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Researcher · University of Puget Sound · United States

Alan S. Thorndike

Alan S. Thorndike publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Oceanography, on topics such as Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Cryospheric studies and observations and Climate change and permafrost.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,936,960
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#590,378
of 1,627,098
Works
48
Citations
3k
Citations per work
62.4
h-index
20
i10-index 26Top 29% in Atmospheric Science
Alan S. Thorndike

What does Alan S. Thorndike research?

Alan S. Thorndike's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (60%), Physics and Astronomy (10%), Environmental Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 36 works · 74.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 29 works · 60.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 26 works · 55.1% of their workOceanography: 2 works · 5.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 works · 10.3% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4 works · 7.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 works · 2.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 4.4% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 22.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 2.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 2.9% of their workArcheology: 1 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan S. Thorndike48works
Physical Sciences75%Social Sciences3%

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 Sciences2960.2%
    2. Physics and Astronomy510.3%
    3. Environmental Science24.4%
  2. Everything else1122.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities12.9%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science55% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography5% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Chemistry4% of their works
  5. 5Archeology3% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan S. Thorndike's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Arctic, Hydrology, Ocean Circulation, Decline, Sea Ice and Glacier.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change824 topics
  2. Remote Sensing602 topics
  3. Arctic503 topics
  4. Hydrology402 topics
  5. Ocean Circulation362 topics
  6. Decline341 topic
  7. Sea Ice341 topic
  8. Glacier261 topic
  9. Water Availability261 topic
  10. Carbon Feedback141 topic
  11. Permafrost141 topic
  12. Optics81 topic
  13. Spectroscopy81 topic
  14. Anaerobic61 topic
  15. Methane Oxidation61 topic
  16. Ocean Waves21 topic
  17. Oceanic Modeling21 topic
  18. Tectonics21 topic
  19. Tidal Analysis21 topic
  20. Wind Stress21 topic
  21. geology21 topic

Where does Alan S. Thorndike work?

Alan S. Thorndike's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Puget Sound, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan S. Thorndike have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 2,993 citations for Alan S. Thorndike, an h-index of 20, ranking #1,936,960 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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