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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Spencer Wheaton

Spencer Wheaton publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as High-Energy Particle Collisions Research, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies.

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World rank
#1,410,581
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#5,808
of 29,826
Works
43
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
45.2
h-index
14
i10-index 16Top 58% in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Spencer Wheaton

What does Spencer Wheaton research?

Spencer Wheaton's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (72%), Computer Science (6%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 35 works · 81.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 31 works · 71.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 27 works · 62.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 4.5% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 works · 4.5% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 6.3% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 works · 3.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 2.7% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 3.6% of their workComputational Mechanics: 2 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 18.6% of their workTHEIR WORKSpencer Wheaton43works
Physical Sciences81%

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 Astronomy3171.5%
    2. Computer Science36.3%
    3. Engineering23.6%
  2. Everything else818.6%
  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics62% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Spencer Wheaton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Lattice QCD, Heavy-Ion Collisions, Quark-Gluon Plasma, charmonium, QCD, High-Energy Collider, Particle Physics and Distributed Systems.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Lattice QCD532 topics
  2. Heavy-Ion Collisions311 topic
  3. Quark-Gluon Plasma311 topic
  4. QCD221 topic
  5. charmonium221 topic
  6. High-Energy Collider171 topic
  7. Particle Physics171 topic
  8. Distributed Systems31 topic
  9. Grid Computing31 topic
  10. Long-Range Interactions31 topic
  11. Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics31 topic
  12. Boltzmann Equation21 topic
  13. Kinetic Theory21 topic
  14. Molten Salt21 topic
  15. Nuclear Reactor21 topic
  16. Python21 topic
  17. Scientific Computing21 topic

Where does Spencer Wheaton work?

Spencer Wheaton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Spencer Wheaton have?

OpenAlex counts 43 works and 1,944 citations for Spencer Wheaton, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,410,581 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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