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Researcher · Unité Matériaux et Transformations · France

Sébastien Merkel

Sébastien Merkel publishes mostly in Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and earthquake and tectonic studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-2767-581X OpenAlex
World rank
#1,044,116
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#64,544
of 96,116
Works
84
Citations
71
Citations per work
0.8

What does Sébastien Merkel research?

Geophysics: 45.3%Mechanics of Materials: 10.5%Materials Chemistry: 10.5%Mechanical Engineering: 7.0%other fields: 26.7%45%top field
Geophysics45.3%Mechanics of Materials10.5%Materials Chemistry10.5%Mechanical Engineering7.0%other fields26.7%

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

  1. 1Geophysics45% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Geology4% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sébastien Merkel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Crystal Structure Prediction, Mantle Dynamics, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Mechanical Properties and Earthquakes.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Plate Tectonics322 topics
  2. Crystal Structure Prediction191 topic
  3. Mantle Dynamics191 topic
  4. Tectonics162 topics
  5. Geochronology131 topic
  6. Zircon131 topic
  7. Mechanical Properties72 topics
  8. Earthquakes61 topic
  9. Subduction61 topic
  10. Nanoindentation41 topic
  11. Thin Films41 topic
  12. Arctic31 topic
  13. Cemented Carbides31 topic
  14. Sintering31 topic
  15. geology31 topic
  16. Nanocrystalline Materials21 topic
  17. Pore Structure21 topic
  18. Severe Plastic Deformation21 topic
  19. Shale Gas21 topic

Where does Sébastien Merkel work?

Sébastien Merkel's main affiliation in the publication record is Unité Matériaux et Transformations, France.

How many publications and citations does Sébastien Merkel have?

Science Explorer counts 84 works and 71 citations for Sébastien Merkel, ranking #1,044,116 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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