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Researcher · Carnegie Observatories · United States

Allan Sandage

Allan Sandage publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and History and Developments in Astronomy.

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World rank
#30,176
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#11,421
of 1,627,098
Works
450
Citations
24k
Citations per work
52.7
h-index
84
i10-index 249Top 1.3% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Allan Sandage

What does Allan Sandage research?

Allan Sandage's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (81%), Engineering (6%).

Physical Sciences: 391 works · 86.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 364 works · 80.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 243 works · 54.1% of their workInstrumentation: 100 works · 22.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 7 works · 1.6% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 7 works · 1.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 works · 1.3% of their workEngineering: 27 works · 6.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 27 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 59 works · 13.2% of their workTHEIR WORKAllan Sandage450works
Physical Sciences87%

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 Astronomy36480.8%
    2. Engineering276.0%
  2. Everything else5913.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Allan Sandage's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Star Formation, Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus and Cosmology.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation2571 topic
  2. Spectrograph2571 topic
  3. Exoplanets2291 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics2291 topic
  5. Star Formation1162 topics
  6. Radio Astronomy1001 topic
  7. Transits of Venus1001 topic
  8. Cosmology931 topic
  9. Galaxies931 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement701 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector701 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts611 topic
  13. Supernovae611 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances291 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets291 topic
  16. Molecular Clouds231 topic
  17. Protoplanetary Disks231 topic

Where does Allan Sandage work?

Allan Sandage's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Observatories, United States.

How many publications and citations does Allan Sandage have?

OpenAlex counts 450 works and 23,715 citations for Allan Sandage, an h-index of 84, ranking #30,176 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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