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Researcher · Washington Center · United States

Ralph Willard Imlay

Ralph Willard Imlay publishes mostly in Paleontology, Ecology and Geophysics, on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Isotope Analysis in Ecology and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,355,697
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#700,500
of 1,627,098
Works
87
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
29.3
h-index
31
i10-index 64Top 9.4% in Paleontology
Ralph Willard Imlay

What does Ralph Willard Imlay research?

Ralph Willard Imlay's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (53%), Environmental Science (12%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 56 works · 64.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 46 works · 52.8% of their workPaleontology: 22 works · 25.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 8 works · 9.2% of their workGeology: 8 works · 9.2% of their workGeophysics: 8 works · 9.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 10 works · 11.7% of their workEcology: 10 works · 11.7% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 29.7% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 5.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 5.8% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRalph WillardImlay87works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences64%

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 Sciences4652.8%
    2. Environmental Science1011.7%
  2. Everything else2629.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences55.8%
  1. 1Paleontology25% of their works
  2. 2Ecology12% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics9% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science9% of their works
  5. 5Geology9% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralph Willard Imlay's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Paleoproductivity, Paleoredox, Tectonics, Stable Isotopes, Trophic Position, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology and Arctic.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Paleoproductivity431 topic
  2. Paleoredox431 topic
  3. Tectonics262 topics
  4. Stable Isotopes201 topic
  5. Trophic Position201 topic
  6. Climate Change191 topic
  7. Paleoclimatology191 topic
  8. Arctic181 topic
  9. geology181 topic
  10. Andean Geodynamics111 topic
  11. Caribbean Plate Boundary111 topic
  12. Cyperus81 topic
  13. Geochronology81 topic
  14. Phylogeny81 topic
  15. Zircon81 topic
  16. Camouflage71 topic
  17. Cephalopods71 topic

Where does Ralph Willard Imlay work?

Ralph Willard Imlay's main affiliation in the publication record is Washington Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ralph Willard Imlay have?

OpenAlex counts 87 works and 2,548 citations for Ralph Willard Imlay, an h-index of 31, ranking #2,355,697 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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