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Researcher · United States Geological Survey · United States

Rick L. Wessels

Rick L. Wessels publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Cryospheric studies and observations, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and Climate change and permafrost.

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World rank
#1,224,016
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#391,846
of 1,627,098
Works
92
Citations
2k
Citations per work
21.9
h-index
23
i10-index 29Top 24% in Atmospheric Science
Rick L. Wessels

What does Rick L. Wessels research?

Rick L. Wessels's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (59%), Environmental Science (9%), Computer Science (8%).

Physical Sciences: 71 works · 76.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 55 works · 59.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 29 works · 31.5% of their workGeophysics: 21 works · 22.8% of their workGeology: 5 works · 5.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 9.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 works · 4.6% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 works · 4.6% of their workComputer Science: 8 works · 8.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 8 works · 8.3% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 23.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRick L. Wessels92works
Physical Sciences77%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences5559.3%
    2. Environmental Science89.2%
    3. Computer Science88.3%
  2. Everything else2123.2%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science32% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics23% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  4. 4Geology5% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change5% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rick L. Wessels's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Glacier, Water Availability, Geochronology, Zircon and Arctic.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change503 topics
  2. Remote Sensing503 topics
  3. Hydrology402 topics
  4. Glacier251 topic
  5. Water Availability251 topic
  6. Geochronology221 topic
  7. Zircon221 topic
  8. Arctic151 topic
  9. Permafrost151 topic
  10. Machine Learning141 topic
  11. Mineral Prospectivity141 topic
  12. Earthquakes131 topic
  13. Ionospheric Anomalies131 topic
  14. Seismic Electromagnetics131 topic
  15. Subduction131 topic
  16. Hazard111 topic
  17. Landslide111 topic
  18. Glacial Cycles101 topic
  19. Paleoclimatology101 topic

Where does Rick L. Wessels work?

Rick L. Wessels's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Geological Survey, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rick L. Wessels have?

OpenAlex counts 92 works and 2,013 citations for Rick L. Wessels, an h-index of 23, ranking #1,224,016 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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