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J. A. Ball

J. A. Ball publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life.

World rank
#346,969
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#126,724
of 358,040
Works
23
Citations
78
Citations per work
3.4

What does J. A. Ball research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 32.0%Computational Mechanics: 16.0%Instrumentation: 8.0%Aerospace Engineering: 8.0%other fields: 36.0%32%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics32.0%Computational Mechanics16.0%Instrumentation8.0%Aerospace Engineering8.0%other fields36.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics32% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics16% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation8% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. A. Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Astrobiology, Astronomical Instrumentation, Epoch of Reionization, Extraterrestrial Life, Molecular Clouds and Radio Astronomy.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  2. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  3. Astrobiology21 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation21 topic
  5. Epoch of Reionization21 topic
  6. Extraterrestrial Life21 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  8. Radio Astronomy21 topic
  9. Spectrograph21 topic
  10. Star Formation21 topic
  11. Earth Systems Science11 topic
  12. Gaia Hypothesis11 topic
  13. Neural Processing11 topic
  14. Ozone Depletion11 topic
  15. Stratospheric Water Vapor11 topic
  16. Visual Perception11 topic

Where does J. A. Ball work?

J. A. Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard College Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does J. A. Ball have?

Science Explorer counts 23 works and 78 citations for J. A. Ball, ranking #346,969 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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