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Researcher · Bishop's University · Canada

Lorne A. Nelson

Lorne A. Nelson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-6916-8130 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,884,356
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#62,690
of 183,316
Works
110
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
17.2
h-index
20
i10-index 32Top 29% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lorne A. Nelson

What does Lorne A. Nelson research?

Lorne A. Nelson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (81%), Engineering (4%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2%).

Physical Sciences: 95 works · 86.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 89 works · 80.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 70 works · 63.5% of their workInstrumentation: 14 works · 12.4% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 3 works · 2.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 2.0% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 3.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 4 works · 3.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 2.3% of their workOceanography: 3 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 13.4% of their workTHEIR WORKLorne A. Nelson110works
Physical Sciences87%

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 Astronomy8980.6%
    2. Engineering43.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences32.3%
  2. Everything else1513.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics64% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lorne A. Nelson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields and Binary Black Hole.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets591 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics591 topic
  3. Gravitational Waves482 topics
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation371 topic
  5. Spectrograph371 topic
  6. Accretion Disks332 topics
  7. Magnetic Fields332 topics
  8. Binary Black Hole281 topic
  9. Neutron Star281 topic
  10. Solar System Abundances251 topic
  11. Terrestrial Planets251 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts201 topic
  13. Supernovae201 topic
  14. Black Holes171 topic
  15. X-Ray Astronomy171 topic
  16. Molecular Clouds161 topic
  17. Star Formation161 topic
  18. Optical 3D Laser Measurement111 topic
  19. Position-Sensitive Detector111 topic

Where does Lorne A. Nelson work?

Lorne A. Nelson's main affiliation in the publication record is Bishop's University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Lorne A. Nelson have?

OpenAlex counts 110 works and 1,895 citations for Lorne A. Nelson, an h-index of 20, ranking #1,884,356 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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