11051.3%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences8740.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy178.0%
  1. 1Paleontology15% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science10% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics8% of their works
  4. 4Geology6% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics5% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Preston E. Cloud's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Tectonics, Machine Learning, Mineral Prospectivity and Geochronology.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Paleoproductivity531 topic
  2. Paleoredox531 topic
  3. Climate Change451 topic
  4. Paleoclimatology451 topic
  5. Tectonics383 topics
  6. Machine Learning171 topic
  7. Mineral Prospectivity171 topic
  8. Geochronology161 topic
  9. Zircon161 topic
  10. Arctic121 topic
  11. geology121 topic
  12. Mammal Evolution111 topic
  13. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis111 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances111 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets111 topic
  16. Fluvial Systems101 topic
  17. Sedimentation101 topic

Where does Preston E. Cloud work?

Preston E. Cloud's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.

How many publications and citations does Preston E. Cloud have?

OpenAlex counts 214 works and 5,668 citations for Preston E. Cloud, an h-index of 37, ranking #909,749 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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