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Researcher · University of Stavanger · Norway

Tor Austad

Tor Austad publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Organic Chemistry, on topics such as Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#90,142
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#449
of 33,005
Works
177
Citations
13k
Citations per work
73.7
h-index
57
i10-index 112Top 0.2% in Ocean Engineering
Tor Austad

What does Tor Austad research?

Tor Austad's work is mostly in Engineering (58%), Chemistry (26%), Environmental Science (2%).

Physical Sciences: 152 works · 85.7% of their workEngineering: 102 works · 57.6% of their workOcean Engineering: 50 works · 28.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 31 works · 17.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 22 works · 12.2% of their workChemistry: 45 works · 25.7% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 29 works · 16.2% of their workAnalytical Chemistry: 17 works · 9.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 2.4% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 4 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 14.3% of their workTHEIR WORKTor Austad177works
Physical Sciences86%

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. Engineering10257.6%
    2. Chemistry4525.7%
    3. Environmental Science42.4%
  2. Everything else2514.3%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering28% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials17% of their works
  3. 3Organic Chemistry16% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering12% of their works
  5. 5Analytical Chemistry10% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tor Austad's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Surfactants, Pore-scale Modeling, X-ray Computed Tomography, Pore Structure, Shale Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs and Asphaltenes.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Surfactants1262 topics
  2. Pore-scale Modeling1101 topic
  3. X-ray Computed Tomography1101 topic
  4. Pore Structure851 topic
  5. Shale Gas851 topic
  6. Hydraulic Fracturing601 topic
  7. Shale Gas Reservoirs601 topic
  8. Asphaltenes461 topic
  9. Petroleum461 topic
  10. Organic Synthesis232 topics
  11. Ensemble Kalman Filter211 topic
  12. Optimization211 topic
  13. Micelles161 topic
  14. Self-Assembly161 topic
  15. Catalysis131 topic
  16. Functional Group Transformations131 topic
  17. Acidity Scales101 topic
  18. Nucleophilicity101 topic

Where does Tor Austad work?

Tor Austad's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Stavanger, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Tor Austad have?

OpenAlex counts 177 works and 13,052 citations for Tor Austad, an h-index of 57, ranking #90,142 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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