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Researcher · Shell (Canada) · Canada

Simon O’Brien

Simon O’Brien publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Geophysics and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,230,584
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#73,544
of 183,316
Works
25
Citations
376
Citations per work
15.0
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 46% in Ocean Engineering
Simon O’Brien

What does Simon O’Brien research?

Simon O’Brien's work is mostly in Engineering (36%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%), Environmental Science (18%).

Physical Sciences: 19 works · 75.8% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 36.4% of their workOcean Engineering: 5 works · 21.2% of their workMechanical Engineering: 4 works · 15.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 21.2% of their workGeophysics: 5 works · 18.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 3.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 18.2% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 works · 18.2% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 19.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 4.5% of their workDecision Sciences: 1 works · 4.5% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon O’Brien25works
Physical Sciences76%Social Sciences4%

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. Engineering936.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences521.2%
    3. Environmental Science518.2%
  2. Everything else519.7%
    1. Decision Sciences14.5%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering21% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics18% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering18% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering15% of their works
  5. 5Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty4% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon O’Brien's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: CO2 Sequestration, Carbon Capture, Geological Storage, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion and Drilling Fluids.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. CO2 Sequestration172 topics
  2. Carbon Capture121 topic
  3. Geological Storage121 topic
  4. Hydraulic Fracturing81 topic
  5. Shale Gas Reservoirs81 topic
  6. Full-Waveform Tomography61 topic
  7. Seismic Waveform Inversion61 topic
  8. Drilling Fluids51 topic
  9. Seismic Noise51 topic
  10. Tomography51 topic
  11. Well Integrity51 topic
  12. Ensemble Kalman Filter41 topic
  13. Optimization41 topic
  14. Pore-scale Modeling31 topic
  15. X-ray Computed Tomography31 topic
  16. Machine Learning21 topic
  17. Seismic Signals21 topic

Where does Simon O’Brien work?

Simon O’Brien's main affiliation in the publication record is Shell (Canada), Canada.

How many publications and citations does Simon O’Brien have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 376 citations for Simon O’Brien, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,230,584 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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