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M. J. Penston

M. J. Penston publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Oceanography, on topics such as Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

World rank
#1,466,957
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#86,207
of 90,785
Works
17
Citations
12
Citations per work
0.7

What does M. J. Penston research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 39.1%Computational Mechanics: 13.0%Oceanography: 13.0%Instrumentation: 4.3%other fields: 30.6%39%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics39.1%Computational Mechanics13.0%Oceanography13.0%Instrumentation4.3%other fields30.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics39% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography13% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation4% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. J. Penston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: GRACE, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Sea Level Rise, Exoplanets, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Remote Sensing and Stellar Astrophysics.

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. GRACE31 topic
  2. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  3. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  4. Sea Level Rise31 topic
  5. Exoplanets21 topic
  6. Gamma-Ray Bursts21 topic
  7. Remote Sensing22 topics
  8. Stellar Astrophysics21 topic
  9. Supernovae21 topic
  10. Geometric Processing11 topic
  11. Ozone Depletion11 topic
  12. Photogrammetry11 topic
  13. Satellite Imagery11 topic
  14. Spectroscopic Databases11 topic
  15. Stratospheric Water Vapor11 topic
  16. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers11 topic
  17. UAV11 topic

Where does M. J. Penston work?

M. J. Penston's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory in Greenwich, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does M. J. Penston have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 12 citations for M. J. Penston, ranking #1,466,957 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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