2026 Marina Galand: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	44	4799	4422	525	491	216	6127

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (IOP)

Overview

Marina Galand is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with a total of 46 publications in these areas.

The scientist's subfields of study include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Their work covers topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, Planetary, and Galactic Studies, Astro and Planetary Science, Spacecraft Design and Technology, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, and Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Sensing.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Marina Galand include:

Metis: the Solar Orbiter visible light and ultraviolet coronal imager (2020), published in Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
Optical design of the multi-wavelength imaging coronagraph Metis for the solar orbiter mission (2020), published in Experimental Astronomy
Global helium abundance measurements in the solar corona (2020), published in Nature Astronomy
Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
AIRS: ARIEL IR spectrometer status (2022), published in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marina Galand include E. Pace, Paul Eccleston, Vladimiro Noce, E. Pascale, and R. Ottensamer.

The scientist has published predominantly in the following venues:

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Experimental Astronomy
Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
Nature Astronomy

Marina Galand was awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2018.

Best Publications

A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

Giovanna Tinetti;Pierre Drossart;Paul Eccleston;Paul Hartogh

434
Citations
Negative ion chemistry in Titan's upper atmosphere

Veronique Vuitton;Veronique Vuitton;Panayotis Lavvas;R.V. Yelle;M. Galand

320
Citations
Aerosol growth in Titan’s ionosphere

Panayotis Lavvas;Roger V. Yelle;Tommi Koskinen;Axel Bazin

192
Citations
Energy deposition and primary chemical products in Titan’s upper atmosphere

P Lavvas;M Galand;R Yelle;Alan Heays

159
Citations
EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory

G. Tinetti;J. P. Beaulieu;T. Henning;M. Meyer

148
Citations
Introduction to special section: Proton precipitation into the atmosphere

Marina Galand

125
Citations
On the ionospheric structure of Titan

K. Ågren;K. Ågren;J.-E. Wahlund;P. Garnier;Ronan Modolo

122
Citations
Energy Deposition in Planetary Atmospheres by Charged Particles and Solar Photons

Jane L. Fox;Marina I. Galand;Robert E. Johnson

120
Citations
Ionospheric electrical conductances produced by auroral proton precipitation

Marina Galand;Arthur D. Richmond

114
Citations
TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission

Athena Coustenis;Sushil K. Atreya;T. Balint;R.H. Brown

112
Citations
Ionospheric plasma of comet 67P probed by Rosetta at 3 au from the Sun

M. Galand;K. L. Héritier;E. Odelstad;P. Henri

109
Citations
Cross Sections and Reaction Rates for Comparative Planetary Aeronomy

David L. Huestis;Stephen W. Bougher;Jane L. Fox;Marina Galand

108
Citations
Auroral Processes at the Giant Planets: Energy Deposition, Emission Mechanisms, Morphology and Spectra

Sarah V. Badman;Sarah V. Badman;Graziella Branduardi-Raymont;Marina Galand;Sébastien L. G. Hess

101
Citations
On the amount of heavy molecular ions in Titan's ionosphere

J.-E. Wahlund;M. Galand;I. Müller-Wodarg;J. Cui

101
Citations
The Ionosphere of Titan: Ideal Diurnal and Nocturnal Cases

Marina Galand;Jean Lilensten;Dominique Toublanc;Sylvestre Maurice

97
Citations
Spectral morphology of the X-ray emission from Jupiter's aurorae

G. Branduardi-Raymont;Ronald F. Elsner;M. Galand;Denis Grodent

89
Citations
On magnetospheric electron impact ionisation and dynamics in Titan's ram-side and polar ionosphere – a Cassini case study

K. Agren;J.-E. Wahlund;Ronan Modolo;D. Lummerzheim

88
Citations
PREDICTIONS OF ION PRODUCTION RATES AND ION NUMBER DENSITIES WITHIN THE DIAMAGNETIC CAVITY OF COMET 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO AT PERIHELION

E. Vigren;M. Galand

86
Citations
Diurnal variations of Titan's ionosphere

J. Cui;M. Galand;R. V. Yelle;V. Vuitton

86
Citations
RPC observation of the development and evolution of plasma interaction boundaries at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

K. E. Mandt;K. E. Mandt;A. Eriksson;N. J. T. Edberg;C. Koenders

84
Citations
Response of the upper atmosphere to auroral protons

M. Galand;T. J. Fuller-Rowell;M. V. Codrescu

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger V. Yelle University of Arizona

Michael Mendillo Boston University

Andrew J. Coates University College London

Hans Nilsson Swedish Institute of Space Physics

James L. Burch Southwest Research Institute

Dirk Lummerzheim University of Alaska Fairbanks

Thomas E. Cravens University of Kansas

Martin Volwerk Austrian Academy of Sciences

Darrell F. Strobel Johns Hopkins University

Tamas I. Gombosi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Personal website of Marina Galand

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