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G. D. Westfall

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
104
Citations
37663
World Ranking
1445
National Ranking
758

G. D. Westfall publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where G. D. Westfall sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 453 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

G. D. Westfall D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where G. D. Westfall sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his original and ground breaking contributions to both nuclear structure and heavy ion collision physics, and for his exceptional training of graduate students and contributions to undergraduate education

Overview

G. D. Westfall is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Engineering and Social Sciences, with specific focus on subfields such as Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Transportation, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their work primarily addresses topics in Traffic and Road Safety, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Transportation Systems and Logistics.

Westfall's recent publication includes: Analysis of motorcyclists crash severity using cluster correspondence and hierarchical binary logit models, published in 2025 in the journal Multimodal Transportation.

  • Richard Dzinyela
  • Bahar Dadashova
  • Subasish Das
  • Chiara Silvestri-Dobrovolny
  • Emmanuel Kofi Adanu

  • Multimodal Transportation

In 1999, Westfall was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation acknowledging their contributions to nuclear structure, heavy ion collision physics, and their roles in graduate student training and undergraduate education.

Best Publications

  • Systematic measurements of identified particle spectra in pp, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions at the star detector.

    B. I. Abelev;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;B. D. Anderson

  • Disappearance of back-to-back high-pT Hadron correlations in central Au + Au collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV

    C. Adler;Z. Ahammed;C. Allgower;J. Amonett

  • Transverse momentum and collision energy dependence of high p(T) hadron suppression in Au+Au collisions at ultrarelativistic energies

    J. Adams;C. Adler;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

  • Evidence from d + Au measurements for final state suppression of high p(T) hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

    J. Adams;C. Adler;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

  • Elliptic flow in Au + Au collisions at √SNN = 130 GeV

    K. H. Ackermann;N. Adams;C. Adler;Z. Ahammed

  • Azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200GeV

    J. Adams;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;J. Amonett

  • Centrality dependence of high-pt hadron suppression in Au + Au collisions at √SNN = 130 GeV

    C. Adler;Z. Ahammed;C. Allgower;J. Amonett

  • Particle-type dependence of azimuthal anisotropy and nuclear modification of particle production in Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV

    J. Adams;C. Adler;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

  • Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of high-pT nonphotonic electron suppression in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200GeV

    B. I. Abelev;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;B. D. Anderson

  • Distributions of charged hadrons associated with high transverse momentum particles in pp and Au plus Au collisions at root(S)(NN)=200 GeV

    J. Adams;C. Adler;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

  • Strange particle production in p+p collisions at s=200 GeV

    B. I. Abelev;J. Adams;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

  • Centrality Dependence of High-pTHadron Suppression inAu+AuCollisions atsNN=130GeV

    C. Adler;Z. Ahammed;C. Allgower;J. Amonett

  • Elliptic flow from two- and four-particle correlations in Au+Au collisions at (s NN )=130 GeV

    C. Adler;Z. Ahammed;C. Allgower;J. Amonett

  • Identified particle distributions in pp and Au+Au collisions at square root of (sNN)=200 GeV

    Adams J;Adler C;Aggarwal Mm;Ahammed Z

  • Higher moments of net proton multiplicity distributions at RHIC.

    M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;A. V. Alakhverdyants;I. Alekseev

  • Observation of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations and possible local strong parity violation in heavy-ion collisions

    B. I. Abelev;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;A. V. Alakhverdyants

  • Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from √SNN = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions

    B. I. Abelev;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;B. D. Anderson

  • Identified Particle Distributions inppandAu+AuCollisions atsNN=200GeV

    J. Adams;C. Adler;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed

  • Identified hadron spectra at large transverse momentum in p+p and d+Au collisions at,root(NN)-N-S=200 GeV

    J. Adams;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;J. Amonett

  • Identified baryon and meson distributions at large transverse momenta from Au plus Au collisions at root(S)(NN)=200 GeV

    B. I. Abelev;M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;B. D. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Keane
D. Keane Kent State University
H. H. Wieman
H. H. Wieman Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H. S. Matis
H. S. Matis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
J. Sandweiss
J. Sandweiss Yale University
H. M. Spinka
H. M. Spinka Argonne National Laboratory
H. G. Ritter
H. G. Ritter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nu Xu
Nu Xu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zubayer Ahammed
Zubayer Ahammed Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
G.J. Igo
G.J. Igo University of California, Los Angeles
M. A. Lisa
M. A. Lisa The Ohio State University

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