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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

Allen Sandage

Allen 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 History and Developments in Astronomy.

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World rank
#2,082,754
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#629,274
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
573
Citations per work
33.7
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 49% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Allen Sandage

What does Allen Sandage research?

Allen Sandage's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (90%), Engineering (8%), Mathematics (3%).

Physical Sciences: 17 works · 100.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 15 works · 89.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 10 works · 59.0% of their workInstrumentation: 4 works · 23.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 5.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 works · 2.6% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 7.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 7.7% of their workMathematics: 0 works · 2.6% of their workApplied Mathematics: 0 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAllen Sandage17works
Physical Sciences100%

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 Astronomy1589.8%
    2. Engineering17.7%
    3. Mathematics02.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics59% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  5. 5Applied Mathematics3% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Allen Sandage's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Optical 3D Laser Measurement and Position-Sensitive Detector.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets101 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics101 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation91 topic
  4. Spectrograph91 topic
  5. Radio Astronomy51 topic
  6. Transits of Venus51 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  9. Adaptive Optics21 topic
  10. Cosmology21 topic
  11. Galaxies21 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts21 topic
  13. Supernovae21 topic
  14. Wavefront Sensing21 topic
  15. Singular Spectrum Analysis11 topic
  16. Total Least Squares11 topic

Where does Allen Sandage work?

Allen Sandage's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Wilson Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Allen Sandage have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 573 citations for Allen Sandage, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,082,754 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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