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Researcher · Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris · France

Henry Joy McCracken

Henry Joy McCracken publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

ORCID 0000-0002-9489-7765 OpenAlex
World rank
#10,397
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#2,274
of 324,115
Works
666
Citations
52k
Citations per work
78.8
h-index
118
i10-index 378Top 0.2% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Henry Joy McCracken

What does Henry Joy McCracken research?

Henry Joy McCracken's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (84%), Engineering (6%).

Physical Sciences: 600 works · 90.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 558 works · 83.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 352 works · 52.9% of their workInstrumentation: 170 works · 25.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 21 works · 3.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 15 works · 2.3% of their workEngineering: 42 works · 6.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 27 works · 4.0% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 15 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 66 works · 9.9% of their workTHEIR WORKHenry JoyMcCracken666works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy55883.8%
    2. Engineering426.3%
  2. Everything else669.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics53% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation26% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Henry Joy McCracken's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae.

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. Black Holes5452 topics
  2. Star Formation5452 topics
  3. Cosmology4941 topic
  4. Galaxies4941 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation4831 topic
  6. Spectrograph4831 topic
  7. Gamma-Ray Bursts1671 topic
  8. Supernovae1671 topic
  9. Exoplanets1631 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics1631 topic
  11. Accretion Disks1022 topics
  12. Magnetic Fields1022 topics
  13. Optical 3D Laser Measurement771 topic
  14. Position-Sensitive Detector771 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope511 topic
  16. Molecular Clouds511 topic
  17. Protoplanetary Disks511 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy511 topic
  19. High-Energy Astrophysics451 topic
  20. Particle Acceleration451 topic

Where does Henry Joy McCracken work?

Henry Joy McCracken's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France.

How many publications and citations does Henry Joy McCracken have?

OpenAlex counts 666 works and 52,460 citations for Henry Joy McCracken, an h-index of 118, ranking #10,397 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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