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Researcher · The Aerospace Corporation · United States

Thomas Paul O'Brien

Thomas Paul O'Brien publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Geophysics, on topics such as Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-1606-3386 OpenAlex
World rank
#535,951
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#185,631
of 1,627,098
Works
291
Citations
12k
Citations per work
39.8
h-index
42
i10-index 94Top 9% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Thomas Paul O'Brien

What does Thomas Paul O'Brien research?

Thomas Paul O'Brien's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (47%), Engineering (14%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 194 works · 66.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 136 works · 46.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 126 works · 43.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 10 works · 3.6% of their workEngineering: 40 works · 13.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 25 works · 8.5% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 16 works · 5.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17 works · 5.8% of their workGeophysics: 17 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 83 works · 28.6% of their workLife Sciences: 14 works · 4.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 4.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas PaulO'Brien291works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences66%

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 Astronomy13646.8%
    2. Engineering4013.9%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences175.8%
  2. Everything else8328.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology144.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics43% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics6% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology5% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Paul O'Brien's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar Wind, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Geomagnetic Field, Ionospheric Anomalies and Magnetosome Formation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar Wind2382 topics
  2. Ionosphere1331 topic
  3. Magnetosphere1331 topic
  4. Coronal Mass Ejections1051 topic
  5. Solar Dynamics Observatory1051 topic
  6. Geomagnetic Field371 topic
  7. Ionospheric Anomalies371 topic
  8. Magnetosome Formation371 topic
  9. Seismic Electromagnetics371 topic
  10. Solar System Abundances351 topic
  11. Terrestrial Planets351 topic
  12. CubeSat201 topic
  13. small satellite201 topic
  14. Space Policy161 topic
  15. Space Tourism161 topic
  16. Particle Therapy141 topic
  17. Proton Therapy141 topic

Where does Thomas Paul O'Brien work?

Thomas Paul O'Brien's main affiliation in the publication record is The Aerospace Corporation, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Paul O'Brien have?

OpenAlex counts 291 works and 11,579 citations for Thomas Paul O'Brien, an h-index of 42, ranking #535,951 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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