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Researcher · Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos · Switzerland

William T. Ball

William T. Ball publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0002-1005-3670 OpenAlex
World rank
#634,195
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#11,410
of 80,918
Works
113
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
21.4
h-index
25
i10-index 33Top 21% in Atmospheric Science
William T. Ball

What does William T. Ball research?

William T. Ball's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (48%), Environmental Science (25%), Physics and Astronomy (10%).

Physical Sciences: 104 works · 92.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 54 works · 47.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 52 works · 45.8% of their workOceanography: 2 works · 1.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 29 works · 25.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 29 works · 25.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 works · 10.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 12 works · 10.3% of their workComputer Science: 7 works · 6.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 7 works · 6.2% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 2.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam T. Ball113works
Physical Sciences92%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences5447.6%
    2. Environmental Science2925.3%
    3. Physics and Astronomy1210.3%
    4. Computer Science76.2%
    5. Engineering32.9%
  2. Everything else97.7%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science46% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change25% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics10% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William T. Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ozone Depletion, Stratospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Aerosols, Black Carbon, Emissions, Methane, Climate Change and Coronal Mass Ejections.

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. Ozone Depletion741 topic
  2. Stratospheric Water Vapor741 topic
  3. Atmospheric Aerosols441 topic
  4. Black Carbon441 topic
  5. Emissions421 topic
  6. Methane421 topic
  7. Climate Change252 topics
  8. Coronal Mass Ejections171 topic
  9. Extreme Events171 topic
  10. Forecasting171 topic
  11. Global Warming171 topic
  12. Solar Dynamics Observatory171 topic
  13. Solar Radiation171 topic
  14. Ethics81 topic
  15. Geoengineering81 topic
  16. On-Orbit Performance71 topic
  17. Radiometric Calibration71 topic

Where does William T. Ball work?

William T. Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does William T. Ball have?

OpenAlex counts 113 works and 2,423 citations for William T. Ball, an h-index of 25, ranking #634,195 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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