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B. A. Peterson

B. A. Peterson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

World rank
#4,981
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#112
of 35,497
Works
140
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
13.6

What does B. A. Peterson research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 31.0%Instrumentation: 8.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 6.5%Pathology and Forensic Medicine: 6.0%other fields: 47.8%31%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics31.0%Instrumentation8.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics6.5%Pathology and Forensic Medicine6.0%other fields47.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics31% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation9% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Pathology and Forensic Medicine6% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe B. A. Peterson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Cosmology, Galaxies and Classification.

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. Star Formation172 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation161 topic
  3. Spectrograph161 topic
  4. Exoplanets151 topic
  5. Stellar Astrophysics151 topic
  6. Cosmology111 topic
  7. Galaxies111 topic
  8. Classification101 topic
  9. Lymphoma101 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement101 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector101 topic
  12. Adaptive Optics61 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts61 topic
  14. Molecular Clouds61 topic
  15. Protoplanetary Disks61 topic
  16. Supernovae61 topic
  17. Wavefront Sensing61 topic

Where does B. A. Peterson work?

B. A. Peterson's main affiliation in the publication record is Australian National University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does B. A. Peterson have?

Science Explorer counts 140 works and 1,909 citations for B. A. Peterson, ranking #4,981 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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