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Researcher · The University of Sydney · Australia

Simon E. Williams

Simon E. Williams publishes mostly in Geophysics, Geology and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geological and Geophysical Studies and earthquake and tectonic studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-4670-8883 OpenAlex
World rank
#94,013
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#3,069
of 140,210
Works
299
Citations
12k
Citations per work
39.5
h-index
50
i10-index 101Top 2.2% in Geophysics
Simon E. Williams

What does Simon E. Williams research?

Simon E. Williams's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (64%), Computer Science (4%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%).

Physical Sciences: 203 works · 68.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 190 works · 63.6% of their workGeophysics: 118 works · 39.3% of their workGeology: 41 works · 13.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 17 works · 5.7% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 15 works · 5.0% of their workComputer Science: 13 works · 4.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 13 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 87 works · 29.0% of their workLife Sciences: 9 works · 3.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 works · 3.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 9 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon E. Williams299works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences68%

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 Sciences19063.6%
    2. Computer Science134.4%
  2. Everything else8729.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology93.0%
  1. 1Geophysics39% of their works
  2. 2Geology14% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  4. 4Earth-Surface Processes5% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon E. Williams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Continental Margin, Crustal Structure, Cenozoic Evolution 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. 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Plate Tectonics2493 topics
  2. Tectonics1823 topics
  3. Geochronology1161 topic
  4. Zircon1161 topic
  5. Continental Margin1032 topics
  6. Crustal Structure1032 topics
  7. Cenozoic Evolution751 topic
  8. Earthquakes751 topic
  9. Rifting751 topic
  10. Subduction751 topic
  11. Crystal Structure Prediction581 topic
  12. Mantle Dynamics581 topic
  13. Climate Change411 topic
  14. Paleoclimatology411 topic
  15. Fluvial Systems381 topic
  16. Sedimentation381 topic
  17. Arctic281 topic
  18. geology281 topic
  19. Geomagnetic Field231 topic
  20. Magnetosome Formation231 topic

Where does Simon E. Williams work?

Simon E. Williams's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Sydney, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Simon E. Williams have?

OpenAlex counts 299 works and 11,816 citations for Simon E. Williams, an h-index of 50, ranking #94,013 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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