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Researcher · United States Geological Survey · United States

W. H. Prescott

W. H. Prescott publishes mostly in Geophysics, History and Visual Arts and Performing Arts, on topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Latin American history and culture and Seismic Waves and Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-0283-8814 OpenAlex
World rank
#305,733
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#110,798
of 1,627,098
Works
274
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
17.9
h-index
39
i10-index 87Top 5.2% in Geophysics
W. H. Prescott

What does W. H. Prescott research?

W. H. Prescott's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (34%), Arts and Humanities (20%), Social Sciences (9%).

Physical Sciences: 105 works · 38.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 93 works · 34.0% of their workGeophysics: 93 works · 34.0% of their workComputer Science: 12 works · 4.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 12 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 90 works · 32.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 79 works · 28.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 55 works · 19.9% of their workHistory: 28 works · 10.2% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 27 works · 9.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 25 works · 9.0% of their workDemography: 13 works · 4.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKW. H. Prescott274works
Physical Sciences38%Social Sciences29%

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 Sciences9334.0%
    2. Computer Science124.2%
  2. Everything else9032.9%
    1. Arts and Humanities5519.9%
    2. Social Sciences259.0%
  1. 1Geophysics34% of their works
  2. 2History10% of their works
  3. 3Visual Arts and Performing Arts10% of their works
  4. 4Demography5% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. H. Prescott's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Earthquakes, Subduction, Tomography, Plate Tectonics, Colonial Spanish America, Visual Culture, Seismic Noise and Surface Wave.

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. Earthquakes801 topic
  2. Subduction801 topic
  3. Tomography722 topics
  4. Plate Tectonics712 topics
  5. Colonial Spanish America621 topic
  6. Visual Culture621 topic
  7. Seismic Noise401 topic
  8. Surface Wave401 topic
  9. Geochronology391 topic
  10. Zircon391 topic
  11. Crystal Structure Prediction321 topic
  12. Mantle Dynamics321 topic
  13. Hispanic World271 topic
  14. Independence271 topic
  15. Golden Age Spain251 topic
  16. Literature251 topic
  17. Machine Learning241 topic
  18. Seismic Signals241 topic

Where does W. H. Prescott work?

W. H. Prescott's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Geological Survey, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. H. Prescott have?

OpenAlex counts 274 works and 4,895 citations for W. H. Prescott, an h-index of 39, ranking #305,733 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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