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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Political Science and International Relations and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies, Historical Philosophy and Science and Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability.

World rank
#5,455
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#468
of 90,785
Works
108
Citations
669
Citations per work
6.2

What does James Clerk Maxwell research?

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8.9%Political Science and International Relations: 5.0%History and Philosophy of Science: 5.0%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 5.0%other fields: 76.1%9%top field
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8.9%Political Science and International Relations5.0%History and Philosophy of Science5.0%Astronomy and Astrophysics5.0%other fields76.1%

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

  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics9% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics5% of their works
  5. 5Applied Mathematics4% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James Clerk Maxwell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Experimental Tools, Smartphones, Energy Efficiency, Natural Philosophy, Scientific Culture, Corrosion, Steel and Antikythera Mechanism.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Experimental Tools71 topic
  2. Smartphones71 topic
  3. Energy Efficiency42 topics
  4. Natural Philosophy41 topic
  5. Scientific Culture41 topic
  6. Corrosion31 topic
  7. Steel31 topic
  8. Antikythera Mechanism21 topic
  9. Astronomical Calculator21 topic
  10. Control Systems21 topic
  11. Electric Drives21 topic
  12. Fluctuation Theorems21 topic
  13. Geometry21 topic
  14. Hyperbolic21 topic
  15. Industrial Engineering21 topic
  16. Stochastic Thermodynamics21 topic
  17. Technology Development21 topic

Where does James Clerk Maxwell work?

James Clerk Maxwell's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does James Clerk Maxwell have?

Science Explorer counts 108 works and 669 citations for James Clerk Maxwell, ranking #5,455 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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