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Researcher · Space Telescope Science Institute · United States

B. Lawton

B. Lawton publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Instrumentation, on topics such as Space exploration and regulation, History and Developments in Astronomy and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life.

ORCID 0000-0002-5972-9555 OpenAlex
World rank
#235,191
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#92,837
of 358,040
Works
32
Citations
64
Citations per work
2.0

What does B. Lawton research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 46.7%Aerospace Engineering: 13.3%Instrumentation: 10.0%Biomedical Engineering: 6.7%other fields: 23.3%47%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics46.7%Aerospace Engineering13.3%Instrumentation10.0%Biomedical Engineering6.7%other fields23.3%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics47% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering13% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation10% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography3% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe B. Lawton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Space Policy, Space Tourism, Astrobiology, Astronomical Instrumentation, Extraterrestrial Life, Radio Astronomy, Spectrograph and Transits of Venus.

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. Space Policy41 topic
  2. Space Tourism41 topic
  3. Astrobiology31 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  5. Extraterrestrial Life31 topic
  6. Radio Astronomy31 topic
  7. Spectrograph31 topic
  8. Transits of Venus31 topic
  9. Exoplanets21 topic
  10. Extravehicular Activity21 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  12. Space Suit21 topic
  13. Star Formation21 topic
  14. Stellar Astrophysics21 topic
  15. Higher Education11 topic
  16. Mobile Learning11 topic

Where does B. Lawton work?

B. Lawton's main affiliation in the publication record is Space Telescope Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does B. Lawton have?

Science Explorer counts 32 works and 64 citations for B. Lawton, ranking #235,191 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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