C. F. McKee

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

C. F. McKee is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, C. F. McKee has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Computational Mechanics and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in C. F. McKee's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (5 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (5 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (4 papers). C. F. McKee is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (5 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (5 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (4 papers). C. F. McKee collaborates with scholars based in United States. C. F. McKee's co-authors include L. L. Cowie, Mitchell C. Begelman, G. A. Shields, Steven A. Balbus, Carl Heiles, Andrea Ferrara, Paul R. Shapiro, J. C. Wheeler, M. Lecar and Craig L. Sarazin and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) and Medical Entomology and Zoology.

In The Last Decade

C. F. McKee

19 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

The evaporation of spherical clouds in a hot gas. I - Cla... 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300 400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The evaporation of spherical clouds in a hot gas. I - Classical and saturated mass loss rates
    1977 442 citations L. L. Cowie, C. F. McKee The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
C. F. McKee United States 11 1.1k 362 113 82 44 21 1.1k
W. A. Wheaton United States 16 665 0.6× 437 1.2× 100 0.9× 51 0.6× 36 0.8× 51 817
K. P. Singh India 17 1.2k 1.1× 360 1.0× 77 0.7× 34 0.4× 79 1.8× 144 1.2k
R. M. Wagner United States 23 1.5k 1.4× 310 0.9× 125 1.1× 50 0.6× 82 1.9× 76 1.5k
A. V. Koldoba Russia 22 1.8k 1.7× 335 0.9× 204 1.8× 45 0.5× 75 1.7× 57 1.8k
F. Paerels United States 13 788 0.7× 203 0.6× 179 1.6× 50 0.6× 30 0.7× 22 878
M. M. Romanova United States 26 2.0k 1.9× 304 0.8× 224 2.0× 43 0.5× 55 1.3× 73 2.1k
F. A. Primini United States 18 1.1k 1.0× 437 1.2× 171 1.5× 71 0.9× 92 2.1× 67 1.2k
G. V. Ustyugova Russia 23 1.8k 1.7× 365 1.0× 204 1.8× 44 0.5× 68 1.5× 46 1.9k
T. P. Sasseen United States 12 712 0.7× 198 0.5× 57 0.5× 88 1.1× 23 0.5× 26 786
A. R. Rao India 19 1.3k 1.3× 588 1.6× 116 1.0× 106 1.3× 42 1.0× 158 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by C. F. McKee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. F. McKee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of C. F. McKee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of C. F. McKee based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with C. F. McKee. C. F. McKee is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McKee, C. F., et al.. (2007). ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES. 1 indexed citations
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McKee, C. F., et al.. (2000). Report of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee. AAS. 196. 2 indexed citations
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Shull, J. Michael, Mark L. Giroux, Ralph S. Sutherland, et al.. (1995). Multiphase Gas in Quasar Absorption Systems. 80. 468. 1 indexed citations
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Ferrara, Andrea, C. F. McKee, Carl Heiles, & Paul R. Shapiro. (1995). The Physics of the Interstellar Medium and Intergalactic Medium. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 57. 79 indexed citations
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McKee, C. F.. (1995). The Multiphase Interstellar Medium. 80. 292. 3 indexed citations
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Klein, R., et al.. (1989). Turbulent stripping of interstellar clouds by interaction with supernova remnants. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 12. 117–136. 1 indexed citations
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Shields, G. A., C. F. McKee, D. N. C. Lin, & Mitchell C. Begelman. (1986). Compton-heated winds and coronae above accretion disks. II - Instability and oscillations. The Astrophysical Journal. 306. 90–90. 38 indexed citations
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Charles, P. A., S. M. Kahn, & C. F. McKee. (1985). Einstein observations of selected regions of the Cygnus Loop. The Astrophysical Journal. 295. 456–456. 23 indexed citations
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Begelman, Mitchell C. & C. F. McKee. (1983). Compton heated winds and coronae above accretion disks. II Radiative transfer and observable consequences. The Astrophysical Journal. 271. 89–89. 50 indexed citations
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Balbus, Steven A. & C. F. McKee. (1982). The evaporation of spherical clouds in a hot gas. III - Suprathermal evaporation. The Astrophysical Journal. 252. 529–529. 44 indexed citations
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McKee, C. F., et al.. (1981). Compton-Heated Winds from Accretion Disks in QSOs and Binary X-Ray Sources. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 13. 822.
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McKee, C. F., et al.. (1980). The compact radio source at the galactic center. The Astrophysical Journal. 239. 893–893. 21 indexed citations
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Begelman, Mitchell C., S. P. Hatchett, C. F. McKee, Craig L. Sarazin, & Jonathan Arons. (1980). Beam models for SS 433. The Astrophysical Journal. 238. 722–722. 73 indexed citations
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Arons, J., C. F. McKee, & C. E. Max. (1979). Particle acceleration mechanisms in astrophysics, La Jolla Institute-1979. American Institute of Physics eBooks. 56. 1 indexed citations
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Cowie, L. L. & C. F. McKee. (1977). The evaporation of spherical clouds in a hot gas. I - Classical and saturated mass loss rates. The Astrophysical Journal. 211. 135–135. 442 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blandford, R. D. & C. F. McKee. (1976). Relativistic Blast Wave Models of Active Galactic Nuclei.. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 8. 539.
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Cowie, L. L. & C. F. McKee. (1976). Extragalactic diffuse neutral hydrogen clouds - Probes of a hot intergalactic medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 209. L105–L105. 5 indexed citations
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Lecar, M., J. C. Wheeler, & C. F. McKee. (1976). Tidal circularization of the binary X-ray sources Hercules X-1 and Centaurus X-3. The Astrophysical Journal. 205. 556–556. 37 indexed citations
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Wheeler, J. C., C. F. McKee, & M. Lecar. (1974). Neutron Stars in Close Binary Systems. The Astrophysical Journal. 192. L71–L71. 12 indexed citations
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Birdsall, C.K., A. B. Langdon, C. F. McKee, H. Okuda, & David Y. Wong. (1969). THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS FOR A PLASMA CONSISTING OF CLOUDS INTERACTING WITH CLOUDS (CIC) WITH AND WITHOUT A SPATIAL GRID.. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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