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John Westfall

John Westfall publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, History and Philosophy of Science and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Historical Astronomy and Related Studies and History of Science and Natural History.

World rank
#1,189,478
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#294,159
of 358,040
Works
17
Citations
1
Citations per work
0.1

What does John Westfall research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 65.2%History and Philosophy of Science: 13.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 4.3%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 4.3%other fields: 13.2%65%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics65.2%History and Philosophy of Science13.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics4.3%Developmental and Educational Psychology4.3%other fields13.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics65% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science13% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology4% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works
  6. 6Archeology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Westfall's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Global History, Science Circulation, Astrobiology and Charles Bonnet Syndrome.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy71 topic
  2. Transits of Venus71 topic
  3. Antikythera Mechanism31 topic
  4. Astronomical Calculator31 topic
  5. Global History21 topic
  6. Science Circulation21 topic
  7. Astrobiology11 topic
  8. Charles Bonnet Syndrome11 topic
  9. Coronal Mass Ejections11 topic
  10. Exoplanets11 topic
  11. Extraterrestrial Life11 topic
  12. Solar Dynamics Observatory11 topic
  13. Solar System Abundances11 topic
  14. Stellar Astrophysics11 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets11 topic
  16. Visual Hallucinations11 topic

Where does John Westfall work?

John Westfall's main affiliation in the publication record is Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Westfall have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 1 citations for John Westfall, ranking #1,189,478 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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