D. J. McComas

49.4k citations

765 papers · 28.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 81

Impact in

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.01%
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Planetary Science and Exploration
Geophysics top 0.5%
- Earthquake Detection and Analysis

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 705
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics 605
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics 481
- Astro and Planetary Science 381
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 88
- Planetary Science and Exploration 50
Atmospheric Science 69
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 64

Co-authors: N. A. Schwadron S. J. Bame G. Livadiotis J. T. Gosling M. F. Thomsen J. L. Phillips R. M. Skoug H. O. Funsten
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (146 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (125 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (121 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (35 papers)Space Science Reviews (31 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Poland

In The Last Decade

D. J. McComas

726 papers receiving 25.5k citations

Hit Papers

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The Solar Probe Plus Mission: Humanity’s First Visit to Our Star 2015 · 773 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Space Science Reviews
2013 Space Science Reviews
1998 Space Science Reviews
1991 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

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Citations

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Co-authorship network

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All Works

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1	Species-dependent Variability in the Energy Spectra of Intense Solar Energetic Particle Events Observed by PSP/ISʘIS/EPI-Hi/LET The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·J Wilker Jonathan, Cansever Bektaş, 野村宏行, Leng Ying Khoo, Zigong Xu, A. J. Davis, R. A. Leske, C. M. S. Cohen, D. J. McComas, ヴァリッカットゥカロットゥケサヴァデヴ, J. G. Mitchell, A. W. Labrador, J. S. Rankin, Daniel Breazeale, J. R. Szalay, A. C. Cummings, Frank Carber, M. E. Wiedenbeck	2025	0
2	Delay of Near-relativistic Electrons with Respect to Type III Radio Bursts throughout the Inner Heliosphere The Astrophysical Journal ·J. G. Mitchell, E. R. Christian, G. A. de Nolfo, C. M. S. Cohen, M. E. Hill, Athanasios Kouloumvakos, A. W. Labrador, R. A. Leske, D. J. McComas, R. L. McNutt, D. G. Mitchell, M. M. Shen, N. A. Schwadron, M. E. Wiedenbeck, S. D. Bale, M. Pulupa	2025	3
3	The theory of thermodynamic relativity Scientific Reports ·G. Livadiotis, D. J. McComas	2024	3
4	Europa Modifies Jupiter's Plasma Sheet Geophysical Research Letters ·J. R. Szalay, Joachim Saur, D. J. McComas, F. Allegrini, F. Bagenal, S. J. Bolton, R. W. Ebert, Jannie Pietersen, G. Livadiotis, A. R. Poppe, P. W. Valek, R. J. Wilson, E. J. Zirnstein	2024	5
5	Observation of Turbulent Magnetohydrodynamic Cascade in the Jovian Magnetosheath The Astrophysical Journal ·N. Andrés, R. Bandyopadhyay, D. J. McComas, J. R. Szalay, F. Allegrini, R. W. Ebert, D. J. Gershman, J. E. P. Connerney, S. J. Bolton	2023	1
6	Transport Equation of Kappa Distributions in the Heliosphere The Astrophysical Journal ·G. Livadiotis, D. J. McComas	2023	19
7	Tracking the Rapid Opening and Closing of Polar Coronal Holes through IBEX ENA Observations The Astrophysical Journal ·ヴァリッカットゥカロットゥケサヴァデヴ, E. J. Zirnstein, D. J. McComas	2023	2
8	A Living Catalog of Parker Solar Probe IS⊙IS Energetic Particle Enhancements The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·J. G. Mitchell, C. M. S. Cohen, Hanchul Kim, C. J. Joyce, J. S. Rankin, M. M. Shen, G. A. de Nolfo, E. R. Christian, D. J. McComas, R. L. McNutt, M. E. Wiedenbeck, N. A. Schwadron, M. E. Hill, A. W. Labrador, R. A. Leske, R. A. Mewaldt, D. G. Mitchell, J. R. Szalay	2023	7
9	Suprathermal H⁺ Pickup Ion Tails in the Outer Heliosphere The Astrophysical Journal ·ヴァリッカットゥカロットゥケサヴァデヴ, E. J. Zirnstein, D. J. McComas, P. C. Brandt, S. A. Stern, H. A. Elliott, A. R. Poppe, K. N. Singer, A. Verbiscer	2023	5
10	The Sun’s Alfvén Surface: Recent Insights and Prospects for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) Solar Physics ·Steven R. Cranmer, Rohit Chhiber, Nicolas N Rieser, Iver H. Cairns, R. C. Colaninno, D. J. McComas, N. E. Raouafi, A. V. Usmanov, S. E. Gibson, C. E. DeForest	2023	10
11	Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection at Ganymede's Upstream Magnetopause During the PJ34 Juno Flyby Geophysical Research Letters ·R. W. Ebert, S. A. Fuselier, F. Allegrini, F. Bagenal, S. J. Bolton, G. Clark, J. E. P. Connerney, G. A. DiBraccio, W. S. Kŭrth, S. Levin, D. J. McComas, 方俊华, Norberto Romanelli, A. H. Sulaiman, J. R. Szalay, P. W. Valek, R. J. Wilson	2022	14
12	Electron Partial Density and Temperature Over Jupiter's Main Auroral Emission Using Juno Observations Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics ·F. Allegrini, W. S. Kŭrth, S. S. Elliott, Joachim Saur, G. Livadiotis, Georgios Nicolaou, F. Bagenal, S. J. Bolton, G. Clark, J. E. P. Connerney, R. W. Ebert, G. R. Gladstone, P. Louarn, B. H. Mauk, D. J. McComas, A. H. Sulaiman, J. R. Szalay, P. W. Valek, R. J. Wilson	2021	18
13	Energetic Neutral Atom Fluxes from the Heliosheath: Constraints from in situ Measurements and Models The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·S. A. Fuselier, André Galli, J. D. Richardson, D. B. Reisenfeld, E. J. Zirnstein, J. Heerikhuisen, M. A. Dayeh, N. A. Schwadron, D. J. McComas, H. A. Elliott, R. G. Gomez, Rouihi Rouihi, 大西伸樹, M. Opher, K. Dialynas	2021	12
14	Diverse Electron and Ion Acceleration Characteristics Observed Over Jupiter's Main Aurora Geophysical Research Letters ·B. H. Mauk, D. K. Haggerty, C. Paranicas, G. Clark, P. Kollmann, A. M. Rymer, J. Peachey, S. J. Bolton, S. Levin, A. Adriani, F. Allegrini, F. Bagenal, Bertrand Bonfond, J. E. P. Connerney, R. W. Ebert, G. R. Gladstone, W. S. Kŭrth, D. J. McComas, D. A. Ranquist, P. W. Valek	2018	56
15	The puzzling detection of x-rays from Pluto by Chandra Icarus ·C. M. Lisse, R. L. McNutt, S. J. Wolk, F. Bagenal, S. A. Stern, G. R. Gladstone, T. E. Cravens, M. E. Hill, P. Kollmann, H. A. Weaver, D. F. Strobel, H. A. Elliott, D. J. McComas, Richard P. Binzel, Bradford Snios, Anil Bhardwaj, A. Chutjian, L. A. Young, C. B. Olkin, 思慧馬	2016	12
16	Assessment of detectability of neutral interstellar deuterium by IBEX observations Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·M. A. Kubiak, M. Bzowski, J. M. Sokół, E. Möbius, حسین, P. Wurz, D. J. McComas	2013	12
17	Direct Evidence for Prolonged Magnetic Reconnection at a Continuous X-Line Within the Heliospheric Current Sheet AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts ·J. T. Gosling, S. Eriksson, T. D. Phan, D. E. Larson, R. M. Skoug, D. J. McComas	2007	1
18	Substorm ion injections: Geosynchronous observations and test particle orbits in three‐dimensional dynamic MHD fields Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·J. Birn, M. F. Thomsen, J. E. Borovsky, G. D. Reeves, D. J. McComas, 赵双任, M. Hesse, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1997	136
19	ISEE 3 observations of solar wind thermal electrons with T _⊥ > T _∥ Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·J. L. Phillips, J. T. Gosling, D. J. McComas, S. J. Bame, E. J. Smith	1989	8
20	Electron velocity distributions near the Earth's bow shock Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·W. C. Feldman, R. C. Anderson, S. J. Bame, S. Peter Gary, J. T. Gosling, D. J. McComas, M. F. Thomsen, G. Paschmann, M. M. Hoppe	1983	375

About D. J. McComas

D. J. McComas is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Molecular Biology and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, having authored 765 papers that have together received 28.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (605 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (481 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (381 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (167 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (88 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (64 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (50 papers) and Earthquake Detection and Analysis (33 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (26.6k citations), Geophysics (2.5k citations), Atmospheric Science (2.2k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.5k citations) and Molecular Biology (7.1k citations). D. J. McComas has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Poland. Frequent co-authors include N. A. Schwadron, S. J. Bame, G. Livadiotis, J. T. Gosling, M. F. Thomsen, J. L. Phillips, R. M. Skoug, H. O. Funsten, J. T. Gosling and W. C. Feldman. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series and Space Science Reviews.

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