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Researcher · Southwest Research Institute · United States

K. D. Retherford

K. D. Retherford publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration and Space Exploration and Technology.

ORCID 0000-0001-9470-150X OpenAlex
World rank
#831,644
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#234,670
of 358,040
Works
124
Citations
171
Citations per work
1.4

What does K. D. Retherford research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 62.0%Aerospace Engineering: 11.8%Atmospheric Science: 6.4%Biomedical Engineering: 2.1%other fields: 17.7%62%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics62.0%Aerospace Engineering11.8%Atmospheric Science6.4%Biomedical Engineering2.1%other fields17.7%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering2% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. D. Retherford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Mars, Martian Surface, Solar Wind, Extravehicular Activity, Space Suit and Coronal Mass Ejections.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar System Abundances461 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets461 topic
  3. Mars341 topic
  4. Martian Surface341 topic
  5. Solar Wind192 topics
  6. Extravehicular Activity131 topic
  7. Space Suit131 topic
  8. Coronal Mass Ejections121 topic
  9. Solar Dynamics Observatory121 topic
  10. Ozone Depletion111 topic
  11. Stratospheric Water Vapor111 topic
  12. Exoplanets71 topic
  13. Ionosphere71 topic
  14. Magnetosphere71 topic
  15. Stellar Astrophysics71 topic
  16. Cryogenic Storage51 topic
  17. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)51 topic

Where does K. D. Retherford work?

K. D. Retherford's main affiliation in the publication record is Southwest Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does K. D. Retherford have?

Science Explorer counts 124 works and 171 citations for K. D. Retherford, ranking #831,644 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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