Researchers at Mount Wilson Observatory
Alina Surmacka Szczesniak, Walter S. Adams and Alfred H. Joy rank highest among 15 ranked researchers whose main affiliation is Mount Wilson Observatory.
The ranking
- 1Alina Surmacka Szczesniak
United States · #140,745 worldwide7.4k citations · 65 works - 2Walter S. AdamsUnited States · #1,273,603 worldwide2.9k citations · 363 works
- 3Alfred H. JoyUnited States · #1,587,709 worldwide3.3k citations · 231 works
- 4Paul Willard MerrillUnited States · #1,723,788 worldwide2.2k citations · 380 works
- 5George E. HaleUnited States · #1,740,503 worldwide2.9k citations · 384 works
- 6Harold D. BabcockUnited States · #1,895,005 worldwide1.7k citations · 105 works
- 7Allen SandageUnited States · #2,082,754 worldwide573 citations · 17 works
- 8Charles E. St. JohnUnited States · #2,886,637 worldwide387 citations · 91 works
- 9Edwin HubbleUnited States · #3,209,920 worldwide6.4k citations · 109 works
- 10Frederick Hanley SearesUnited States · #3,483,581 worldwide388 citations · 168 works
- 11Arthur S. KingUnited States · #3,583,525 worldwide581 citations · 148 works
- 12GreavesUnited States · #3,688,430 worldwide177 citations · 18 works
- 13Francis G. PeaseUnited States · #4,030,488 worldwide1.1k citations · 71 works
- 14Sinclair SmithUnited States · #4,952,440 worldwide333 citations · 15 works
- 15van RhijnUnited States · #5,214,626 worldwide64 citations · 32 works
Output against citations per work
A long record and a heavily-cited one are not the same career, and a list ordered by either buries the other. The upper left is a small body of work that travelled a long way.
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One dot per researcher in the list above.
Ranked on quality: the share of their papers in the world top 10% for their field and year, with output counting too. Affiliation is the institution a researcher publishes from most; identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation.