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A. W. Blain

A. W. Blain publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

World rank
#4,650
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,202
of 358,040
Works
119
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
20.8

What does A. W. Blain research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 62.0%Instrumentation: 18.1%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 7.2%Computational Mechanics: 4.8%other fields: 7.9%62%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics62.0%Instrumentation18.1%Nuclear and High Energy Physics7.2%Computational Mechanics4.8%other fields7.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation18% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe A. W. Blain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes432 topics
  2. Star Formation432 topics
  3. Cosmology331 topic
  4. Galaxies331 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation291 topic
  6. Spectrograph291 topic
  7. Accretion Disks202 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields202 topics
  9. Exoplanets151 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics151 topic
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts131 topic
  12. Supernovae131 topic
  13. High-Energy Astrophysics111 topic
  14. Particle Acceleration111 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope101 topic
  16. Molecular Clouds101 topic
  17. Protoplanetary Disks101 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy101 topic
  19. Epoch of Reionization91 topic
  20. Radio Astronomy91 topic

Where does A. W. Blain work?

A. W. Blain's main affiliation in the publication record is California Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does A. W. Blain have?

Science Explorer counts 119 works and 2,477 citations for A. W. Blain, ranking #4,650 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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