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Researcher · Carleton College · United States

Nelson L Christensen

Nelson L Christensen publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

ORCID 0000-0002-6870-4202 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,552
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,561
of 1,627,098
Works
666
Citations
110k
Citations per work
165.4
h-index
123
i10-index 402Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Nelson L Christensen

What does Nelson L Christensen research?

Nelson L Christensen's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (69%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (13%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 567 works · 85.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 460 works · 69.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 375 works · 56.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 46 works · 6.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 39 works · 5.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 88 works · 13.2% of their workOceanography: 59 works · 8.8% of their workGeophysics: 29 works · 4.4% of their workEngineering: 19 works · 2.9% of their workOcean Engineering: 19 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 99 works · 14.8% of their workTHEIR WORKNelson LChristensen666works
Physical Sciences85%

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 Astronomy46069.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences8813.2%
    3. Engineering192.9%
  2. Everything else9914.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography9% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics4% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nelson L Christensen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Neutron Stars, GRACE and Sea Level Rise.

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 Waves7452 topics
  2. Binary Black Hole5091 topic
  3. Neutron Star5091 topic
  4. Supernovae3452 topics
  5. Gamma-Ray Bursts2361 topic
  6. Neutron Stars2361 topic
  7. GRACE1591 topic
  8. Sea Level Rise1591 topic
  9. Cosmological Parameters1091 topic
  10. Dark Energy1091 topic
  11. Black Holes981 topic
  12. X-Ray Astronomy981 topic
  13. High-Energy Astrophysics591 topic
  14. Particle Acceleration591 topic
  15. Ring Laser Gyroscope511 topic
  16. Rotational Seismology511 topic
  17. Epoch of Reionization451 topic
  18. Radio Astronomy451 topic

Where does Nelson L Christensen work?

Nelson L Christensen's main affiliation in the publication record is Carleton College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nelson L Christensen have?

OpenAlex counts 666 works and 110,184 citations for Nelson L Christensen, an h-index of 123, ranking #4,552 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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