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Researcher · Southwest Research Institute · United States

W. J. Merline

W. J. Merline publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Geophysics, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-3713-4788 OpenAlex
World rank
#451,415
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#154,508
of 358,040
Works
54
Citations
127
Citations per work
2.4

What does W. J. Merline research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 64.3%Aerospace Engineering: 8.9%Geophysics: 5.4%Ecology: 3.6%other fields: 17.8%64%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics64.3%Aerospace Engineering8.9%Geophysics5.4%Ecology3.6%other fields17.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics64% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering9% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics5% of their works
  4. 4Ecology4% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology2% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. J. Merline's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Mars, Martian Surface, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Geochronology 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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar System Abundances161 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets161 topic
  3. Mars111 topic
  4. Martian Surface111 topic
  5. Exoplanets51 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics51 topic
  7. Geochronology21 topic
  8. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  9. Stable Isotopes21 topic
  10. Star Formation21 topic
  11. Trophic Position21 topic
  12. Zircon21 topic
  13. Distributed Systems11 topic
  14. Fault Tolerance11 topic
  15. Heuristic Search11 topic
  16. Planning Systems11 topic

Where does W. J. Merline work?

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

How many publications and citations does W. J. Merline have?

Science Explorer counts 54 works and 127 citations for W. J. Merline, ranking #451,415 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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