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Researcher · Hong Kong Observatory · China

Pak Wai Chan

Pak Wai Chan publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Wind and Air Flow Studies and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research.

ORCID 0000-0003-2289-0609 OpenAlex
World rank
#682,770
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#89,501
of 978,568
Works
729
Citations
11k
Citations per work
15.4
h-index
52
i10-index 291Top 3.9% in Atmospheric Science
Pak Wai Chan

What does Pak Wai Chan research?

Pak Wai Chan's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (40%), Environmental Science (35%), Engineering (10%).

Physical Sciences: 615 works · 84.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 290 works · 39.8% of their workAtmospheric Science: 240 works · 32.9% of their workOceanography: 50 works · 6.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 252 works · 34.6% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 139 works · 19.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 94 works · 12.9% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 19 works · 2.6% of their workEngineering: 72 works · 9.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 72 works · 9.9% of their workEverything else: 114 works · 15.7% of their workTHEIR WORKPak Wai Chan729works
Physical Sciences84%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences29039.8%
    2. Environmental Science25234.6%
    3. Engineering729.9%
  2. Everything else11415.7%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science33% of their works
  2. 2Environmental Engineering19% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change13% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering10% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography7% of their works
  6. 6Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pak Wai Chan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Boundary Layer, Air Quality, Climate Change, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Tropical Cyclones, Global Warming and CFD Simulation.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Boundary Layer6002 topics
  2. Air Quality4223 topics
  3. Climate Change3653 topics
  4. Data Assimilation3251 topic
  5. Ensemble Kalman Filter3251 topic
  6. Tropical Cyclones3172 topics
  7. Global Warming3002 topics
  8. CFD Simulation2751 topic
  9. Urban Microclimate2751 topic
  10. Hurricanes2021 topic
  11. Storm Surge2021 topic
  12. Hydrological Cycle1922 topics
  13. Remote Sensing1592 topics
  14. Ocean Waves1151 topic
  15. Wind Stress1151 topic
  16. Climate Modeling981 topic
  17. Extreme Events981 topic
  18. Aerosols941 topic
  19. Climate941 topic
  20. Green Roofs651 topic
  21. Urban Heat Island651 topic
  22. Atmospheric Aerosols531 topic
  23. Black Carbon531 topic

Where does Pak Wai Chan work?

Pak Wai Chan's main affiliation in the publication record is Hong Kong Observatory, China.

How many publications and citations does Pak Wai Chan have?

OpenAlex counts 729 works and 11,215 citations for Pak Wai Chan, an h-index of 52, ranking #682,770 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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