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Researcher · Mitchell Institute · United States

W. S. Whitehead

W. S. Whitehead publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics, on topics such as Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,370,887
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,170,575
of 1,627,098
Works
28
Citations
299
Citations per work
10.7
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 39% in Ocean Engineering
W. S. Whitehead

What does W. S. Whitehead research?

W. S. Whitehead's work is mostly in Engineering (73%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%), Medicine (1%).

Physical Sciences: 23 works · 83.0% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 73.2% of their workOcean Engineering: 10 works · 34.1% of their workMechanical Engineering: 8 works · 29.3% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 works · 4.9% of their workMechanics of Materials: 1 works · 4.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 9.8% of their workGeophysics: 3 works · 9.8% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 15.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 0 works · 1.2% of their workMedicine: 0 works · 1.2% of their workPhysiology: 0 works · 1.2% of their workTHEIR WORKW. S. Whitehead28works
Physical Sciences83%Health Sciences1%

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. Engineering2073.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences39.8%
  2. Everything else415.8%
    1. Medicine01.2%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering34% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering29% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics10% of their works
  4. 4Civil and Structural Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials5% of their works
  6. 6Physiology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. S. Whitehead's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Drilling Fluids, Well Integrity, Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Ensemble Kalman Filter and Optimization.

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. Hydraulic Fracturing231 topic
  2. Shale Gas Reservoirs231 topic
  3. Drilling Fluids201 topic
  4. Well Integrity201 topic
  5. Full-Waveform Tomography81 topic
  6. Seismic Waveform Inversion81 topic
  7. Ensemble Kalman Filter61 topic
  8. Optimization61 topic
  9. Grouting41 topic
  10. Pore Structure41 topic
  11. Shale Gas41 topic
  12. Tunnel41 topic
  13. Artificial Lift Systems21 topic
  14. Fault Diagnosis21 topic
  15. Geological Modeling11 topic
  16. Uncertainty Analysis11 topic

Where does W. S. Whitehead work?

W. S. Whitehead's main affiliation in the publication record is Mitchell Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. S. Whitehead have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 299 citations for W. S. Whitehead, an h-index of 10, ranking #4,370,887 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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