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Researcher · Houston Advanced Research Center · United States

Walter Kessinger

Walter Kessinger publishes mostly in Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Oceanography, on topics such as Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Seismic Waves and Analysis and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,535,454
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,391,675
of 1,627,098
Works
23
Citations
637
Citations per work
27.7
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 83% in Geophysics
Walter Kessinger

What does Walter Kessinger research?

Walter Kessinger's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (48%), Engineering (16%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 15 works · 64.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 works · 48.5% of their workGeophysics: 8 works · 35.9% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 works · 6.3% of their workOceanography: 1 works · 6.3% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 15.6% of their workOcean Engineering: 3 works · 10.9% of their workMechanical Engineering: 1 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 32.8% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 3.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 3.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter Kessinger23works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences64%

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 Sciences1148.5%
    2. Engineering415.6%
  2. Everything else832.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.1%
  1. 1Geophysics36% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography6% of their works
  4. 4Geochemistry and Petrology6% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter Kessinger's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Seismic Noise, Tomography, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Optimization, Geological Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis.

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. Full-Waveform Tomography141 topic
  2. Seismic Waveform Inversion141 topic
  3. Seismic Noise71 topic
  4. Tomography71 topic
  5. Ensemble Kalman Filter51 topic
  6. Optimization51 topic
  7. Geological Modeling41 topic
  8. Uncertainty Analysis41 topic
  9. Hydraulic Fracturing31 topic
  10. Shale Gas Reservoirs31 topic
  11. Acoustic Techniques21 topic
  12. Drilling Fluids21 topic
  13. GRACE21 topic
  14. Sea Level Rise21 topic
  15. Seafloor Mapping21 topic
  16. Well Integrity21 topic

Where does Walter Kessinger work?

Walter Kessinger's main affiliation in the publication record is Houston Advanced Research Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter Kessinger have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 637 citations for Walter Kessinger, an h-index of 6, ranking #5,535,454 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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