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Researcher · Southwest Research Institute · United States

Matthew J. West

Matthew J. West publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-0631-2393 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,214,200
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#389,039
of 1,627,098
Works
178
Citations
7.4k
Citations per work
41.7
h-index
31
i10-index 52Top 16% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Matthew J. West

What does Matthew J. West research?

Matthew J. West's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (56%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%).

Physical Sciences: 126 works · 70.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 100 works · 55.9% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 100 works · 55.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 works · 5.9% of their workOceanography: 11 works · 5.9% of their workChemistry: 6 works · 3.2% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 6 works · 3.2% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 3.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 5 works · 3.0% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 2.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 5 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 25.9% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 3.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 3.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 6 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMatthew J. West178works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences71%

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. Physics and Astronomy10055.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences115.9%
    3. Chemistry63.2%
    4. Engineering53.0%
    5. Computer Science52.7%
  2. Everything else4625.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology63.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography6% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology3% of their works
  4. 4Organic Chemistry3% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Matthew J. West's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar Wind, Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and GRACE.

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 Wind1392 topics
  2. Coronal Mass Ejections981 topic
  3. Solar Dynamics Observatory981 topic
  4. Ionosphere411 topic
  5. Magnetosphere411 topic
  6. Exoplanets301 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics301 topic
  8. GRACE261 topic
  9. Sea Level Rise261 topic
  10. Binary Black Hole231 topic
  11. Gravitational Waves231 topic
  12. Solar System Abundances201 topic
  13. Terrestrial Planets201 topic
  14. Forecasting121 topic
  15. Solar Radiation121 topic
  16. Geomagnetic Field111 topic
  17. Magnetosome Formation111 topic

Where does Matthew J. West work?

Matthew J. West's main affiliation in the publication record is Southwest Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Matthew J. West have?

OpenAlex counts 178 works and 7,416 citations for Matthew J. West, an h-index of 31, ranking #1,214,200 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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