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Researcher · Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics · Canada

R. C. Essick

R. C. Essick publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

ORCID 0000-0001-8196-9267 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,382
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#40
of 183,316
Works
207
Citations
56k
Citations per work
270.6
h-index
71
i10-index 124Top 2.3% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
R. C. Essick

What does R. C. Essick research?

R. C. Essick's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (74%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%), Computer Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 188 works · 90.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 154 works · 74.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 133 works · 64.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 14 works · 6.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7 works · 3.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 28 works · 13.7% of their workOceanography: 17 works · 8.3% of their workGeophysics: 11 works · 5.4% of their workComputer Science: 6 works · 2.9% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 6 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 19 works · 9.1% of their workTHEIR WORKR. C. Essick207works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Astronomy15474.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2813.7%
    3. Computer Science62.9%
  2. Everything else199.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics64% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography8% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics5% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. C. Essick'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 Waves2582 topics
  2. Binary Black Hole1731 topic
  3. Neutron Star1731 topic
  4. Supernovae1232 topics
  5. Gamma-Ray Bursts851 topic
  6. Neutron Stars851 topic
  7. GRACE471 topic
  8. Sea Level Rise471 topic
  9. Black Holes441 topic
  10. X-Ray Astronomy441 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters381 topic
  12. Dark Energy381 topic
  13. High-Energy Astrophysics171 topic
  14. Particle Acceleration171 topic
  15. Crystal Structure Prediction161 topic
  16. Mantle Dynamics161 topic
  17. Ring Laser Gyroscope101 topic
  18. Rotational Seismology101 topic

Where does R. C. Essick work?

R. C. Essick's main affiliation in the publication record is Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Canada.

How many publications and citations does R. C. Essick have?

OpenAlex counts 207 works and 56,019 citations for R. C. Essick, an h-index of 71, ranking #2,382 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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