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Researcher · Southwest Research Institute · United States

David Nesvorný

David Nesvorný publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-4547-4301 OpenAlex
World rank
#93,023
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#35,784
of 1,627,098
Works
602
Citations
20k
Citations per work
33.2
h-index
78
i10-index 249Top 1.7% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
David Nesvorný

What does David Nesvorný research?

David Nesvorný's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (75%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 535 works · 88.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 449 works · 74.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 435 works · 72.2% of their workInstrumentation: 14 works · 2.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 42 works · 6.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 22 works · 3.7% of their workGeophysics: 19 works · 3.2% of their workEngineering: 28 works · 4.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 28 works · 4.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 16 works · 2.6% of their workEcology: 16 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 67 works · 11.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Nesvorný602works
Physical Sciences89%

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 Astronomy44974.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences426.9%
    3. Engineering284.7%
    4. Environmental Science162.6%
  2. Everything else6711.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics72% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering5% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science4% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics3% of their works
  5. 5Ecology3% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Nesvorný's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Mars, Martian Surface, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar System Abundances5211 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets5211 topic
  3. Mars3331 topic
  4. Martian Surface3331 topic
  5. Exoplanets2281 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics2281 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds671 topic
  8. Star Formation671 topic
  9. Climate Change591 topic
  10. Paleoclimatology591 topic
  11. Stable Isotopes431 topic
  12. Trophic Position431 topic
  13. Astronomical Instrumentation401 topic
  14. Spectrograph401 topic
  15. Extravehicular Activity391 topic
  16. Space Suit391 topic

Where does David Nesvorný work?

David Nesvorný's main affiliation in the publication record is Southwest Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Nesvorný have?

OpenAlex counts 602 works and 19,986 citations for David Nesvorný, an h-index of 78, ranking #93,023 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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