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Researcher · Jet Propulsion Laboratory · United States

Mark Thomson

Mark Thomson publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Structural Analysis and Optimization, Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies and Spacecraft Design and Technology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#380,331
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#136,045
of 358,040
Works
22
Citations
133
Citations per work
6.0

What does Mark Thomson research?

Aerospace Engineering: 38.1%Civil and Structural Engineering: 19.0%Mechanical Engineering: 11.9%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 11.9%other fields: 19.1%38%top field
Aerospace Engineering38.1%Civil and Structural Engineering19.0%Mechanical Engineering11.9%Astronomy and Astrophysics11.9%other fields19.1%

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

  1. 1Aerospace Engineering38% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering19% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics12% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark Thomson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Form-Finding, Tensegrity, Frequency Selective Surfaces, Metasurfaces, Adaptive Optics, Astronomical Instrumentation, CubeSat and On-Orbit Servicing.

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. Form-Finding61 topic
  2. Tensegrity61 topic
  3. Frequency Selective Surfaces41 topic
  4. Metasurfaces41 topic
  5. Adaptive Optics31 topic
  6. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  7. CubeSat31 topic
  8. On-Orbit Servicing31 topic
  9. Space Debris31 topic
  10. Spectrograph31 topic
  11. Wavefront Sensing31 topic
  12. small satellite31 topic
  13. Antenna21 topic
  14. Microstrip21 topic
  15. Modular Robots21 topic
  16. Self-Reconfiguration21 topic

Where does Mark Thomson work?

Mark Thomson's main affiliation in the publication record is Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Mark Thomson have?

Science Explorer counts 22 works and 133 citations for Mark Thomson, ranking #380,331 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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