D. Thornton

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 692 citations indexed

About

D. Thornton is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Thornton has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 692 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2 papers in Oceanography and 1 paper in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in D. Thornton's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (3 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (2 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (1 paper). D. Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (3 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (2 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (1 paper). D. Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. D. Thornton's co-authors include M. J. Keith, L. Levin, D. J. Champion, Cherry Ng, S. Johnston, W. van Straten, M. Burgay, Andrea Possenti, M. Krämer and N. D. R. Bhat and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Earth system science data.

In The Last Decade

D. Thornton

5 papers receiving 651 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances

2013 577 citations D. Thornton, B. W. Stappers et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Thornton United Kingdom	4	615	146	44	42	36	5	692
J. S. Wang China	12	419 0.7×	153 1.0×	23 0.5×	19 0.5×	33 0.9×	36	560
Phil Perillat United States	10	303 0.5×	58 0.4×	90 2.0×	23 0.5×	46 1.3×	34	365
С. В. Чернов Russia	11	276 0.4×	78 0.5×	34 0.8×	13 0.3×	39 1.1×	56	381
J. A. de Freitas Pacheco France	19	923 1.5×	302 2.1×	26 0.6×	18 0.4×	41 1.1×	122	1.0k
P. Norqvist Sweden	15	767 1.2×	125 0.9×	56 1.3×	14 0.3×	206 5.7×	27	818
J. G. Ries United States	4	371 0.6×	60 0.4×	60 1.4×	12 0.3×	20 0.6×	10	492
J. P. Zahn France	16	919 1.5×	24 0.2×	53 1.2×	23 0.5×	41 1.1×	29	973
Glenn Jones United States	10	580 0.9×	151 1.0×	77 1.8×	36 0.9×	166 4.6×	29	647
Jiang Yu China	17	803 1.3×	53 0.4×	56 1.3×	36 0.9×	275 7.6×	72	850
Rachel Tunnicliffe United Kingdom	8	704 1.1×	191 1.3×	36 0.8×	60 1.4×	32 0.9×	11	776

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Thornton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of D. Thornton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of D. Thornton based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with D. Thornton. D. Thornton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Rubino, Mauro, David Etheridge, D. Thornton, et al.. (2019). Revised records of atmospheric trace gases CO ₂ , CH ₄ , N ₂ O, and δ ¹³ C-CO ₂ over the last 2000 years from Law Dome, Antarctica. Earth system science data. 11(2). 473–492. 59 indexed citations

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Levin, L., M. Bailes, Benjamin R. Barsdell, et al.. (2013). The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey –VIII. The Galactic millisecond pulsar population. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 434(2). 1387–1397. 43 indexed citations

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Thornton, D., B. W. Stappers, M. Bailes, et al.. (2013). A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances. Science. 341(6141). 53–56. 577 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tiburzi, C., S. Johnston, M. Bailes, et al.. (2013). The High Time Resolution Universe survey – IX. Polarimetry of long-period pulsars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 436(4). 3557–3572. 11 indexed citations

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Thornton, D.. (1963). Platinum Oxidation Catalysts in the Control of Air Pollution. Platinum Metals Review. 7(3). 82–87. 2 indexed citations

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