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Researcher · Institute of Astronomy · Russia

J. A. J. Whelan

J. A. J. Whelan publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,869,221
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Russia
#11,051
of 179,717
Works
83
Citations
972
Citations per work
11.7
h-index
17
i10-index 27Top 34% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
J. A. J. Whelan

What does J. A. J. Whelan research?

J. A. J. Whelan's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (57%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (5%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 56 works · 68.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 48 works · 57.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 33 works · 40.0% of their workInstrumentation: 6 works · 7.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 works · 5.8% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 3 works · 4.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 5.3% of their workGeophysics: 4 works · 5.3% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 5.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 4 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 32.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJ. A. J. Whelan83works
Physical Sciences68%

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 Astronomy4857.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences45.3%
    3. Engineering45.3%
  2. Everything else2732.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics40% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation8% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics5% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works

Research topics

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

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Black Holes, X-Ray Astronomy, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets301 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics301 topic
  3. Accretion Disks272 topics
  4. Magnetic Fields272 topics
  5. Black Holes181 topic
  6. X-Ray Astronomy181 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation171 topic
  8. Spectrograph171 topic
  9. Solar System Abundances151 topic
  10. Terrestrial Planets151 topic
  11. Optical 3D Laser Measurement121 topic
  12. Position-Sensitive Detector121 topic
  13. Crystal Structure Prediction111 topic
  14. Mantle Dynamics111 topic
  15. Molecular Clouds91 topic
  16. Star Formation91 topic
  17. Gamma-Ray Bursts51 topic
  18. Supernovae51 topic

Where does J. A. J. Whelan work?

J. A. J. Whelan's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute of Astronomy, Russia.

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

OpenAlex counts 83 works and 972 citations for J. A. J. Whelan, an h-index of 17, ranking #2,869,221 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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