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Researcher · West Virginia University · United States

Joseph K. Swiggum

Joseph K. Swiggum publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology.

ORCID 0000-0002-1075-3837 OpenAlex
World rank
#24,224
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,981
of 1,627,098
Works
156
Citations
11k
Citations per work
67.6
h-index
45
i10-index 76Top 7.8% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Joseph K. Swiggum

What does Joseph K. Swiggum research?

Joseph K. Swiggum's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (77%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 146 works · 93.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 121 works · 77.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 103 works · 65.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8 works · 5.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 7 works · 4.6% of their workInstrumentation: 2 works · 1.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 21 works · 13.5% of their workOceanography: 21 works · 13.5% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 2.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 4 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJoseph K. Swiggum156works
Physical Sciences93%

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 Astronomy12177.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2113.5%
    3. Engineering42.5%
  2. Everything else106.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics66% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography14% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joseph K. Swiggum's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Supernovae, GRACE, Sea Level Rise, Epoch of Reionization and Radio Astronomy.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gravitational Waves1712 topics
  2. Binary Black Hole1381 topic
  3. Neutron Star1381 topic
  4. Supernovae602 topics
  5. GRACE591 topic
  6. Sea Level Rise591 topic
  7. Epoch of Reionization481 topic
  8. Radio Astronomy481 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts331 topic
  10. Neutron Stars331 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters271 topic
  12. Dark Energy271 topic
  13. Atomic Clocks191 topic
  14. Optical Clocks191 topic
  15. Black Holes131 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy131 topic
  17. High-Energy Astrophysics101 topic
  18. Particle Acceleration101 topic

Where does Joseph K. Swiggum work?

Joseph K. Swiggum's main affiliation in the publication record is West Virginia University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joseph K. Swiggum have?

OpenAlex counts 156 works and 10,545 citations for Joseph K. Swiggum, an h-index of 45, ranking #24,224 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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