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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

W. M. Napier

W. M. Napier publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Ecology, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,635,907
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#123,924
of 367,258
Works
122
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
15.1
h-index
24
i10-index 44Top 23% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
W. M. Napier

What does W. M. Napier research?

W. M. Napier's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (65%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%), Environmental Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 98 works · 80.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 79 works · 64.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 72 works · 59.1% of their workInstrumentation: 7 works · 5.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 13 works · 10.5% of their workAtmospheric Science: 6 works · 4.6% of their workPaleontology: 4 works · 3.6% of their workGeophysics: 3 works · 2.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 5.3% of their workEcology: 6 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 19.5% of their workTHEIR WORKW. M. Napier122works
Physical Sciences80%

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 Astronomy7964.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1310.5%
    3. Environmental Science65.3%
  2. Everything else2419.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics59% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation6% of their works
  3. 3Ecology5% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology4% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. M. Napier's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Mars, Martian Surface, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar System Abundances651 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets651 topic
  3. Mars331 topic
  4. Martian Surface331 topic
  5. Exoplanets281 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics281 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation171 topic
  8. Spectrograph171 topic
  9. Stable Isotopes141 topic
  10. Trophic Position141 topic
  11. Climate Change131 topic
  12. Paleoclimatology131 topic
  13. Astrobiology121 topic
  14. Extraterrestrial Life121 topic
  15. Cosmology111 topic
  16. Galaxies111 topic

Where does W. M. Napier work?

W. M. Napier's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does W. M. Napier have?

OpenAlex counts 122 works and 1,846 citations for W. M. Napier, an h-index of 24, ranking #1,635,907 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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