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Researcher · Museums Victoria · Australia

W. D. Birch

W. D. Birch publishes mostly in Geochemistry and Petrology, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Crystal Structures and Properties, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

ORCID 0000-0002-6313-7499 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,880,635
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#127,254
of 140,210
Works
14
Citations
88
Citations per work
6.3
h-index
6
i10-index 3Top 79% in Geochemistry and Petrology
W. D. Birch

What does W. D. Birch research?

W. D. Birch's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (31%), Materials Science (21%), Computer Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 8 works · 59.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 30.9% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 works · 16.7% of their workGeophysics: 1 works · 7.1% of their workPaleontology: 1 works · 7.1% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 21.4% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 2 works · 14.3% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 7.1% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 7.1% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 40.6% of their workTHEIR WORKW. D. Birch14works
Physical Sciences59%

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 Sciences430.9%
    2. Materials Science321.4%
    3. Computer Science17.1%
  2. Everything else640.6%
  1. 1Geochemistry and Petrology17% of their works
  2. 2Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials14% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology7% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics7% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. D. Birch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geochemistry, Crystallographic Computing, Nonlinear Optical Materials, Adsorption, Manganese Oxides, Rare Earth Elements, Gemstones and Geochronology.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Geochemistry72 topics
  2. Crystallographic Computing61 topic
  3. Nonlinear Optical Materials61 topic
  4. Adsorption42 topics
  5. Manganese Oxides41 topic
  6. Rare Earth Elements41 topic
  7. Gemstones31 topic
  8. Geochronology31 topic
  9. Machine Learning31 topic
  10. Mineral Prospectivity31 topic
  11. Petrology31 topic
  12. Zircon31 topic
  13. Actinides21 topic
  14. Cesium Removal21 topic
  15. Ion Exchange21 topic
  16. Paleoproductivity21 topic
  17. Paleoredox21 topic
  18. Uranium21 topic

Where does W. D. Birch work?

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

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

OpenAlex counts 14 works and 88 citations for W. D. Birch, an h-index of 6, ranking #5,880,635 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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