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Timothy A. McKay publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Timothy A. McKay sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 404 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Timothy A. McKay D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Timothy A. McKay sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 112 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Timothy A. McKay is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and psychology, with particular emphasis on education and learning processes.

The primary fields of study associated with McKay include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Their work further specializes into subfields such as:

  • Education
  • Safety Research
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

McKay's research addresses several key topics, including:

  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Psychological and Educational Research Studies
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Online Learning and Analytics
  • Online and Blended Learning

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by McKay include:

  • "Systemic advantage has a meaningful relationship with grade outcomes in students' early STEM courses at six research universities" (2024) published in International Journal of STEM Education
  • "Campus Connections: Student and Course Networks in Higher Education" (2020) published in Innovative Higher Education
  • "It's Not That You Said It, It's How You Said It: Exploring the Linguistic Mechanisms Underlying Values Affirmation Interventions at Scale" (2021) published in AERA Open
  • "Real-world effectiveness of a social-psychological intervention translated from controlled trials to classrooms" (2022) published in npj Science of Learning
  • "Harnessing Data for Inclusive Ecology Education: Building Programs to Move the Discipline Toward Systemic Change" (2021) published in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

McKay frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • W. Carson Byrd
  • Benjamin P. Koester
  • Nita A. Tarchinski
  • Kameryn Denaro
  • Stefano Fiorini

Their publications appear across a variety of venues, notably:

  • International Journal of STEM Education
  • Innovative Higher Education
  • AERA Open
  • npj Science of Learning
  • Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Among the recognitions received, McKay was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

    D. G. York

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

    Donald G. York;J. Adelman;John E. Anderson;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

    Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

  • Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Idit Zehavi;David W. Hogg;Roman Scoccimarro

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

    C. Stoughton;R. H. Lupton;M. Bernardi;M. R. Blanton

  • Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release

    Chris Stoughton;Robert H. Lupton;Mariangela Bernardi;Michael R. Blanton;Michael R. Blanton

  • The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • The u'g'r'i'z' Standard-Star System

    J. Allyn Smith;J. Allyn Smith;Douglas L. Tucker;Stephen Kent;Michael W. Richmond

  • THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

    Max Tegmark;Michael R. Blanton;Michael A. Strauss;Fiona Hoyle

  • The u'g'r'i'z' Standard Star Network

    J. A. Smith;D. L. Tucker;S. Kent;M. W. Richmond

  • The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

    M Tegmark;M Blanton;M Strauss;F Hoyle

  • Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample

    Will J. Percival;Beth A. Reid;Beth A. Reid;Beth A. Reid;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Neta Bahcall

  • Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample

    Will J. Percival;Beth A. Reid;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Neta A. Bahcall

  • Color Separation of Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data

    Iskra Strateva;Željko Ivezić;Gillian R. Knapp;Vijay K. Narayanan

  • The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam

  • Evidence for reionization at z ∼ 6: Detection of a gunn-peterson trough in a z = 6.28 quasar

    Robert H. Becker;Robert H. Becker;Xiaohui Fan;Richard L. White;Michael Abram Strauss

  • The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey

    Kevork Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam

  • Evidence for Reionization at z ~ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson Trough in a z=6.28 Quasar

    Robert H. Becker;Xiaohui Fan;Richard L. White;Michael A. Strauss

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Frieman
Joshua A. Frieman University of Chicago
Risa H. Wechsler
Risa H. Wechsler Stanford University
Eli S. Rykoff
Eli S. Rykoff Stanford University
István Csabai
István Csabai Eötvös Loránd University
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
Neta A. Bahcall
Neta A. Bahcall Princeton University
James Annis
James Annis Fermilab
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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