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David Ball

David Ball publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Information Systems, on topics such as Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources.

World rank
#121,414
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#52,115
of 358,040
Works
25
Citations
271
Citations per work
10.8

What does David Ball research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 46.9%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 15.6%Information Systems: 9.4%Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 6.3%other fields: 21.8%47%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics46.9%Nuclear and High Energy Physics15.6%Information Systems9.4%Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6.3%other fields21.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics47% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics16% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems9% of their works
  4. 4Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6% of their works
  5. 5Library and Information Sciences6% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accretion Disks, Black Holes, Event Horizon Telescope, X-Ray Astronomy, High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration, Binary Black Hole and Digital Textbooks.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Accretion Disks72 topics
  2. Black Holes72 topics
  3. Event Horizon Telescope61 topic
  4. X-Ray Astronomy61 topic
  5. High-Energy Astrophysics51 topic
  6. Particle Acceleration51 topic
  7. Binary Black Hole31 topic
  8. Digital Textbooks31 topic
  9. E-Books31 topic
  10. Epoch of Reionization31 topic
  11. Gravitational Waves31 topic
  12. Radio Astronomy31 topic
  13. Star Formation22 topics
  14. Cosmology11 topic
  15. Free-Electron Lasers11 topic
  16. Galaxies11 topic
  17. Molecular Clouds11 topic
  18. Protoplanetary Disks11 topic
  19. X-Ray11 topic

Where does David Ball work?

David Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Ball have?

Science Explorer counts 25 works and 271 citations for David Ball, ranking #121,414 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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