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Researcher · Santa Fe Institute · United States

Geoffrey B. West

Geoffrey B. West publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Ecology and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions and Physiological and biochemical adaptations.

OpenAlex
World rank
#119,396
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#45,490
of 1,627,098
Works
294
Citations
41k
Citations per work
139.9
h-index
60
i10-index 117Top 8.4% in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Geoffrey B. West

What does Geoffrey B. West research?

Geoffrey B. West's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (26%), Environmental Science (10%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%).

Everything else: 163 works · 55.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 106 works · 36.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 77 works · 26.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 66 works · 22.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10 works · 3.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 29 works · 10.0% of their workEcology: 17 works · 5.9% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 12 works · 4.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 8.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 14 works · 4.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 14 works · 4.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 10 works · 3.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 10 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKGeoffrey B. West294works
Physical Sciences36%Social Sciences8%

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. Everything else16355.6%
    1. Physics and Astronomy7726.1%
    2. Environmental Science2910.0%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance144.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities103.4%
  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics23% of their works
  2. 2Ecology6% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Geoffrey B. West's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Lattice QCD, High-Energy Collider, Particle Physics, Climate Change, charmonium, QCD, Metabolic Rate and Temperature.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Lattice QCD702 topics
  2. High-Energy Collider561 topic
  3. Particle Physics561 topic
  4. Climate Change522 topics
  5. QCD451 topic
  6. charmonium451 topic
  7. Metabolic Rate391 topic
  8. Temperature391 topic
  9. Heavy-Ion Collisions251 topic
  10. Quark-Gluon Plasma251 topic
  11. Econophysics161 topic
  12. Multifractal Analysis161 topic
  13. Drought131 topic
  14. Nuclear Forces131 topic
  15. Nuclear Structure131 topic
  16. Tree Mortality131 topic
  17. Emergy Analysis121 topic
  18. Urban Metabolism121 topic

Where does Geoffrey B. West work?

Geoffrey B. West's main affiliation in the publication record is Santa Fe Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Geoffrey B. West have?

OpenAlex counts 294 works and 41,118 citations for Geoffrey B. West, an h-index of 60, ranking #119,396 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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