M. Lester

13.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
466 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

M. Lester is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Lester has authored 466 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 400 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 149 papers in Molecular Biology and 120 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in M. Lester's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (357 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (232 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (149 papers). M. Lester is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (357 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (232 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (149 papers). M. Lester collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. M. Lester's co-authors include S. E. Milan, T. K. Yeoman, S. W. H. Cowley, J. Moen, J. A. Davies, H. J. Singer, R. A. Greenwald, K. Oksavik, M. P. Freeman and J. M. Ruohoniemi and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

M. Lester

442 papers receiving 9.5k 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 decade of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN): scientific achievements, new techniques and future directions

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. Lester United Kingdom	51	8.7k	3.4k	2.9k	2.1k	694	466	10.1k
S. Kokubun Japan	55	9.2k 1.1×	5.6k 1.7×	2.3k 0.8×	254 0.1×	350 0.5×	460	13.2k
D. D. Rowlands United States	35	3.0k 0.3×	717 0.2×	395 0.1×	1.2k 0.6×	878 1.3×	173	5.1k
Roger W. Smith United States	29	2.1k 0.2×	641 0.2×	418 0.1×	304 0.1×	738 1.1×	114	2.8k
Eric G. Blackman United States	41	3.8k 0.4×	893 0.3×	310 0.1×	81 0.0×	228 0.3×	208	5.2k
P. Stubbe Germany	41	4.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	2.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	229 0.3×	192	5.7k
J. D. MacDougall Canada	68	416 0.0×	992 0.3×	3.4k 1.2×	68 0.0×	966 1.4×	202	14.9k
D. L. Newman United States	41	3.0k 0.3×	592 0.2×	688 0.2×	107 0.0×	178 0.3×	228	5.0k
Chien‐Hung Lin Taiwan	40	4.2k 0.5×	971 0.3×	3.2k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	602 0.9×	220	5.9k
H. Nilsson Sweden	39	4.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	486 0.2×	206 0.1×	270 0.4×	298	6.0k
S. Ortolani Italy	51	7.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.3×	119 0.0×	324 0.2×	159 0.2×	355	11.1k

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Walach, Maria‐Theresia, John Coxon, A. Grocott, et al.. (2025). Reliability of Matching AMPERE Field‐Aligned Current Boundaries With SuperDARN Lower Latitude Ionospheric Convection Boundaries During Geomagnetic Storms. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 130(1).

Sánchez‐Cano, Beatriz, M. Lester, C. M. Fowler, et al.. (2025). The Ionopause at Mars and Its Correlation With Magnetic Topology and Plasma Pressure. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 130(7).

Steinbrügge, Gregor, Immanuel Christopher Jebaraj, Elena Donini, et al.. (2024). Observation of solar radio burst events from Mars orbit with the Shallow Radar instrument. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 683. A56–A56. 1 indexed citations

Kozlovsky, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Statistics of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances at High Latitudes Using a Rapid‐Run Ionosonde. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 129(4). 5 indexed citations

Stober, Gunter, Alan Z. Liu, Alexander Kozlovsky, et al.. (2023). Identifying gravity waves launched by the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha′apai volcanic eruption in mesosphere/lower-thermosphere winds derived from CONDOR and the Nordic Meteor Radar Cluster. Annales Geophysicae. 41(1). 197–208. 11 indexed citations

Carter, Jennifer, S. E. Milan, C. Forsyth, et al.. (2023). Mean Energy Flux, Associated Derived Height‐Integrated Conductances, and Field‐Aligned Current Magnitudes Evolve Differently During a Substorm. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 128(2). 3 indexed citations

Pokhotelov, Dimitry, Gunter Stober, Ingrid Mann, et al.. (2023). Inferring neutral winds in the ionospheric transition region from atmospheric-gravity-wave traveling-ionospheric-disturbance (AGW-TID) observations with the EISCAT VHF radar and the Nordic Meteor Radar Cluster. Annales Geophysicae. 41(2). 409–428. 7 indexed citations

Withers, Paul, M. Mendillo, M. F. Vogt, et al.. (2022). Observations of High Densities at Low Altitudes in the Nightside Ionosphere of Mars by the MAVEN Radio Occultation Science Experiment (ROSE). Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 127(11). 8 indexed citations

Kozlovsky, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Improved method of estimating temperatures at meteor peak heights. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(6). 4157–4169. 4 indexed citations

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Kozlovsky, Alexander, Renata Lukianova, & M. Lester. (2020). Occurrence and Altitude of the Long‐Lived Nonspecular Meteor Trails During Meteor Showers at High Latitudes. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 125(8). 7 indexed citations

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Lanchester, B. S., B. Gustavsson, Daniel Whiter, et al.. (2020). Horizontal electric fields from flow of auroral O ⁺ ( ² P) ions at sub-second temporal resolution. Annales Geophysicae. 38(4). 845–859. 7 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐Cano, Beatriz, M. Lester, Olivier Witasse, et al.. (2019). Mars' Ionospheric Interaction With Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring's Coma at Their Closest Approach as Seen by Mars Express. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 125(1). 4 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐Cano, Beatriz, Pierre‐Louis Blelly, M. Lester, et al.. (2019). Origin of the Extended Mars Radar Blackout of September 2017. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 124(6). 4556–4568. 28 indexed citations

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Wild, J. A., et al.. (2019). Spatially Resolved Neutral Wind Response Times During High Geomagnetic Activity Above Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 124(8). 6950–6960. 11 indexed citations

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Kozlovsky, Alexander & M. Lester. (2015). On the VHF radar echoes in the region of midnight aurora: Signs of ground echoes modulated by the ionosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 120(3). 2099–2109. 8 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐Cano, Beatriz, D. D. Morgan, Olivier Witasse, et al.. (2015). Total electron content in the Martian atmosphere: A critical assessment of the Mars Express MARSIS data sets. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 120(3). 2166–2182. 32 indexed citations

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Odzimek, Anna, M. Lester, & Marek Kubicki. (2012). EGATEC: A new high-resolution engineering model of the global atmospheric electric circuit - Currents in the lower atmosphere. Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester).

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Woodfield, E. E., M. Lockwood, T. K. Yeoman, & M. Lester. (2009). High and variable spectral width in the pre-dawn sector: A case study involving CUTLASS, EISCAT, ESR and optical data. Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester).

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Lester, M., O. de La Beaujardière, J. C. Foster, et al.. (1993). The response of the large scale ionospheric convection pattern to changes in the IMF and substorms - Results from the SUNDIAL 1987 campaign. Annales Geophysicae. 11(7). 556–571. 58 indexed citations

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Szuszczewicz, E. P., P. J. Wilkinson, E. C. Roelof, et al.. (1990). Solar-terrestrial conditions during SUNDIAL-86 and empirical modelling of the global-scale ionospheric response.. Biblioteca Digital da Memória Científica do INPE (National Institute for Space Research). 8. 387–398. 6 indexed citations

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