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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

Wilbur H. Somerton

Wilbur H. Somerton publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#810,887
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#270,259
of 1,627,098
Works
44
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
40.5
h-index
17
i10-index 23Top 14% in Ocean Engineering
Wilbur H. Somerton

What does Wilbur H. Somerton research?

Wilbur H. Somerton's work is mostly in Engineering (58%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%), Energy (6%).

Physical Sciences: 35 works · 78.6% of their workEngineering: 26 works · 58.5% of their workOcean Engineering: 10 works · 23.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 9 works · 20.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 6 works · 14.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 8.5% of their workGeophysics: 4 works · 8.5% of their workEnergy: 3 works · 6.2% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 works · 6.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 5.4% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 21.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWilbur H.Somerton44works
Physical Sciences79%

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. Engineering2658.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences48.5%
    3. Energy36.2%
    4. Environmental Science25.4%
  2. Everything else921.4%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering23% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials21% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering15% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics8% of their works
  5. 5Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment6% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wilbur H. Somerton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: CO2 Sequestration, Drilling Fluids, Well Integrity, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Pore Structure, Shale Gas and Pore-scale Modeling.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. CO2 Sequestration212 topics
  2. Drilling Fluids151 topic
  3. Well Integrity151 topic
  4. Hydraulic Fracturing141 topic
  5. Shale Gas Reservoirs141 topic
  6. Pore Structure121 topic
  7. Shale Gas121 topic
  8. Pore-scale Modeling111 topic
  9. X-ray Computed Tomography111 topic
  10. Fracture91 topic
  11. Rock Mechanics91 topic
  12. Geothermal Energy81 topic
  13. Ground Source Heat Pump81 topic
  14. Carbon Capture61 topic
  15. Geological Storage61 topic
  16. Asphaltenes41 topic
  17. Petroleum41 topic

Where does Wilbur H. Somerton work?

Wilbur H. Somerton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wilbur H. Somerton have?

OpenAlex counts 44 works and 1,784 citations for Wilbur H. Somerton, an h-index of 17, ranking #810,887 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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