Question 1

What is TMT Observatory known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, TMT Observatory stands highest in Physics and Astronomy (#1,460 of 2,917 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#9,423 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Physics and Astronomy (Physics and Astronomy is 22.9× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does TMT Observatory rank in research?

Accepted Answer

TMT Observatory ranks #27,381 of 34,923 institutions worldwide on research quality over all time, and #5,723 of 7,310 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at TMT Observatory?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Angel C. Otarola, C. Boyer and Sebastian G. Els lead among researchers whose main affiliation is TMT Observatory.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from TMT Observatory?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from TMT 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 "The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results from Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging" (1,718) and "Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Luminous Red Galaxy Sample" (1,039).

Question 5

Which research topics does TMT Observatory publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Calibration and Measurement Techniques.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at TMT Observatory?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, On-Orbit Performance and Radiometric Calibration.

Question 7

Which fields of science does TMT Observatory work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 92% of research at TMT Observatory is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (51%), Engineering (35%), Computer Science (3%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Is TMT Observatory's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021.

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