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Researcher · Goddard Space Flight Center · United States

Nelson McAvoy

Nelson McAvoy publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Laser Design and Applications, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,243,943
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,143,681
of 1,627,098
Works
42
Citations
560
Citations per work
13.3
h-index
12
i10-index 17Top 41% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nelson McAvoy

What does Nelson McAvoy research?

Nelson McAvoy's work is mostly in Engineering (29%), Chemistry (22%), Materials Science (12%).

Physical Sciences: 28 works · 67.2% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 29.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 12 works · 29.1% of their workChemistry: 9 works · 21.8% of their workSpectroscopy: 5 works · 11.8% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 2 works · 5.5% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 2 works · 4.5% of their workMaterials Science: 5 works · 11.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 5 works · 11.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 works · 4.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 32.8% of their workTHEIR WORKNelson McAvoy42works
Physical Sciences67%

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. Engineering1229.1%
    2. Chemistry921.8%
    3. Materials Science511.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy24.5%
  2. Everything else1432.8%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering29% of their works
  2. 2Spectroscopy12% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry12% of their works
  4. 4Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6% of their works
  5. 5Inorganic Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nelson McAvoy's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Electric Discharge, Laser Oscillation, Lanthanide Luminescence, MRI Contrast Agents, Spectroscopic Databases, Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers, Excited-State Proton Transfer and Intramolecular Charge Transfer.

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.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Electric Discharge141 topic
  2. Laser Oscillation141 topic
  3. Lanthanide Luminescence91 topic
  4. MRI Contrast Agents91 topic
  5. Spectroscopic Databases71 topic
  6. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers71 topic
  7. Excited-State Proton Transfer61 topic
  8. Intramolecular Charge Transfer61 topic
  9. Free-Space Optical Communication51 topic
  10. Optical Modulators51 topic
  11. Silicon Photonics51 topic
  12. Visible Light Communication51 topic
  13. Actinides41 topic
  14. Optical Interconnects41 topic
  15. Semiconductor Lasers41 topic
  16. Uranium41 topic

Where does Nelson McAvoy work?

Nelson McAvoy's main affiliation in the publication record is Goddard Space Flight Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nelson McAvoy have?

OpenAlex counts 42 works and 560 citations for Nelson McAvoy, an h-index of 12, ranking #4,243,943 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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