Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · Southwest Research Institute · United States

William R. Ward

William R. Ward publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Oceanography, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#284,877
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#103,794
of 1,627,098
Works
125
Citations
8.8k
Citations per work
70.2
h-index
40
i10-index 57Top 10% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
William R. Ward

What does William R. Ward research?

William R. Ward's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (80%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (5%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 109 works · 87.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 100 works · 80.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 96 works · 76.9% of their workInstrumentation: 2 works · 2.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 works · 1.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 4.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 2.3% of their workOceanography: 3 works · 2.3% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 2.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 12.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam R. Ward125works
Physical Sciences87%

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 Astronomy10080.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences64.6%
    3. Engineering32.3%
  2. Everything else1612.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics77% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography2% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science2% of their works
  5. 5Instrumentation2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William R. Ward's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Molecular Clouds, Star Formation, Mars and Martian Surface.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar System Abundances1021 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets1021 topic
  3. Exoplanets551 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics551 topic
  5. Molecular Clouds451 topic
  6. Star Formation451 topic
  7. Mars371 topic
  8. Martian Surface371 topic
  9. Climate Change142 topics
  10. Coronal Mass Ejections121 topic
  11. Solar Dynamics Observatory121 topic
  12. GRACE81 topic
  13. Sea Level Rise81 topic
  14. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  15. Spectrograph71 topic
  16. Glacial Cycles61 topic
  17. Paleoclimatology61 topic

Where does William R. Ward work?

William R. Ward's main affiliation in the publication record is Southwest Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does William R. Ward have?

OpenAlex counts 125 works and 8,770 citations for William R. Ward, an h-index of 40, ranking #284,877 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about William R. Ward. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.