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Researcher · Birkbeck, University of London · United Kingdom

Alan L. Mackay

Alan L. Mackay publishes mostly in Materials Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, on topics such as Origins and Evolution of Life, History and Theory of Mathematics and Philosophy and History of Science.

OpenAlex
World rank
#49,026
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,633
of 90,785
Works
55
Citations
364
Citations per work
6.6

What does Alan L. Mackay research?

Materials Chemistry: 9.9%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 8.5%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 5.6%Biomedical Engineering: 5.6%other fields: 70.4%10%top field
Materials Chemistry9.9%Astronomy and Astrophysics8.5%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5.6%Biomedical Engineering5.6%other fields70.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Materials Chemistry10% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics8% of their works
  3. 3Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan L. Mackay's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Prebiotic Chemistry, RNA World, Evolutionary Synthesis, Historical Sources, Mathematics Education, Mechanistic Explanation, Biomimetic Synthesis and Crystallography.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Prebiotic Chemistry41 topic
  2. RNA World41 topic
  3. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  4. Historical Sources31 topic
  5. Mathematics Education31 topic
  6. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  7. Biomimetic Synthesis21 topic
  8. Crystallography21 topic
  9. Finite Elements21 topic
  10. Mesoporous Materials21 topic
  11. NURBS21 topic
  12. Nanocomposite Materials21 topic
  13. Partially Ordered Sets21 topic
  14. Peptide-Directed Materials21 topic
  15. Periodic Table21 topic
  16. Powder Diffraction21 topic

Where does Alan L. Mackay work?

Alan L. Mackay's main affiliation in the publication record is Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alan L. Mackay have?

Science Explorer counts 55 works and 364 citations for Alan L. Mackay, ranking #49,026 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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