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Researcher · Weizmann Institute of Science · Israel

Avishay Gal‐Yam

Avishay Gal‐Yam publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-3653-5598 OpenAlex
World rank
#110,874
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Israel
#928
of 38,292
Works
1,024
Citations
44k
Citations per work
42.8
h-index
112
i10-index 371Top 0.3% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Avishay Gal‐Yam

What does Avishay Gal‐Yam research?

Avishay Gal‐Yam's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (77%), Engineering (10%).

Physical Sciences: 896 works · 87.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 793 works · 77.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 591 works · 57.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 115 works · 11.2% of their workInstrumentation: 87 works · 8.5% of their workEngineering: 103 works · 10.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 37 works · 3.6% of their workComputational Mechanics: 36 works · 3.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 31 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 128 works · 12.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAvishay Gal‐Yam1,024works
Physical Sciences88%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy79377.4%
    2. Engineering10310.1%
  2. Everything else12812.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics11% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation8% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Avishay Gal‐Yam's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, High-Energy Astrophysics and Particle Acceleration.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Gravitational Waves8992 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts7131 topic
  3. Supernovae7131 topic
  4. Exoplanets2461 topic
  5. Stellar Astrophysics2461 topic
  6. Astronomical Instrumentation2151 topic
  7. High-Energy Astrophysics2151 topic
  8. Particle Acceleration2151 topic
  9. Spectrograph2151 topic
  10. Binary Black Hole1861 topic
  11. Neutron Star1861 topic
  12. Black Holes1611 topic
  13. X-Ray Astronomy1611 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement911 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector911 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances831 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets831 topic

Where does Avishay Gal‐Yam work?

Avishay Gal‐Yam's main affiliation in the publication record is Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

How many publications and citations does Avishay Gal‐Yam have?

OpenAlex counts 1,024 works and 43,827 citations for Avishay Gal‐Yam, an h-index of 112, ranking #110,874 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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