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Researcher · Cardiff University · United Kingdom

W. K. Gear

W. K. Gear publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0001-6789-6196 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,867
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,350
of 90,785
Works
69
Citations
882
Citations per work
12.8

What does W. K. Gear research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 57.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 10.3%Instrumentation: 9.0%Computational Mechanics: 5.1%other fields: 17.9%58%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics57.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics10.3%Instrumentation9.0%Computational Mechanics5.1%other fields17.9%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics10% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation9% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. K. Gear's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, High-Energy Astrophysics, Molecular Clouds, Particle Acceleration, Protoplanetary Disks and Astronomical Instrumentation.

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. Star Formation172 topics
  2. Cosmology91 topic
  3. Galaxies91 topic
  4. High-Energy Astrophysics81 topic
  5. Molecular Clouds81 topic
  6. Particle Acceleration81 topic
  7. Protoplanetary Disks81 topic
  8. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  9. Exoplanets71 topic
  10. Spectrograph71 topic
  11. Stellar Astrophysics71 topic
  12. Epoch of Reionization61 topic
  13. Radio Astronomy61 topic
  14. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  15. Solar System Abundances41 topic
  16. Supernovae41 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets41 topic

Where does W. K. Gear work?

W. K. Gear's main affiliation in the publication record is Cardiff University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does W. K. Gear have?

Science Explorer counts 69 works and 882 citations for W. K. Gear, ranking #14,867 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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