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Researcher · Australian National University · Australia

R. McCarthy

R. McCarthy 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.

OpenAlex
World rank
#204
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#6
of 140,210
Works
253
Citations
89k
Citations per work
350.0
h-index
104
i10-index 203Top 0.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
R. McCarthy

What does R. McCarthy research?

R. McCarthy's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (77%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (16%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 244 works · 96.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 195 works · 77.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 169 works · 66.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 14 works · 5.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 12 works · 4.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 40 works · 16.0% of their workOceanography: 28 works · 10.9% of their workGeophysics: 13 works · 5.1% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 3.3% of their workOcean Engineering: 8 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKR. McCarthy253works
Physical Sciences96%

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 Astronomy19577.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4016.0%
    3. Engineering83.3%
  2. Everything else93.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics67% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography11% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics5% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. McCarthy'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 Waves3452 topics
  2. Binary Black Hole2341 topic
  3. Neutron Star2341 topic
  4. Supernovae1532 topics
  5. Gamma-Ray Bursts1111 topic
  6. Neutron Stars1111 topic
  7. GRACE761 topic
  8. Sea Level Rise761 topic
  9. Black Holes621 topic
  10. X-Ray Astronomy621 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters421 topic
  12. Dark Energy421 topic
  13. Ring Laser Gyroscope231 topic
  14. Rotational Seismology231 topic
  15. High-Energy Astrophysics211 topic
  16. Particle Acceleration211 topic
  17. Seismic Noise171 topic
  18. Tomography171 topic

Where does R. McCarthy work?

R. McCarthy's main affiliation in the publication record is Australian National University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does R. McCarthy have?

OpenAlex counts 253 works and 88,553 citations for R. McCarthy, an h-index of 104, ranking #204 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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