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Researcher · South African Radio Astronomy Observatory · South Africa

J. W. Menzies

J. W. Menzies publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

ORCID 0000-0003-4255-0767 OpenAlex
World rank
#479,159
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,405
of 5,570
Works
57
Citations
179
Citations per work
3.1

What does J. W. Menzies research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 55.9%Instrumentation: 26.5%Computational Mechanics: 8.8%Spectroscopy: 1.5%other fields: 7.3%56%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics55.9%Instrumentation26.5%Computational Mechanics8.8%Spectroscopy1.5%other fields7.3%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation26% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  4. 4Spectroscopy2% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology2% of their works
  6. 6Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. W. Menzies's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets221 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics221 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation181 topic
  4. Spectrograph181 topic
  5. Star Formation82 topics
  6. Accretion Disks72 topics
  7. Magnetic Fields72 topics
  8. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  9. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  10. Black Holes52 topics
  11. Molecular Clouds51 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks51 topic
  13. Solar System Abundances51 topic
  14. Terrestrial Planets51 topic
  15. Cosmology31 topic
  16. Galaxies31 topic
  17. Event Horizon Telescope21 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy21 topic
  19. Geomagnetic Field11 topic
  20. Magnetosome Formation11 topic

Where does J. W. Menzies work?

J. W. Menzies's main affiliation in the publication record is South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does J. W. Menzies have?

Science Explorer counts 57 works and 179 citations for J. W. Menzies, ranking #479,159 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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