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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 Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing.

ORCID 0000-0002-1237-5008 OpenAlex
World rank
#21,798
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,990
of 1,627,098
Works
776
Citations
61k
Citations per work
78.6
h-index
117
i10-index 434Top 0.1% in Oceanography
James C. McWilliams

What does James C. McWilliams research?

James C. McWilliams's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (61%), Environmental Science (14%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 650 works · 83.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 473 works · 60.9% of their workOceanography: 298 works · 38.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 141 works · 18.2% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 33 works · 4.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 109 works · 14.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 109 works · 14.1% of their workEngineering: 40 works · 5.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 40 works · 5.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 28 works · 3.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 28 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 126 works · 16.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJames C.McWilliams776works
Physical Sciences84%

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 Sciences47360.9%
    2. Environmental Science10914.1%
    3. Engineering405.2%
    4. Physics and Astronomy283.6%
  2. Everything else12616.2%
  1. 1Oceanography38% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science18% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change14% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes4% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James C. McWilliams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ocean Circulation, Data Assimilation, Climate Change, Global Warming, Oceanic Modeling, Tidal Analysis, Tropical Cyclones and Climate Modeling.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Ocean Circulation6752 topics
  2. Data Assimilation5802 topics
  3. Climate Change5494 topics
  4. Global Warming4883 topics
  5. Oceanic Modeling4461 topic
  6. Tidal Analysis4461 topic
  7. Tropical Cyclones3142 topics
  8. Climate Modeling2291 topic
  9. Extreme Events2291 topic
  10. Ocean Waves1611 topic
  11. Wind Stress1611 topic
  12. Hurricanes1531 topic
  13. Storm Surge1531 topic
  14. Convective Parameterization1341 topic
  15. Ensemble Kalman Filter1341 topic
  16. Dissolved Organic Matter1061 topic
  17. Eutrophication1061 topic
  18. Turbulent Flows791 topic
  19. Vortex Dynamics791 topic
  20. Glacial Cycles611 topic
  21. Paleoclimatology611 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 776 works and 60,965 citations for James C. McWilliams, an h-index of 117, ranking #21,798 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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