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Researcher · McMaster University · Canada

James W. Wadsley

James W. Wadsley publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-8745-0263 OpenAlex
World rank
#18,366
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#382
of 183,316
Works
266
Citations
20k
Citations per work
73.6
h-index
76
i10-index 150Top 1.9% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
James W. Wadsley

What does James W. Wadsley research?

James W. Wadsley's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (86%), Engineering (4%), Environmental Science (1%).

Physical Sciences: 242 works · 91.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 230 works · 86.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 182 works · 68.4% of their workInstrumentation: 31 works · 11.6% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 10 works · 3.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 7 works · 2.6% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 3.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 10 works · 3.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 1.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 1.0% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 8.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJames W. Wadsley266works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Astronomy23086.3%
    2. Engineering103.8%
    3. Environmental Science31.0%
  2. Everything else248.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics68% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James W. Wadsley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds and Protoplanetary Disks.

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. Star Formation2782 topics
  2. Black Holes1962 topics
  3. Cosmology1611 topic
  4. Galaxies1611 topic
  5. Accretion Disks1522 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields1522 topics
  7. Molecular Clouds1171 topic
  8. Protoplanetary Disks1171 topic
  9. Exoplanets981 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics981 topic
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation891 topic
  12. Spectrograph891 topic
  13. Supernovae612 topics
  14. Cosmological Parameters381 topic
  15. Dark Energy381 topic
  16. Event Horizon Telescope351 topic
  17. X-Ray Astronomy351 topic
  18. Gamma-Ray Bursts231 topic
  19. Neutron Stars231 topic
  20. Solar System Abundances211 topic
  21. Terrestrial Planets211 topic

Where does James W. Wadsley work?

James W. Wadsley's main affiliation in the publication record is McMaster University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does James W. Wadsley have?

OpenAlex counts 266 works and 19,574 citations for James W. Wadsley, an h-index of 76, ranking #18,366 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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