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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics · Germany

John T. Whelan

John T. Whelan publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

ORCID 0000-0001-5710-6576 OpenAlex
World rank
#711
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#25
of 364,343
Works
400
Citations
99k
Citations per work
246.6
h-index
115
i10-index 277Top 0.2% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
John T. Whelan

What does John T. Whelan research?

John T. Whelan's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (73%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (13%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 355 works · 88.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 291 works · 72.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 256 works · 64.0% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 19 works · 4.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 16 works · 4.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 54 works · 13.4% of their workOceanography: 37 works · 9.2% of their workGeophysics: 17 works · 4.2% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 2.6% of their workOcean Engineering: 10 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 11.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn T. Whelan400works
Physical Sciences89%

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 Astronomy29172.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5413.4%
    3. Engineering102.6%
  2. Everything else4511.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics64% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography9% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John T. Whelan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Neutron Stars, GRACE and Sea Level Rise.

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. Gravitational Waves4752 topics
  2. Binary Black Hole3301 topic
  3. Neutron Star3301 topic
  4. Supernovae2242 topics
  5. Gamma-Ray Bursts1451 topic
  6. Neutron Stars1451 topic
  7. GRACE1001 topic
  8. Sea Level Rise1001 topic
  9. Black Holes891 topic
  10. X-Ray Astronomy891 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters791 topic
  12. Dark Energy791 topic
  13. High-Energy Astrophysics331 topic
  14. Particle Acceleration331 topic
  15. Epoch of Reionization301 topic
  16. Radio Astronomy301 topic
  17. Ring Laser Gyroscope291 topic
  18. Rotational Seismology291 topic

Where does John T. Whelan work?

John T. Whelan's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does John T. Whelan have?

OpenAlex counts 400 works and 98,625 citations for John T. Whelan, an h-index of 115, ranking #711 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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