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Researcher · Jet Propulsion Laboratory · United States

Eric J. Rignot

Eric J. Rignot publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Cryospheric studies and observations, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-3366-0481 OpenAlex
World rank
#46,994
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,116
of 1,627,098
Works
755
Citations
50k
Citations per work
65.8
h-index
105
i10-index 285Top 0.1% in Atmospheric Science
Eric J. Rignot

What does Eric J. Rignot research?

Eric J. Rignot's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (53%), Environmental Science (13%), Medicine (13%).

Physical Sciences: 541 works · 71.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 403 works · 53.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 403 works · 53.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 100 works · 13.3% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 54 works · 7.1% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 23 works · 3.1% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 23 works · 3.1% of their workEngineering: 38 works · 5.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 38 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 115 works · 15.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 99 works · 13.1% of their workMedicine: 99 works · 13.1% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 99 works · 13.1% of their workTHEIR WORKEric J. Rignot755works
Physical Sciences72%Health Sciences13%

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 Sciences40353.4%
    2. Environmental Science10013.3%
    3. Engineering385.0%
  2. Everything else11515.2%
    1. Medicine9913.1%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science53% of their works
  2. 2Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine13% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry3% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Eric J. Rignot's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Glacier, Water Availability, Arctic, Skiing and Snowboarding.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change1,1104 topics
  2. Remote Sensing9863 topics
  3. Hydrology7342 topics
  4. Glacier5691 topic
  5. Water Availability5691 topic
  6. Arctic4362 topics
  7. Skiing2751 topic
  8. Snowboarding2751 topic
  9. Decline2711 topic
  10. Sea Ice2711 topic
  11. Carbon Feedback1651 topic
  12. Permafrost1651 topic
  13. Hazard1461 topic
  14. Landslide1461 topic
  15. Glacial Cycles1051 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology1051 topic
  17. Anaerobic661 topic
  18. Methane Oxidation661 topic
  19. SAR Interferometry611 topic
  20. Surface Deformation Monitoring611 topic

Where does Eric J. Rignot work?

Eric J. Rignot's main affiliation in the publication record is Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Eric J. Rignot have?

OpenAlex counts 755 works and 49,661 citations for Eric J. Rignot, an h-index of 105, ranking #46,994 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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