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Argentine National Observatory

In research, Argentine National Observatory stands highest in Physics and Astronomy (#1,595 of 2,917 worldwide), Astronomy and Astrophysics (#642 of 954 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#12,487 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics and Astronomy and Physical Sciences (Astronomy and Astrophysics is 100.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#27,094
of 34,923
Rank in Argentina
#151
of 178
Research works
470
▼ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.5k
18.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.79×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
66%
world 40%
International
43%
world 18%
Argentine National Observatory

What is Argentine National Observatory known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physics and AstronomyField #1,595 of 2,917 4.6%363
Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield #642 of 954 4.2%260
Physical SciencesDomain #12,487 of 17,446 5.0%442

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Argentine National Observatory sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Argentine National Observatory work in?

In 2022-now, 91% of research at Argentine National Observatory is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (76%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%), Engineering (4%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 38 fractional works · 91.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 32 fractional works · 76.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 22 fractional works · 52.2% of its workInstrumentation: 6 fractional works · 15.0% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKArgentineNational…42fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences91%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences3%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy3276.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences24.1%
    3. Engineering24.0%
    4. Environmental Science24.0%
    5. Computer Science01.0%
    6. Mathematics00.7%
    7. Materials Science00.6%
    8. Chemistry00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.0%
    3. Neuroscience00.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine12.1%
    2. Health Professions00.9%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.2%
    2. Social Sciences00.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.5%
    4. Psychology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Argentine National Observatory specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Astronomy and Astrophysics takes 100.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 22.0 works100×
  2. Physics and AstronomyField · 32.1 works34×
  3. Physical SciencesDomain · 38.4 works2.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.63× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.80× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 34.21× its world share, 32 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 34.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy34.21×32 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.63×2 works
  3. Environmental Science0.80×2 works
  4. Mathematics0.63×0 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.55×0 works
  6. Chemistry0.35×0 works
  7. Neuroscience0.34×0 works
  8. Health Professions0.32×0 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.27×1 works
  10. Engineering0.27×2 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×0 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.18×0 works
  13. Materials Science0.17×0 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.14×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.13×0 works
  16. Medicine0.11×1 works
  17. Social Sciences0.08×0 works
  18. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  19. Dentistry0.06×0 works
  20. Psychology0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Argentine National Observatory?

Ranked on the quality score, M. G. Abadi, Gaia Gaspar and R. Melia lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Argentine National Observatory.

  1. 1 M. G. Abadi Argentina · #1,152,271 worldwide 3.9k citations · 118 works
  2. 2 Gaia Gaspar Argentina · #1,234,028 worldwide 126 citations · 28 works
  3. 3 R. Melia Argentina · #1,525,228 worldwide 607 citations · 24 works
  4. 4 Charles Dillon Perrine Argentina · #1,672,796 worldwide 200 citations · 286 works
  5. 5 R. Petrucci Argentina · #1,686,592 worldwide 792 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 S. Gurovich Argentina · #1,696,486 worldwide 6.5k citations · 58 works
  7. 7 Dante J. Paz Argentina · #1,885,363 worldwide 1.2k citations · 59 works
  8. 8 E. Jofré Argentina · #1,940,836 worldwide 1k citations · 65 works
  9. 9 R. Petrucci Argentina · #1,992,715 worldwide 530 citations · 37 works
  10. 10 Federico A. Stasyszyn Argentina · #2,055,192 worldwide 1.1k citations · 58 works
All ranked researchers at Argentine National Observatory

What are the most cited papers from Argentine National Observatory?

The most cited paper from Argentine National Observatory is "The Astropy Project : Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*" (The Astropy Collaboration et al., 2022), with 5,044 citations. Next come "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way" (1,031) and "The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey. I. Science Goals, Survey Design, and Strategy" (839).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Astropy Project : Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package* The Astropy Collaboration et al. · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Open access136 authors 2022 5,044
2 VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way Dante Minniti, P. W. Lucas, J. P. Emerson et al. · New Astronomy Open access 17 Dec 2009 1,031
3 The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey. I. Science Goals, Survey Design, and Strategy Riccardo Giovanelli et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access 28 Nov 2005 839
4 The International Celestial Reference Frame as Realized by Very Long Baseline Interferometry Chao Ma, E. F. Arias, T. M. Eubanks et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access Jul 1998 781
5 Ram pressure stripping of spiral galaxies in clusters M. G. Abadi, Ben Moore, Richard G. Bower · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access Oct 1999 718
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Argentine National Observatory?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Star Formation, Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Dark Matter, Cosmology, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 26 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation10▲ 399×2 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation6▲ 454×1 topic
  3. Black Holes6▲ 153×3 topics
  4. Spectrograph6▲ 454×1 topic
  5. Dark Matter6▲ 126×3 topics
  6. Cosmology6▲ 210×2 topics
  7. Exoplanets6▲ 340×1 topic
  8. Galaxies6▲ 460×1 topic
  9. Stellar Astrophysics6▲ 340×1 topic
  10. Stellar Populations6▲ 460×1 topic
  11. Accretion Disks4▲ 203×2 topics
  12. Magnetic Fields4▲ 152×2 topics
  13. Molecular Clouds4▲ 333×1 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks4▲ 333×1 topic
  15. Supernovae2▲ 67×2 topics
  16. Climate Change2▲ 1.92×10 topics
  17. Solar System Abundances2▲ 91×1 topic
  18. Terrestrial Planets2▲ 91×1 topic
  19. Cosmological Parameters1▲ 60×1 topic
  20. Dark Energy1▲ 51×1 topic
  21. Spectroscopy1▲ 16×3 topics
  22. Cosmic Rays1▲ 55×2 topics
  23. Gravitational Waves1▲ 44×2 topics
  24. Neutrinos1▲ 55×2 topics
  25. Nucleosynthesis1▲ 52×2 topics
  26. Remote Sensing1▲ 2.0×5 topics

Which research topics does Argentine National Observatory publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

Astronomy and Astrophysi…6Astronomy and Astrophysical Research: 6 fractional worksGalaxies: Formation, Evo…6Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena: 6 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and …6Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 6 fractional worksAstrophysics and Star Fo…4Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies: 4 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Scie…2Astro and Planetary Science: 2 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitation Theories: 1 fractional worksGamma-ray bursts and supernovae: 1 fractional worksScientific Research and Discoveries: 1 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 1 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 0 fractional works
InstrumentationAstronomy and AstrophysicsStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsNuclear and High Energy Physics

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 6 works
  2. 2 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 6 works
  3. 3 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 6 works
  4. 4 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 works
  5. 5 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 works
  6. 6 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  7. 7 Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  8. 8 Scientific Research and Discoveries Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 1 works
  9. 9 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1 works
  10. 10 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available66.5%not open33.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors42.6%domestic only57.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Argentine National Observatory's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% lower than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Argentine National Observatory as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Argentine National Observatory0.00019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Argentine National Observatory over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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