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Researcher · National Oceanography Centre · United Kingdom

R. B. Whitmarsh

R. B. Whitmarsh publishes mostly in Geophysics, Geology and Oceanography, on topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide.

OpenAlex
World rank
#742,254
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#62,189
of 367,258
Works
175
Citations
6k
Citations per work
34.0
h-index
42
i10-index 76Top 4.1% in Geophysics
R. B. Whitmarsh

What does R. B. Whitmarsh research?

R. B. Whitmarsh's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (72%), Engineering (4%), Environmental Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 139 works · 79.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 126 works · 71.9% of their workGeophysics: 97 works · 55.7% of their workGeology: 11 works · 6.5% of their workOceanography: 9 works · 5.4% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 8 works · 4.3% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 4.1% of their workOcean Engineering: 7 works · 4.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 3.5% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 6 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 20.5% of their workTHEIR WORKR. B. Whitmarsh175works
Physical Sciences80%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences12671.9%
    2. Engineering74.1%
    3. Environmental Science63.5%
  2. Everything else3620.5%
  1. 1Geophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Geology6% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography5% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes4% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. B. Whitmarsh's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Subduction, Tectonics, Earthquakes, Plate Boundaries, Geochronology, Zircon and Tomography.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Plate Tectonics853 topics
  2. Subduction842 topics
  3. Tectonics632 topics
  4. Earthquakes561 topic
  5. Plate Boundaries561 topic
  6. Geochronology471 topic
  7. Zircon471 topic
  8. Tomography362 topics
  9. Western Mediterranean281 topic
  10. geodynamics281 topic
  11. Full-Waveform Tomography241 topic
  12. Seismic Waveform Inversion241 topic
  13. Cenozoic Evolution201 topic
  14. Rifting201 topic
  15. Crystal Structure Prediction181 topic
  16. Mantle Dynamics181 topic
  17. Seismic Noise181 topic
  18. Surface Wave181 topic
  19. Fluvial Systems161 topic
  20. Sedimentation161 topic

Where does R. B. Whitmarsh work?

R. B. Whitmarsh's main affiliation in the publication record is National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does R. B. Whitmarsh have?

OpenAlex counts 175 works and 5,952 citations for R. B. Whitmarsh, an h-index of 42, ranking #742,254 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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