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Researcher · G & A Technical Software (United States) · United States

David C. Fritts

David C. Fritts publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography, on topics such as Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

ORCID 0000-0002-6402-105X OpenAlex
World rank
#159,625
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#60,017
of 1,627,098
Works
516
Citations
22k
Citations per work
42.0
h-index
75
i10-index 277Top 1.9% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
David C. Fritts

What does David C. Fritts research?

David C. Fritts's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (42%), Physics and Astronomy (38%), Environmental Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 453 works · 87.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 215 works · 41.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 113 works · 21.9% of their workOceanography: 77 works · 15.0% of their workGeophysics: 25 works · 4.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 198 works · 38.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 198 works · 38.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 23 works · 4.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 23 works · 4.5% of their workEngineering: 17 works · 3.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 17 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 63 works · 12.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid C. Fritts516works
Physical Sciences88%

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 Sciences21541.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy19838.3%
    3. Environmental Science234.5%
    4. Engineering173.3%
  2. Everything else6312.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics38% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science22% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography15% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics5% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change4% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David C. Fritts's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar Wind, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Kalman Filter and Ozone Depletion.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar Wind5052 topics
  2. Ionosphere3501 topic
  3. Magnetosphere3501 topic
  4. Coronal Mass Ejections1551 topic
  5. Solar Dynamics Observatory1551 topic
  6. Data Assimilation1451 topic
  7. Ensemble Kalman Filter1451 topic
  8. Ozone Depletion1241 topic
  9. Stratospheric Water Vapor1241 topic
  10. GRACE1101 topic
  11. Sea Level Rise1101 topic
  12. Ocean Waves701 topic
  13. Wind Stress701 topic
  14. Aerosols421 topic
  15. Climate421 topic
  16. Geomagnetic Field401 topic
  17. Magnetosome Formation401 topic

Where does David C. Fritts work?

David C. Fritts's main affiliation in the publication record is G & A Technical Software (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does David C. Fritts have?

OpenAlex counts 516 works and 21,660 citations for David C. Fritts, an h-index of 75, ranking #159,625 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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