H. O. Funsten

23.7k citations
279 papers · 9.4k · 1 hit paper · h-index 52

Impact in

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.1%
    • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
    • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
    • Astro and Planetary Science
    • Planetary Science and Exploration
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Geophysics top 1%
    • Earthquake Detection and Analysis

Papers in

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 221
    • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics 168
    • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics 162
    • Astro and Planetary Science 85
    • Planetary Science and Exploration 22
  • Geophysics 55
    • Earthquake Detection and Analysis 49
Co-authors
D. J. McComas (103 shared papers)N. A. Schwadron (72 shared papers)H. E. Spence (67 shared papers)Joseph E. Borovsky (5 shared papers)G. D. Reeves (65 shared papers)D. N. Baker (40 shared papers)J. B. Blake (37 shared papers)R. M. Skoug (41 shared papers)
Journals
Geophysical Research Letters (41 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (33 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (14 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (12 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (10 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesChinaPoland

In The Last Decade

H. O. Funsten

267 papers receiving 9.0k citations

H. O. Funsten's Hit Papers

Electron Acceleration in the Heart of the Van Allen Radiation Belts 2013 · 468 citations
4680+4+8Years since publication100200300400
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.
  1. 2013 Science

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H. O. Funsten
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  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 8.3k
  • Geophysics 2.0k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 862
  • Atmospheric Science 960
  • Radiation 342
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Electron Acceleration in the Heart of the Van Allen Radiation Belts
Science ·G. D. Reeves, H. E. Spence, M. G. Henderson, Steven K. Morley, R. H. Friedel, H. O. Funsten, D. N. Baker, S. G. Kanekal, J. B. Blake, J. F. Fennell, S. G. Claudepierre, R. M. Thorne, D. L. Turner, C. A. Kletzing, W. S. Kŭrth, B. Larsen, J. T. Niehof
Hit paper breakdown →		2013468
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Solar wind observations over Ulysses' first full polar orbit
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·D. J. McComas, B. L. Barraclough, H. O. Funsten, J. T. Gosling, E. Santiago-Muñoz, R. M. Skoug, B. E. Goldstein, M. Neugebauer, Pete Riley, A. Balogh
2000353
3
Global distribution of near‐surface hydrogen on Mars
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·W. C. Feldman, T. H. Prettyman, S. Maurice, J. J. Plaut, D. L. Bish, D. T. Vaniman, M. T. Mellon, A. E. Metzger, S. W. Squyres, S. Karunatillake, W. V. Boynton, R. C. Elphic, H. O. Funsten, D. J. Lawrence, R. L. Tokar
2004337
4
The Earth's plasma sheet as a laboratory for flow turbulence in high-β MHD
Journal of Plasma Physics ·Joseph E. Borovsky, R. C. Elphic, H. O. Funsten, M. F. Thomsen
1997234
5
PICK-UP IONS IN THE OUTER HELIOSHEATH: A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR THE INTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY EXplorer RIBBON
The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·J. Heerikhuisen, N. V. Pogorelov, G. P. Zank, G. Crew, P. C. Frisch, H. O. Funsten, P. H. Janzen, D. J. McComas, D. B. Reisenfeld, N. A. Schwadron
2009188
6
Ulysses' return to the slow solar wind
Geophysical Research Letters ·D. J. McComas, S. J. Bame, B. L. Barraclough, W. C. Feldman, H. O. Funsten, J. T. Gosling, Pete Riley, R. M. Skoug, A. Balogh, R. J. Forsyth, B. E. Goldstein, M. Neugebauer
1998186
7
Structures and Spectral Variations of the Outer Heliosphere in IBEX Energetic Neutral Atom Maps
Science ·H. O. Funsten, F. Allegrini, G. Crew, R. Demajistre, P. C. Frisch, S. A. Fuselier, M. Gruntman, P. H. Janzen, D. J. McComas, E. Möbius, B. M. Randol, D. B. Reisenfeld, E. C. Roelof, N. A. Schwadron
2009168
8
Energy‐dependent dynamics of keV to MeV electrons in the inner zone, outer zone, and slot regions
Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics ·G. D. Reeves, R. H. W. Friedel, B. Larsen, R. M. Skoug, H. O. Funsten, S. G. Claudepierre, J. F. Fennell, D. L. Turner, (unknown), H. E. Spence, J. B. Blake, D. N. Baker
2015160
9
Wave-driven butterfly distribution of Van Allen belt relativistic electrons
Nature Communications ·Fuliang Xiao, Chang Yang, Zhenpeng Su, Qinghua Zhou, Zhaoguo He, Yihua He, D. N. Baker, H. E. Spence, H. O. Funsten, J. B. Blake
2015159
10
LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MAGNETIC FIELD DETERMINED FROM THE INTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY EXPLORER RIBBON
The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·E. J. Zirnstein, J. Heerikhuisen, H. O. Funsten, G. Livadiotis, D. J. McComas, N. V. Pogorelov
2016147
11
Width and Variation of the ENA Flux Ribbon Observed by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer
Science ·S. A. Fuselier, F. Allegrini, H. O. Funsten, A. G. Ghielmetti, D. Heirtzler, H. Kucharek, O. W. Lennartsson, D. J. McComas, E. Möbius, T. E. Moore, S. M. Petrinec, L. Saul, J. Scheer, N. A. Schwadron, P. Wurz
2009144
12
MHD turbulence in the Earth's plasma sheet: Dynamics, dissipation, and driving
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Joseph E. Borovsky, H. O. Funsten
2003137
13
Excitation of poloidal standing Alfvén waves through drift resonance wave‐particle interaction
Geophysical Research Letters ·Lei Dai, Kazue Takahashi, J. R. Wygant, Liu Chen, J. W. Bonnell, C. A. Cattell, S. A. Thaller, C. A. Kletzing, C. W. Smith, R. J. MacDowall, D. N. Baker, J. B. Blake, J. F. Fennell, S. G. Claudepierre, H. O. Funsten, G. D. Reeves, H. E. Spence
2013129
14
Van Allen Probes observation of localized drift resonance between poloidal mode ultra‐low frequency waves and 60 keV electrons
Geophysical Research Letters ·S. G. Claudepierre, I. R. Mann, Kazue Takahashi, J. F. Fennell, M. K. Hudson, J. B. Blake, J. L. Roeder, J. H. Clemmons, H. E. Spence, G. D. Reeves, D. N. Baker, H. O. Funsten, R. H. W. Friedel, M. G. Henderson, C. A. Kletzing, W. S. Kŭrth, R. J. MacDowall, C. W. Smith, J. R. Wygant
2013122
15
Role of solar wind turbulence in the coupling of the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Joseph E. Borovsky, H. O. Funsten
2003120
16
Whistler anisotropy instabilities as the source of banded chorus: Van Allen Probes observations and particle‐in‐cell simulations
Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics ·Xiangrong Fu, Misa Cowee, R. H. Friedel, H. O. Funsten, S. Peter Gary, G. B. Hospodarsky, C. A. Kletzing, W. S. Kŭrth, B. Larsen, Kaijun Liu, E. MacDonald, Kyungguk Min, G. D. Reeves, R. M. Skoug, D. Winske
2014116
17
Chorus acceleration of radiation belt relativistic electrons during March 2013 geomagnetic storm
Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics ·Fuliang Xiao, Chang Yang, Zhaoguo He, Zhenpeng Su, Qinghua Zhou, Yihua He, C. A. Kletzing, W. S. Kŭrth, G. B. Hospodarsky, H. E. Spence, G. D. Reeves, H. O. Funsten, J. B. Blake, D. N. Baker, J. R. Wygant
2014112
18
Direct Observations of Interstellar H, He, and O by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer
Science ·E. Möbius, P. Bochsler, M. Bzowski, G. Crew, H. O. Funsten, S. A. Fuselier, A. G. Ghielmetti, D. Heirtzler, V. Izmodenov, M. A. Kubiak, H. Kucharek, M. A. Lee, T. Leonard, D. J. McComas, L. Petersen, L. Saul, J. Scheer, N. A. Schwadron, M. Witte, P. Wurz
2009106
19
FIRST SKY MAP OF THE INNER HELIOSHEATH TEMPERATURE USINGIBEXSPECTRA
The Astrophysical Journal ·G. Livadiotis, D. J. McComas, M. A. Dayeh, H. O. Funsten, N. A. Schwadron
2011106
20
CIRCULARITY OF THEINTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY EXPLORERRIBBON OF ENHANCED ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOM (ENA) FLUX
The Astrophysical Journal ·H. O. Funsten, R. Demajistre, P. C. Frisch, J. Heerikhuisen, Dave Higdon, P. H. Janzen, B. Larsen, G. Livadiotis, D. J. McComas, E. Möbius, C. Shane Reese, D. B. Reisenfeld, N. A. Schwadron, E. J. Zirnstein
2013105

About H. O. Funsten

H. O. Funsten is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, having authored 279 papers that have together received 9.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (168 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (162 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (85 papers), Earthquake Detection and Analysis (49 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (38 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (22 papers), Ion-surface interactions and analysis (22 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (8.3k citations), Geophysics (2.0k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (862 citations), Atmospheric Science (960 citations) and Radiation (342 citations). H. O. Funsten has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Poland. Frequent co-authors include D. J. McComas, N. A. Schwadron, H. E. Spence, Joseph E. Borovsky, G. D. Reeves, D. N. Baker, J. B. Blake, R. M. Skoug, M. A. Dayeh and S. A. Fuselier. Their work appears in journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, The Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Review of Scientific Instruments and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

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