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Researcher · Jet Propulsion Laboratory · United States

William R. Ward

William R. Ward publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Planetary Science and Exploration.

OpenAlex
World rank
#70,485
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#31,702
of 358,040
Works
28
Citations
469
Citations per work
16.8

What does William R. Ward research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 78.4%Instrumentation: 8.1%Atmospheric Science: 8.1%Aerospace Engineering: 2.7%other fields: 2.7%78%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics78.4%Instrumentation8.1%Atmospheric Science8.1%Aerospace Engineering2.7%other fields2.7%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics78% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation8% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics3% 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, Mars, Martian Surface, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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. Solar System Abundances111 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets111 topic
  3. Exoplanets61 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics61 topic
  5. Mars51 topic
  6. Martian Surface51 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds41 topic
  8. Star Formation41 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  10. Climate Change32 topics
  11. Paleoclimatology32 topics
  12. Spectrograph31 topic
  13. Glacial Cycles21 topic
  14. Holocene21 topic
  15. Extravehicular Activity11 topic
  16. Space Suit11 topic
  17. Temperature Variability11 topic
  18. Tree Rings11 topic

Where does William R. Ward work?

William R. Ward's main affiliation in the publication record is Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States.

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

Science Explorer counts 28 works and 469 citations for William R. Ward, ranking #70,485 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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