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Researcher · General Atomics (United States) · United States

Fred W. McClain

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

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,630,675
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,539,659
of 1,627,098
Works
15
Citations
98
Citations per work
6.5
h-index
5
i10-index 5Top 87% in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Fred W. McClain

What does Fred W. McClain research?

Fred W. McClain's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (52%), Engineering (20%), Computer Science (11%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 90.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 works · 52.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 works · 25.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 works · 22.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 works · 4.5% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 20.5% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 20.5% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 11.4% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 works · 11.4% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 6.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 6.8% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 9.1% of their workTHEIR WORKFred W. McClain15works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Astronomy852.2%
    2. Engineering320.5%
    3. Computer Science211.4%
    4. Materials Science16.8%
  2. Everything else19.1%
  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics25% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics23% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering20% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications11% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry7% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fred W. McClain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar Wind, Tokamak, Turbulence, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Plasma Etching, Semiconductor Industry and Coronal Mass Ejections.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar Wind102 topics
  2. Tokamak101 topic
  3. Turbulence101 topic
  4. Ionosphere71 topic
  5. Magnetosphere71 topic
  6. Plasma Etching51 topic
  7. Semiconductor Industry51 topic
  8. Coronal Mass Ejections31 topic
  9. Distributed Storage31 topic
  10. Network Coding31 topic
  11. Solar Dynamics Observatory31 topic
  12. fusion materials31 topic
  13. radiation damage31 topic
  14. Distributed Systems21 topic
  15. Grid Computing21 topic
  16. Geomagnetic Field11 topic
  17. Magnetosome Formation11 topic

Where does Fred W. McClain work?

Fred W. McClain's main affiliation in the publication record is General Atomics (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Fred W. McClain have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 98 citations for Fred W. McClain, an h-index of 5, ranking #6,630,675 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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