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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 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

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World rank
#31,466
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,667
of 358,040
Works
121
Citations
1k
Citations per work
8.3

What does Allan Sandage research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 58.4%Instrumentation: 22.1%Computational Mechanics: 9.4%Oceanography: 2.0%other fields: 8.1%58%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics58.4%Instrumentation22.1%Computational Mechanics9.4%Oceanography2.0%other fields8.1%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography2% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics1% of their works
  6. 6Radiation1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Allan Sandage's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Black Holes 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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets361 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics361 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation331 topic
  4. Spectrograph331 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement141 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector141 topic
  7. Black Holes112 topics
  8. Radio Astronomy111 topic
  9. Transits of Venus111 topic
  10. Gamma-Ray Bursts81 topic
  11. Solar System Abundances81 topic
  12. Supernovae81 topic
  13. Terrestrial Planets81 topic
  14. Cosmology71 topic
  15. Galaxies71 topic
  16. Accretion Disks41 topic
  17. X-Ray Astronomy41 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?

Science Explorer counts 121 works and 1,001 citations for Allan Sandage, ranking #31,466 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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