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Researcher · Carnegie Observatories · United States

Alan Dressler

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

ORCID 0000-0002-6317-0037 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,426
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,107
of 358,040
Works
120
Citations
2.3k
Citations per work
19.1

What does Alan Dressler research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 53.3%Instrumentation: 25.4%Computational Mechanics: 4.1%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3.0%other fields: 14.2%53%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics53.3%Instrumentation25.4%Computational Mechanics4.1%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3.0%other fields14.2%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics53% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation25% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Dressler's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Gravitational Waves.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes442 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation431 topic
  3. Spectrograph431 topic
  4. Cosmology371 topic
  5. Galaxies371 topic
  6. Exoplanets281 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics281 topic
  8. Gravitational Waves82 topics
  9. Accretion Disks71 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement71 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector71 topic
  12. X-Ray Astronomy71 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts51 topic
  14. Optics51 topic
  15. Spectroscopy51 topic
  16. Supernovae51 topic
  17. Binary Black Hole31 topic
  18. Neutron Star31 topic

Where does Alan Dressler work?

Alan Dressler's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Observatories, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan Dressler have?

Science Explorer counts 120 works and 2,292 citations for Alan Dressler, ranking #6,426 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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