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Researcher · SKA Observatory · United Kingdom

Alastair M. Stirling

Alastair M. Stirling publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,892,367
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#198,852
of 367,258
Works
46
Citations
2k
Citations per work
43.4
h-index
11
i10-index 14Top 52% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Alastair M. Stirling

What does Alastair M. Stirling research?

Alastair M. Stirling's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (80%), Engineering (12%).

Physical Sciences: 43 works · 92.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 37 works · 80.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 24 works · 52.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 12 works · 25.0% of their workInstrumentation: 1 works · 3.0% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 12.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 works · 5.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 2 works · 4.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlastair M.Stirling46works
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 Astronomy3780.3%
    2. Engineering612.1%
  2. Everything else37.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics25% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Instrumentation3% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair M. Stirling's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, Accretion Disks, X-Ray Astronomy, Epoch of Reionization and Radio Astronomy.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics301 topic
  2. Particle Acceleration301 topic
  3. Black Holes242 topics
  4. Gravitational Waves212 topics
  5. Accretion Disks201 topic
  6. X-Ray Astronomy201 topic
  7. Epoch of Reionization161 topic
  8. Radio Astronomy161 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts131 topic
  10. Supernovae131 topic
  11. Binary Black Hole81 topic
  12. Neutron Star81 topic
  13. Free-Electron Lasers71 topic
  14. X-Ray71 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  17. Cosmology41 topic
  18. Galaxies41 topic

Where does Alastair M. Stirling work?

Alastair M. Stirling's main affiliation in the publication record is SKA Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alastair M. Stirling have?

OpenAlex counts 46 works and 1,995 citations for Alastair M. Stirling, an h-index of 11, ranking #2,892,367 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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