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Richard McCray

Richard McCray publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

World rank
#280,501
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#107,288
of 358,040
Works
101
Citations
445
Citations per work
4.4

What does Richard McCray research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 54.3%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 10.9%Aerospace Engineering: 4.3%Radiation: 3.6%other fields: 26.9%54%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics54.3%Nuclear and High Energy Physics10.9%Aerospace Engineering4.3%Radiation3.6%other fields26.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics11% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  4. 4Radiation4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard McCray's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Black Holes, X-Ray Astronomy, High-Energy Astrophysics and Particle Acceleration.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Accretion Disks252 topics
  2. Magnetic Fields252 topics
  3. Gamma-Ray Bursts231 topic
  4. Supernovae231 topic
  5. Black Holes191 topic
  6. X-Ray Astronomy191 topic
  7. High-Energy Astrophysics111 topic
  8. Particle Acceleration111 topic
  9. Exoplanets91 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  11. Solar System Abundances71 topic
  12. Terrestrial Planets71 topic
  13. Coronal Mass Ejections61 topic
  14. Molecular Clouds61 topic
  15. Solar Dynamics Observatory61 topic
  16. Star Formation61 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic

Where does Richard McCray work?

Richard McCray's main affiliation in the publication record is Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard McCray have?

Science Explorer counts 101 works and 445 citations for Richard McCray, ranking #280,501 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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