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Researcher · University of Maryland, College Park · United States

D. A. Boyd

D. A. Boyd publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Magnetic confinement fusion research, Plasma Diagnostics and Applications and Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics.

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World rank
#2,288,301
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#683,094
of 1,627,098
Works
118
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
13.8
h-index
21
i10-index 48Top 39% in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
D. A. Boyd

What does D. A. Boyd research?

D. A. Boyd's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (54%), Engineering (32%).

Physical Sciences: 102 works · 86.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 64 works · 54.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 35 works · 29.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 15 works · 12.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 15 works · 12.3% of their workEngineering: 38 works · 31.8% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 20 works · 17.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 12 works · 10.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 5 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 13.9% of their workTHEIR WORKD. A. Boyd118works
Physical Sciences86%

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 Astronomy6454.3%
    2. Engineering3831.8%
  2. Everything else1613.9%
  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics29% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics13% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics12% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering10% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe D. A. Boyd's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tokamak, Turbulence, Plasma Etching, Semiconductor Industry, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Negative Ion Sources and Superconducting Cavities.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Tokamak811 topic
  2. Turbulence811 topic
  3. Plasma Etching411 topic
  4. Semiconductor Industry411 topic
  5. Ionosphere351 topic
  6. Magnetosphere351 topic
  7. Negative Ion Sources331 topic
  8. Superconducting Cavities331 topic
  9. Electron Beams141 topic
  10. Laser-Plasma Accelerators141 topic
  11. Material Analysis131 topic
  12. Spectroscopy131 topic
  13. Dusty Plasmas111 topic
  14. Quantum Plasma Physics111 topic
  15. fusion materials101 topic
  16. radiation damage101 topic

Where does D. A. Boyd work?

D. A. Boyd's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Maryland, College Park, United States.

How many publications and citations does D. A. Boyd have?

OpenAlex counts 118 works and 1,627 citations for D. A. Boyd, an h-index of 21, ranking #2,288,301 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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