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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Astronomy · Germany

Adam K. Leroy

Adam K. Leroy publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2545-1700 OpenAlex
World rank
#24,022
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#1,402
of 364,343
Works
630
Citations
27k
Citations per work
42.2
h-index
81
i10-index 249Top 1.5% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Adam K. Leroy

What does Adam K. Leroy research?

Adam K. Leroy's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (84%), Chemistry (4%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 575 works · 91.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 528 works · 83.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 432 works · 68.5% of their workInstrumentation: 70 works · 11.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 14 works · 2.2% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 13 works · 2.0% of their workChemistry: 27 works · 4.3% of their workSpectroscopy: 27 works · 4.3% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 3.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 20 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 55 works · 8.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAdam K. Leroy630works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Astronomy52883.8%
    2. Chemistry274.3%
    3. Engineering203.2%
  2. Everything else558.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics68% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation11% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy4% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Adam K. Leroy's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds, Protoplanetary Disks, Black Holes, Cosmology and Galaxies.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation7482 topics
  2. Accretion Disks4292 topics
  3. Magnetic Fields4292 topics
  4. Molecular Clouds3981 topic
  5. Protoplanetary Disks3981 topic
  6. Black Holes3812 topics
  7. Cosmology3501 topic
  8. Galaxies3501 topic
  9. Exoplanets3161 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics3161 topic
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation1951 topic
  12. Spectrograph1951 topic
  13. Spectroscopic Databases721 topic
  14. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers721 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement561 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector561 topic
  17. Gamma-Ray Bursts551 topic
  18. Supernovae551 topic
  19. Event Horizon Telescope311 topic
  20. X-Ray Astronomy311 topic

Where does Adam K. Leroy work?

Adam K. Leroy's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Adam K. Leroy have?

OpenAlex counts 630 works and 26,570 citations for Adam K. Leroy, an h-index of 81, ranking #24,022 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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