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Researcher · LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics · Germany

W. Kessels

W. Kessels publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Geophysics and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis.

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World rank
#2,224,200
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#109,784
of 364,343
Works
36
Citations
828
Citations per work
23.0
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 39% in Ocean Engineering
W. Kessels

What does W. Kessels research?

W. Kessels's work is mostly in Engineering (34%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%), Environmental Science (12%).

Physical Sciences: 24 works · 67.6% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 34.3% of their workOcean Engineering: 7 works · 18.6% of their workMechanical Engineering: 4 works · 10.8% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 works · 4.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 21.5% of their workGeophysics: 5 works · 13.7% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 3 works · 7.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 11.8% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 works · 11.8% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 32.4% of their workTHEIR WORKW. Kessels36works
Physical Sciences68%

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. Engineering1234.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences821.5%
    3. Environmental Science411.8%
  2. Everything else1232.4%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering19% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics14% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering11% of their works
  5. 5Geochemistry and Petrology8% of their works
  6. 6Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. Kessels's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: CO2 Sequestration, Groundwater Flow, Transport Modeling, Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Coal Permeability, Coalbed Methane and Hydraulic Fracturing.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. CO2 Sequestration112 topics
  2. Groundwater Flow111 topic
  3. Transport Modeling111 topic
  4. Full-Waveform Tomography71 topic
  5. Seismic Waveform Inversion71 topic
  6. Coal Permeability61 topic
  7. Coalbed Methane61 topic
  8. Hydraulic Fracturing61 topic
  9. Shale Gas Reservoirs61 topic
  10. Drilling Fluids51 topic
  11. Groundwater51 topic
  12. Isotopes51 topic
  13. Well Integrity51 topic
  14. Ground-Penetrating Radar41 topic
  15. Sedimentology41 topic
  16. Smoke Control41 topic
  17. Tunnel Fires41 topic

Where does W. Kessels work?

W. Kessels's main affiliation in the publication record is LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does W. Kessels have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 828 citations for W. Kessels, an h-index of 10, ranking #2,224,200 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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