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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, Biomedical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Magnetic confinement fusion research, Superconducting Materials and Applications and Fusion materials and technologies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,108,395
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#281,612
of 358,040
Works
53
Citations
55
Citations per work
1.0

What does W. P. West research?

Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 24.3%Biomedical Engineering: 12.2%Aerospace Engineering: 12.2%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 9.5%other fields: 41.8%24%top field
Nuclear and High Energy Physics24.3%Biomedical Engineering12.2%Aerospace Engineering12.2%Electrical and Electronic Engineering9.5%other fields41.8%

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 Physics24% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering10% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics10% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry8% of their works

Research topics

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

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tokamak, Turbulence, Nb3Sn Conductor, Superconducting Magnets, fusion materials, radiation damage, Solar Wind and Negative Ion Sources.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Tokamak161 topic
  2. Turbulence161 topic
  3. Nb3Sn Conductor81 topic
  4. Superconducting Magnets81 topic
  5. Solar Wind62 topics
  6. fusion materials61 topic
  7. radiation damage61 topic
  8. Negative Ion Sources51 topic
  9. Plasma Etching51 topic
  10. Semiconductor Industry51 topic
  11. Superconducting Cavities51 topic
  12. Ionosphere41 topic
  13. Magnetosphere41 topic
  14. Molten Salt31 topic
  15. Nuclear Reactor31 topic
  16. Coronal Mass Ejections21 topic
  17. Solar Dynamics Observatory21 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 53 works and 55 citations for W. P. West, ranking #1,108,395 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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