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Researcher · Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory · Chile

Alistair R. Walker

Alistair R. Walker publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0002-7123-8943 OpenAlex
World rank
#58,455
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Chile
#43
of 20,642
Works
556
Citations
28k
Citations per work
50.0
h-index
82
i10-index 314Top 1.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Alistair R. Walker

What does Alistair R. Walker research?

Alistair R. Walker's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (83%), Engineering (9%).

Physical Sciences: 513 works · 92.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 462 works · 83.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 315 works · 56.6% of their workInstrumentation: 103 works · 18.6% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 24 works · 4.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 20 works · 3.6% of their workEngineering: 51 works · 9.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 28 works · 5.0% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 23 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 43 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlistair R.Walker556works
Physical Sciences92%

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 Astronomy46283.1%
    2. Engineering519.2%
  2. Everything else437.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation19% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alistair R. Walker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies and Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets2911 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics2911 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation2901 topic
  4. Spectrograph2901 topic
  5. Star Formation2722 topics
  6. Cosmology1881 topic
  7. Galaxies1881 topic
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts1661 topic
  9. Supernovae1661 topic
  10. Molecular Clouds841 topic
  11. Protoplanetary Disks841 topic
  12. Optical 3D Laser Measurement781 topic
  13. Position-Sensitive Detector781 topic
  14. Adaptive Optics571 topic
  15. Wavefront Sensing571 topic
  16. CMOS Image Sensors541 topic
  17. High-Speed Imaging541 topic

Where does Alistair R. Walker work?

Alistair R. Walker's main affiliation in the publication record is Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile.

How many publications and citations does Alistair R. Walker have?

OpenAlex counts 556 works and 27,795 citations for Alistair R. Walker, an h-index of 82, ranking #58,455 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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