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Researcher · Museums Victoria · Australia

William D. Birch

William D. Birch publishes mostly in Geophysics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Crystal Structures and Properties and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

ORCID 0000-0002-7723-3537 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,756,441
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#96,191
of 140,210
Works
136
Citations
7k
Citations per work
51.6
h-index
21
i10-index 50Top 21% in Geophysics
William D. Birch

What does William D. Birch research?

William D. Birch's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (28%), Materials Science (18%), Computer Science (10%).

Physical Sciences: 82 works · 60.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 39 works · 28.5% of their workGeophysics: 29 works · 21.2% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 10 works · 7.3% of their workMaterials Science: 25 works · 18.2% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 17 works · 12.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 8 works · 6.0% of their workComputer Science: 13 works · 9.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 13 works · 9.5% of their workChemistry: 6 works · 4.3% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 6 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 54 works · 39.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam D. Birch136works
Physical Sciences60%

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 Sciences3928.5%
    2. Materials Science2518.2%
    3. Computer Science139.5%
    4. Chemistry64.3%
  2. Everything else5439.5%
  1. 1Geophysics21% of their works
  2. 2Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials12% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence10% of their works
  4. 4Geochemistry and Petrology7% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  6. 6Inorganic Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William D. Birch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geochronology, Zircon, Crystallographic Computing, Nonlinear Optical Materials, Machine Learning, Mineral Prospectivity, Gemstones and Geochemistry.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Geochronology611 topic
  2. Zircon611 topic
  3. Crystallographic Computing431 topic
  4. Nonlinear Optical Materials431 topic
  5. Machine Learning351 topic
  6. Mineral Prospectivity351 topic
  7. Gemstones191 topic
  8. Geochemistry191 topic
  9. Clay Nanotubes151 topic
  10. Halloysite151 topic
  11. Actinides131 topic
  12. Uranium131 topic
  13. Climate Change111 topic
  14. Paleoclimatology111 topic
  15. Bioleaching101 topic
  16. Microbial Communities101 topic

Where does William D. Birch work?

William D. Birch's main affiliation in the publication record is Museums Victoria, Australia.

How many publications and citations does William D. Birch have?

OpenAlex counts 136 works and 7,016 citations for William D. Birch, an h-index of 21, ranking #3,756,441 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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