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Researcher · University of California, Los Angeles · United States

James C. McWilliams

James C. McWilliams publishes mostly in Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-1237-5008 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,036,209
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#337,128
of 1,627,098
Works
74
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
32.8
h-index
18
i10-index 20Top 32% in Oceanography
James C. McWilliams

What does James C. McWilliams research?

James C. McWilliams's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (40%), Physics and Astronomy (11%), Engineering (10%).

Physical Sciences: 51 works · 68.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 29 works · 39.8% of their workOceanography: 20 works · 26.5% of their workAtmospheric Science: 10 works · 13.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 works · 11.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 works · 11.2% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 10.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 8 works · 10.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 7.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 26.5% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 4.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 4.6% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 4.6% of their workTHEIR WORKJames C.McWilliams74works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences69%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences2939.8%
    2. Physics and Astronomy811.2%
    3. Engineering810.2%
    4. Environmental Science67.7%
  2. Everything else2026.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology34.6%
  1. 1Oceanography26% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science13% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics11% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James C. McWilliams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Data Assimilation, Ocean Circulation, Oceanic Modeling, Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Global Warming, Turbulent Flows and Vortex Dynamics.

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. Data Assimilation362 topics
  2. Ocean Circulation261 topic
  3. Oceanic Modeling261 topic
  4. Climate Change243 topics
  5. Sea Level Rise172 topics
  6. Global Warming162 topics
  7. Turbulent Flows141 topic
  8. Vortex Dynamics141 topic
  9. Coronal Mass Ejections131 topic
  10. Solar Dynamics Observatory131 topic
  11. Convective Parameterization101 topic
  12. Ensemble Kalman Filter101 topic
  13. Geomagnetic Field91 topic
  14. Hurricanes91 topic
  15. Magnetosome Formation91 topic
  16. Tropical Cyclones91 topic
  17. GRACE81 topic
  18. groundwater depletion81 topic
  19. Dissolved Organic Matter71 topic
  20. Eutrophication71 topic

Where does James C. McWilliams work?

James C. McWilliams's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Los Angeles, United States.

How many publications and citations does James C. McWilliams have?

OpenAlex counts 74 works and 2,424 citations for James C. McWilliams, an h-index of 18, ranking #1,036,209 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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