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Researcher · Goddard Space Flight Center · United States

B. J. Mattson

B. J. Mattson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

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World rank
#5,318,516
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,355,518
of 1,627,098
Works
23
Citations
4.5k
Citations per work
196.5
h-index
5
i10-index 5Top 84% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
B. J. Mattson

What does B. J. Mattson research?

B. J. Mattson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (63%), Engineering (11%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 18 works · 78.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 works · 63.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 11 works · 47.8% of their workInstrumentation: 2 works · 8.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 works · 6.5% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 10.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 3 works · 10.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 4.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 17.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 4.3% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 4.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKB. J. Mattson23works
Physical Sciences78%Social Sciences4%

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. Physics and Astronomy1463.0%
    2. Engineering310.9%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.3%
  2. Everything else417.5%
    1. Psychology14.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics48% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics11% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation9% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe B. J. Mattson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Accretion Disks, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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. Black Holes72 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts61 topic
  3. Supernovae61 topic
  4. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  5. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  6. Accretion Disks41 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  8. Spectrograph41 topic
  9. X-Ray Astronomy41 topic
  10. Cosmology31 topic
  11. Galaxies31 topic
  12. Radio Astronomy31 topic
  13. Transits of Venus31 topic
  14. Ozone Depletion21 topic
  15. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  16. Stratospheric Water Vapor21 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets21 topic

Where does B. J. Mattson work?

B. J. Mattson's main affiliation in the publication record is Goddard Space Flight Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does B. J. Mattson have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 4,519 citations for B. J. Mattson, an h-index of 5, ranking #5,318,516 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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