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Researcher · Thames Water (United Kingdom) · United Kingdom

R. A. Downing

R. A. Downing publishes mostly in Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology and Ocean Engineering, on topics such as Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,795,268
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#134,158
of 367,258
Works
31
Citations
819
Citations per work
26.4
h-index
15
i10-index 18Top 32% in Environmental Engineering
R. A. Downing

What does R. A. Downing research?

R. A. Downing's work is mostly in Environmental Science (35%), Engineering (24%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (13%).

Physical Sciences: 25 works · 79.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 11 works · 35.3% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 works · 28.0% of their workWater Science and Technology: 2 works · 7.3% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 24.4% of their workMechanics of Materials: 4 works · 12.2% of their workOcean Engineering: 4 works · 12.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 13.4% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 4 works · 13.4% of their workEnergy: 2 works · 6.1% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 20.8% of their workTHEIR WORKR. A. Downing31works
Physical Sciences79%

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 Science1135.3%
    2. Engineering824.4%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences413.4%
    4. Energy26.1%
  2. Everything else620.8%
  1. 1Environmental Engineering28% of their works
  2. 2Geochemistry and Petrology13% of their works
  3. 3Ocean Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials12% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology7% of their works
  6. 6Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. A. Downing's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Groundwater Flow, Transport Modeling, Groundwater, Isotopes, Pore Structure, Shale Gas and Stable.

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. Climate Change162 topics
  2. Groundwater Flow161 topic
  3. Transport Modeling161 topic
  4. Groundwater132 topics
  5. Isotopes101 topic
  6. Pore Structure101 topic
  7. Shale Gas101 topic
  8. Stable101 topic
  9. Ensemble Kalman Filter61 topic
  10. Hydrological Modeling61 topic
  11. Optimization61 topic
  12. Water Resources61 topic
  13. Geothermal Energy51 topic
  14. Ground Source Heat Pump51 topic
  15. Groundwater Potential51 topic
  16. Remote Sensing51 topic
  17. Hydrogeology31 topic
  18. Karst31 topic

Where does R. A. Downing work?

R. A. Downing's main affiliation in the publication record is Thames Water (United Kingdom), United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does R. A. Downing have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 819 citations for R. A. Downing, an h-index of 15, ranking #1,795,268 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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