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Researcher · National Oceanography Centre · United Kingdom

Sheldon Bacon

Sheldon Bacon publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0002-2471-9373 OpenAlex
World rank
#123,452
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#11,020
of 367,258
Works
189
Citations
8.6k
Citations per work
45.8
h-index
55
i10-index 82Top 3.2% in Atmospheric Science
Sheldon Bacon

What does Sheldon Bacon research?

Sheldon Bacon's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (69%), Environmental Science (21%), Social Sciences (1%).

Physical Sciences: 170 works · 90.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 131 works · 69.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 75 works · 39.5% of their workOceanography: 45 works · 23.6% of their workGeology: 12 works · 6.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 40 works · 21.0% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 20 works · 10.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 20 works · 10.5% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 8.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 1.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 1.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 1.4% of their workTHEIR WORKSheldon Bacon189works
Physical Sciences90%Social Sciences1%

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 Sciences13169.2%
    2. Environmental Science4021.0%
  2. Everything else168.4%
    1. Social Sciences31.4%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science40% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography24% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change10% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry10% of their works
  5. 5Geology6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sheldon Bacon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Ocean Circulation, Arctic, Remote Sensing, Decline, Sea Ice, Oceanic Modeling and Tidal Analysis.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change2215 topics
  2. Ocean Circulation2153 topics
  3. Arctic1593 topics
  4. Remote Sensing1242 topics
  5. Decline1031 topic
  6. Sea Ice1031 topic
  7. Oceanic Modeling811 topic
  8. Tidal Analysis811 topic
  9. Anaerobic511 topic
  10. Methane Oxidation511 topic
  11. Hydrology472 topics
  12. Glacial Cycles401 topic
  13. Paleoclimatology401 topic
  14. Extreme Events311 topic
  15. Global Warming311 topic
  16. Tectonics301 topic
  17. geology301 topic
  18. Carbon Feedback261 topic
  19. Permafrost261 topic
  20. Glacier211 topic
  21. Water Availability211 topic

Where does Sheldon Bacon work?

Sheldon Bacon's main affiliation in the publication record is National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Sheldon Bacon have?

OpenAlex counts 189 works and 8,647 citations for Sheldon Bacon, an h-index of 55, ranking #123,452 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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