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Researcher · Pennsylvania State University · United States

Joel Leja

Joel Leja publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6755-1315 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,920
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,679
of 1,627,098
Works
327
Citations
12k
Citations per work
37.2
h-index
59
i10-index 142Top 3.9% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Joel Leja

What does Joel Leja research?

Joel Leja's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (88%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 297 works · 90.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 289 works · 88.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 188 works · 57.6% of their workInstrumentation: 81 works · 24.8% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 8 works · 2.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7 works · 2.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 works · 1.6% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 2.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 8 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 30 works · 9.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJoel Leja327works
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 Astronomy28988.5%
    2. Engineering82.3%
  2. Everything else309.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation25% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joel Leja's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Spectrograph, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation2622 topics
  2. Black Holes2582 topics
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation2151 topic
  4. Cosmology2151 topic
  5. Galaxies2151 topic
  6. Spectrograph2151 topic
  7. Exoplanets971 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics971 topic
  9. Accretion Disks902 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields902 topics
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts811 topic
  12. Supernovae811 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds471 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks471 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope431 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy431 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement191 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector191 topic
  19. High-Energy Astrophysics171 topic
  20. Particle Acceleration171 topic

Where does Joel Leja work?

Joel Leja's main affiliation in the publication record is Pennsylvania State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joel Leja have?

OpenAlex counts 327 works and 12,154 citations for Joel Leja, an h-index of 59, ranking #4,920 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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