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Researcher · University of Arizona · United States

Christopher N. A. Willmer

Christopher N. A. Willmer publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-9262-9997 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,798
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,645
of 1,627,098
Works
430
Citations
25k
Citations per work
57.5
h-index
80
i10-index 229Top 1.6% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Christopher N. A. Willmer

What does Christopher N. A. Willmer research?

Christopher N. A. Willmer's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (88%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 399 works · 92.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 379 works · 88.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 251 works · 58.3% of their workInstrumentation: 101 works · 23.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 15 works · 3.4% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 13 works · 3.0% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 4.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 12 works · 2.7% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 9 works · 2.0% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 7.2% of their workTHEIR WORKChristopher N. A.Willmer430works
Physical Sciences93%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy37988.1%
    2. Engineering204.7%
  2. Everything else317.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christopher N. A. Willmer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation3782 topics
  2. Black Holes3542 topics
  3. Cosmology3071 topic
  4. Galaxies3071 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation2831 topic
  6. Spectrograph2831 topic
  7. Exoplanets1571 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics1571 topic
  9. Accretion Disks1182 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields1182 topics
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts851 topic
  12. Supernovae851 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds711 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks711 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope471 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy471 topic
  17. Adaptive Optics381 topic
  18. Wavefront Sensing381 topic
  19. Optical 3D Laser Measurement321 topic
  20. Position-Sensitive Detector321 topic

Where does Christopher N. A. Willmer work?

Christopher N. A. Willmer's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Arizona, United States.

How many publications and citations does Christopher N. A. Willmer have?

OpenAlex counts 430 works and 24,715 citations for Christopher N. A. Willmer, an h-index of 80, ranking #4,798 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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