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Researcher · University of Washington · United States

Joel A. Thornton

Joel A. Thornton publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, on topics such as Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

ORCID 0000-0002-5098-4867 OpenAlex
World rank
#10,689
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,683
of 1,627,098
Works
574
Citations
33k
Citations per work
58.1
h-index
103
i10-index 225Top 0.2% in Atmospheric Science
Joel A. Thornton

What does Joel A. Thornton research?

Joel A. Thornton's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (46%), Environmental Science (34%), Chemistry (3%).

Physical Sciences: 485 works · 84.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 265 works · 46.1% of their workAtmospheric Science: 265 works · 46.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 195 works · 33.9% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 92 works · 16.0% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 72 works · 12.6% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 30 works · 5.3% of their workChemistry: 17 works · 2.9% of their workSpectroscopy: 17 works · 2.9% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 1.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 9 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 89 works · 15.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJoel A. Thornton574works
Physical Sciences84%

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 Sciences26546.1%
    2. Environmental Science19533.9%
    3. Chemistry172.9%
    4. Engineering91.6%
  2. Everything else8915.5%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science46% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change16% of their works
  3. 3Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis13% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Spectroscopy3% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joel A. Thornton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Air Quality, Atmospheric Aerosols, Black Carbon, Ozone Depletion, Stratospheric Water Vapor, Particulate Matter, Satellite Observations and Air Pollution.

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. Air Quality4682 topics
  2. Atmospheric Aerosols3901 topic
  3. Black Carbon3901 topic
  4. Ozone Depletion2181 topic
  5. Stratospheric Water Vapor2181 topic
  6. Particulate Matter2092 topics
  7. Satellite Observations1782 topics
  8. Air Pollution1431 topic
  9. Health Effects1431 topic
  10. Remote Sensing1052 topics
  11. Emissions1001 topic
  12. Methane1001 topic
  13. Aerosols781 topic
  14. Climate781 topic
  15. Air Quality Monitoring661 topic
  16. Low-Cost Sensors661 topic
  17. Climate Change271 topic
  18. Forest Fires271 topic
  19. Spectroscopic Databases221 topic
  20. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers221 topic

Where does Joel A. Thornton work?

Joel A. Thornton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Washington, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joel A. Thornton have?

OpenAlex counts 574 works and 33,327 citations for Joel A. Thornton, an h-index of 103, ranking #10,689 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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