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Brian Cairns

Brian Cairns publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes, on topics such as Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

World rank
#591,388
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#187,018
of 358,040
Works
93
Citations
266
Citations per work
2.9

What does Brian Cairns research?

Global and Planetary Change: 38.0%Atmospheric Science: 38.0%Earth-Surface Processes: 5.6%Aerospace Engineering: 2.8%other fields: 15.6%38%top field
Global and Planetary Change38.0%Atmospheric Science38.0%Earth-Surface Processes5.6%Aerospace Engineering2.8%other fields15.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Global and Planetary Change38% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science38% of their works
  3. 3Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Ecology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian Cairns's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Air Quality, Satellite Observations, Remote Sensing, Climate, Aerosols, Hydrological Cycle, Atmospheric Aerosols and Black Carbon.

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. Air Quality562 topics
  2. Satellite Observations402 topics
  3. Remote Sensing363 topics
  4. Climate342 topics
  5. Aerosols321 topic
  6. Hydrological Cycle321 topic
  7. Atmospheric Aerosols241 topic
  8. Black Carbon241 topic
  9. Ozone Depletion121 topic
  10. Stratospheric Water Vapor121 topic
  11. Climate Change82 topics
  12. Emissions81 topic
  13. Methane81 topic
  14. Aeolian Processes61 topic
  15. Wind Erosion61 topic
  16. On-Orbit Performance31 topic
  17. Radiometric Calibration31 topic
  18. Glacier21 topic
  19. Phenology21 topic
  20. Vegetation Monitoring21 topic
  21. Water Availability21 topic

Where does Brian Cairns work?

Brian Cairns's main affiliation in the publication record is Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brian Cairns have?

Science Explorer counts 93 works and 266 citations for Brian Cairns, ranking #591,388 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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