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Researcher · Geological Survey of Norway · Norway

Trond Helge Torsvik

Trond Helge Torsvik publishes mostly in Geophysics, Molecular Biology and Paleontology, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

ORCID 0000-0002-3094-1405 OpenAlex
World rank
#49,377
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#207
of 33,005
Works
455
Citations
33k
Citations per work
73.4
h-index
93
i10-index 231Top 0.1% in Geophysics
Trond Helge Torsvik

What does Trond Helge Torsvik research?

Trond Helge Torsvik's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (69%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 327 works · 71.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 313 works · 68.9% of their workGeophysics: 184 works · 40.4% of their workPaleontology: 50 works · 11.0% of their workGeology: 40 works · 8.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 39 works · 8.6% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 2.9% of their workMechanics of Materials: 13 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 77 works · 17.0% of their workLife Sciences: 51 works · 11.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 51 works · 11.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 51 works · 11.2% of their workTHEIR WORKTrond HelgeTorsvik455works
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences72%

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 Sciences31368.9%
    2. Engineering132.9%
  2. Everything else7717.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5111.2%
  1. 1Geophysics40% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology11% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology11% of their works
  4. 4Geology9% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science9% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Trond Helge Torsvik's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Geomagnetic Field, Magnetosome Formation, Paleoproductivity and Paleoredox.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Plate Tectonics4403 topics
  2. Tectonics3292 topics
  3. Geochronology2751 topic
  4. Zircon2751 topic
  5. Geomagnetic Field1421 topic
  6. Magnetosome Formation1421 topic
  7. Paleoproductivity1281 topic
  8. Paleoredox1281 topic
  9. Continental Margin1132 topics
  10. Crustal Structure1132 topics
  11. Climate Change1071 topic
  12. Paleoclimatology1071 topic
  13. Crystal Structure Prediction1061 topic
  14. Mantle Dynamics1061 topic
  15. Earthquakes931 topic
  16. Subduction931 topic
  17. Cenozoic Evolution591 topic
  18. Rifting591 topic
  19. Arctic541 topic
  20. geology541 topic

Where does Trond Helge Torsvik work?

Trond Helge Torsvik's main affiliation in the publication record is Geological Survey of Norway, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Trond Helge Torsvik have?

OpenAlex counts 455 works and 33,417 citations for Trond Helge Torsvik, an h-index of 93, ranking #49,377 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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