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Researcher · City University of New York · United States

Barry McKernan

Barry McKernan publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0002-9726-0508 OpenAlex
World rank
#144,675
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#60,958
of 358,040
Works
35
Citations
251
Citations per work
7.2

What does Barry McKernan research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 64.3%Instrumentation: 9.5%Computational Mechanics: 7.1%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 7.1%other fields: 12.0%64%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics64.3%Instrumentation9.5%Computational Mechanics7.1%Nuclear and High Energy Physics7.1%other fields12.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics64% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation10% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Barry McKernan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Accretion Disks, X-Ray Astronomy, Astronomical Instrumentation and Cosmology.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gravitational Waves102 topics
  2. Black Holes92 topics
  3. Binary Black Hole61 topic
  4. Neutron Star61 topic
  5. Accretion Disks51 topic
  6. X-Ray Astronomy51 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  8. Cosmology41 topic
  9. Galaxies41 topic
  10. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  11. Spectrograph41 topic
  12. Supernovae41 topic
  13. High-Energy Astrophysics31 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  15. Particle Acceleration31 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  17. Exoplanets21 topic
  18. Stellar Astrophysics21 topic

Where does Barry McKernan work?

Barry McKernan's main affiliation in the publication record is City University of New York, United States.

How many publications and citations does Barry McKernan have?

Science Explorer counts 35 works and 251 citations for Barry McKernan, ranking #144,675 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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