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Researcher · Met Office · United Kingdom

Richard J. Cotton

Richard J. Cotton publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes, on topics such as Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

ORCID 0000-0003-2504-802X OpenAlex
World rank
#333,494
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#29,674
of 367,258
Works
130
Citations
6k
Citations per work
46.0
h-index
37
i10-index 57Top 9.7% in Atmospheric Science
Richard J. Cotton

What does Richard J. Cotton research?

Richard J. Cotton's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (38%), Environmental Science (27%), Computer Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 95 works · 73.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 49 works · 38.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 44 works · 33.6% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 works · 4.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 35 works · 27.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 31 works · 24.0% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 works · 3.0% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 4.1% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 5 works · 4.1% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 4.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 5 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 35 works · 26.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard J. Cotton130works
Physical Sciences73%

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 Sciences4938.0%
    2. Environmental Science3527.0%
    3. Computer Science54.1%
    4. Engineering54.1%
  2. Everything else3526.8%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science34% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change24% of their works
  3. 3Earth-Surface Processes4% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard J. Cotton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Air Quality, Remote Sensing, Aerosols, Climate, Atmospheric Aerosols, Black Carbon, Data Assimilation and Ensemble Kalman Filter.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Air Quality982 topics
  2. Remote Sensing592 topics
  3. Aerosols541 topic
  4. Climate541 topic
  5. Atmospheric Aerosols441 topic
  6. Black Carbon441 topic
  7. Data Assimilation191 topic
  8. Ensemble Kalman Filter191 topic
  9. Climate Change172 topics
  10. Ozone Depletion151 topic
  11. Stratospheric Water Vapor151 topic
  12. Aeolian Processes121 topic
  13. Wind Erosion121 topic
  14. Icing Mitigation71 topic
  15. Wind Turbines71 topic
  16. R language61 topic
  17. Statistical Analysis61 topic
  18. Glacier51 topic
  19. Water Availability51 topic

Where does Richard J. Cotton work?

Richard J. Cotton's main affiliation in the publication record is Met Office, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Richard J. Cotton have?

OpenAlex counts 130 works and 5,983 citations for Richard J. Cotton, an h-index of 37, ranking #333,494 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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