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Researcher · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian · United States

Wen‐fai Fong

Wen‐fai Fong publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

ORCID 0000-0002-7374-935X OpenAlex
World rank
#40,865
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,914
of 358,040
Works
53
Citations
558
Citations per work
10.5

What does Wen‐fai Fong research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 84.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 6.8%Oceanography: 1.7%Computational Mechanics: 1.7%other fields: 5.1%85%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics84.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics6.8%Oceanography1.7%Computational Mechanics1.7%other fields5.1%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics85% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography2% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology2% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wen‐fai Fong's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Black Holes, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Accretion Disks and X-Ray Astronomy.

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. Gravitational Waves292 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts201 topic
  3. Supernovae201 topic
  4. Black Holes112 topics
  5. Binary Black Hole91 topic
  6. Neutron Star91 topic
  7. Accretion Disks81 topic
  8. X-Ray Astronomy81 topic
  9. Exoplanets51 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics51 topic
  11. High-Energy Astrophysics41 topic
  12. Particle Acceleration41 topic
  13. Cosmology31 topic
  14. Galaxies31 topic
  15. Solar System Abundances31 topic
  16. Terrestrial Planets31 topic
  17. Geomagnetic Field11 topic
  18. Magnetosome Formation11 topic

Where does Wen‐fai Fong work?

Wen‐fai Fong's main affiliation in the publication record is Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wen‐fai Fong have?

Science Explorer counts 53 works and 558 citations for Wen‐fai Fong, ranking #40,865 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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