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Researcher · University of Colorado Boulder · United States

Erica June Nelson

Erica June Nelson 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 0000-0002-7524-374X OpenAlex
World rank
#3,873
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,336
of 1,627,098
Works
319
Citations
17k
Citations per work
54.3
h-index
72
i10-index 174Top 2.2% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Erica June Nelson

What does Erica June Nelson research?

Erica June Nelson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (91%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 297 works · 93.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 291 works · 91.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 188 works · 58.8% of their workInstrumentation: 80 works · 25.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10 works · 3.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 7 works · 2.3% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6 works · 1.8% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 2.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 2.0% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 6.9% of their workTHEIR WORKErica June Nelson319works
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 Astronomy29191.1%
    2. Engineering62.0%
  2. Everything else226.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics59% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation25% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Erica June Nelson'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 Formation3192 topics
  2. Black Holes2812 topics
  3. Cosmology2501 topic
  4. Galaxies2501 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation2281 topic
  6. Spectrograph2281 topic
  7. Exoplanets1051 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics1051 topic
  9. Accretion Disks1002 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields1002 topics
  11. Molecular Clouds691 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks691 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts601 topic
  14. Supernovae601 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope311 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy311 topic
  17. Adaptive Optics261 topic
  18. Wavefront Sensing261 topic
  19. Optical 3D Laser Measurement171 topic
  20. Position-Sensitive Detector171 topic

Where does Erica June Nelson work?

Erica June Nelson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Colorado Boulder, United States.

How many publications and citations does Erica June Nelson have?

OpenAlex counts 319 works and 17,336 citations for Erica June Nelson, an h-index of 72, ranking #3,873 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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