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Researcher · General Atomics (United States) · United States

W.P. West

W.P. West publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Magnetic confinement fusion research, Fusion materials and technologies and Superconducting Materials and Applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#73,426
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#32,929
of 358,040
Works
69
Citations
430
Citations per work
6.2

What does W.P. West research?

Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 30.9%Materials Chemistry: 23.5%Biomedical Engineering: 11.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7.4%other fields: 27.1%31%top field
Nuclear and High Energy Physics30.9%Materials Chemistry23.5%Biomedical Engineering11.1%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7.4%other fields27.1%

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

  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics31% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry24% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Radiation6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W.P. West's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tokamak, Turbulence, fusion materials, radiation damage, Nb3Sn Conductor, Superconducting Magnets, Neutron Imaging and Small-Angle Scattering.

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. Tokamak231 topic
  2. Turbulence231 topic
  3. fusion materials181 topic
  4. radiation damage181 topic
  5. Nb3Sn Conductor91 topic
  6. Superconducting Magnets91 topic
  7. Neutron Imaging51 topic
  8. Small-Angle Scattering51 topic
  9. Ionosphere41 topic
  10. Magnetosphere41 topic
  11. Molten Salt41 topic
  12. Nuclear Reactor41 topic
  13. Material Analysis31 topic
  14. Spectroscopy31 topic
  15. Plasma Etching21 topic
  16. Semiconductor Industry21 topic

Where does W.P. West work?

W.P. West's main affiliation in the publication record is General Atomics (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does W.P. West have?

Science Explorer counts 69 works and 430 citations for W.P. West, ranking #73,426 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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