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Ralf Littke

Ralf Littke publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Chemistry and Geology, on topics such as Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena and Geological Studies and Exploration.

World rank
#80,806
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#5,269
of 86,443
Works
136
Citations
944
Citations per work
6.9

What does Ralf Littke research?

Mechanics of Materials: 26.2%Environmental Chemistry: 8.2%Geology: 8.2%Geophysics: 8.2%other fields: 49.2%26%top field
Mechanics of Materials26.2%Environmental Chemistry8.2%Geology8.2%Geophysics8.2%other fields49.2%

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

  1. 1Mechanics of Materials26% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Chemistry8% of their works
  3. 3Geology8% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics8% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralf Littke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pore Structure, Mudstones, Shale Gas, Petroleum, Anaerobic, Methane Oxidation, Arctic and geology.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Pore Structure542 topics
  2. Mudstones481 topic
  3. Shale Gas481 topic
  4. Petroleum182 topics
  5. Anaerobic131 topic
  6. Methane Oxidation131 topic
  7. Arctic111 topic
  8. geology111 topic
  9. Machine Learning91 topic
  10. Mineral Prospectivity91 topic
  11. Hydraulic Fracturing81 topic
  12. Shale Gas Reservoirs81 topic
  13. Asphaltenes71 topic
  14. Naphthenic Acids71 topic
  15. CO2 Sequestration61 topic
  16. Coalbed Methane61 topic
  17. Paleoproductivity61 topic
  18. Paleoredox61 topic

Where does Ralf Littke work?

Ralf Littke's main affiliation in the publication record is RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Ralf Littke have?

Science Explorer counts 136 works and 944 citations for Ralf Littke, ranking #80,806 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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