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Michael J. West

Michael J. West publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

World rank
#159,096
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#66,366
of 358,040
Works
45
Citations
429
Citations per work
9.5

What does Michael J. West research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 48.7%Instrumentation: 23.7%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3.9%Computational Mechanics: 2.6%other fields: 21.1%49%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics48.7%Instrumentation23.7%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3.9%Computational Mechanics2.6%other fields21.1%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics49% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation24% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael J. West's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Cosmology, Galaxies and Molecular Clouds.

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. Astronomical Instrumentation181 topic
  2. Spectrograph181 topic
  3. Star Formation182 topics
  4. Exoplanets161 topic
  5. Stellar Astrophysics161 topic
  6. Cosmology151 topic
  7. Galaxies151 topic
  8. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  9. Protoplanetary Disks31 topic
  10. Optics21 topic
  11. Spectroscopy21 topic
  12. Absolute Configuration11 topic
  13. Chiroptical Spectroscopy11 topic
  14. Detection11 topic
  15. Electrochemical11 topic
  16. Ozone Depletion11 topic
  17. Stratospheric Water Vapor11 topic

Where does Michael J. West work?

Michael J. West's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Hawaii at Hilo, United States.

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

Science Explorer counts 45 works and 429 citations for Michael J. West, ranking #159,096 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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