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Alan P. Boss

Alan P. Boss publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Geophysics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astro and Planetary Science.

World rank
#156,448
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#65,368
of 358,040
Works
26
Citations
283
Citations per work
10.9

What does Alan P. Boss research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 56.8%Instrumentation: 16.2%Geophysics: 8.1%Materials Chemistry: 5.4%other fields: 13.5%57%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics56.8%Instrumentation16.2%Geophysics8.1%Materials Chemistry5.4%other fields13.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation16% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics8% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan P. Boss's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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. Exoplanets81 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics81 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation61 topic
  4. Spectrograph61 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances51 topic
  6. Terrestrial Planets51 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds41 topic
  8. Star Formation41 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts31 topic
  10. Plate Tectonics32 topics
  11. Supernovae31 topic
  12. Crystal Structure Prediction21 topic
  13. Mantle Dynamics21 topic
  14. Geochronology11 topic
  15. Geomagnetic Field11 topic
  16. Magnetosome Formation11 topic
  17. Zircon11 topic

Where does Alan P. Boss work?

Alan P. Boss's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Institution for Science, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan P. Boss have?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 283 citations for Alan P. Boss, ranking #156,448 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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