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Researcher · Australian National University · Australia

M. J. Yap

M. J. Yap publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Oceanography, on topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

ORCID 0000-0002-6492-9156 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,045
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#35
of 140,210
Works
168
Citations
71k
Citations per work
425.5
h-index
80
i10-index 129Top 1.6% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
M. J. Yap

What does M. J. Yap research?

M. J. Yap's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (79%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (12%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 159 works · 94.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 133 works · 79.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 109 works · 64.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 17 works · 9.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 8 works · 4.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 works · 11.5% of their workOceanography: 11 works · 6.7% of their workGeophysics: 8 works · 4.8% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 4.0% of their workOcean Engineering: 7 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKM. J. Yap168works
Physical Sciences95%

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 Astronomy13379.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1911.5%
    3. Engineering74.0%
  2. Everything else95.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics65% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography7% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics5% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. J. Yap's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Neutron Stars, Black Holes and X-Ray 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 Waves2272 topics
  2. Binary Black Hole1451 topic
  3. Neutron Star1451 topic
  4. Supernovae1122 topics
  5. Gamma-Ray Bursts821 topic
  6. Neutron Stars821 topic
  7. Black Holes401 topic
  8. X-Ray Astronomy401 topic
  9. GRACE311 topic
  10. Sea Level Rise311 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters301 topic
  12. Dark Energy301 topic
  13. Ring Laser Gyroscope191 topic
  14. Rotational Seismology191 topic
  15. High-Energy Astrophysics181 topic
  16. Particle Acceleration181 topic
  17. Nanomechanical Systems141 topic
  18. Optomechanics141 topic

Where does M. J. Yap work?

M. J. Yap's main affiliation in the publication record is Australian National University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does M. J. Yap have?

OpenAlex counts 168 works and 71,483 citations for M. J. Yap, an h-index of 80, ranking #1,045 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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