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Researcher · University of California, Los Angeles · United States

Ian S. McLean

Ian S. McLean publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-8830-6500 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,775
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,766
of 358,040
Works
139
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
12.4

What does Ian S. McLean research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 33.1%Instrumentation: 8.4%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5.6%Sociology and Political Science: 5.1%other fields: 47.8%33%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics33.1%Instrumentation8.4%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5.6%Sociology and Political Science5.1%other fields47.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics33% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation8% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  6. 6Visual Arts and Performing Arts5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian S. McLean's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Molecular Clouds, Protoplanetary Disks, Spectrograph and Optical 3D Laser Measurement.

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. Star Formation232 topics
  2. Exoplanets181 topic
  3. Stellar Astrophysics181 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation151 topic
  5. Molecular Clouds151 topic
  6. Protoplanetary Disks151 topic
  7. Spectrograph151 topic
  8. Optical 3D Laser Measurement91 topic
  9. Position-Sensitive Detector91 topic
  10. Cosmology81 topic
  11. Galaxies81 topic
  12. Adaptive Optics71 topic
  13. Solar System Abundances71 topic
  14. Terrestrial Planets71 topic
  15. Wavefront Sensing71 topic
  16. Australian history61 topic
  17. British imperialism61 topic

Where does Ian S. McLean work?

Ian S. McLean's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Los Angeles, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ian S. McLean have?

Science Explorer counts 139 works and 1,717 citations for Ian S. McLean, ranking #3,775 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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