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Brendan O’Connor

Brendan O’Connor publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

World rank
#1,445,921
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#332,154
of 358,040
Works
29
Citations
27
Citations per work
0.9

What does Brendan O’Connor research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 70.7%Computational Mechanics: 9.8%Biomedical Engineering: 4.9%Instrumentation: 2.4%other fields: 12.2%71%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics70.7%Computational Mechanics9.8%Biomedical Engineering4.9%Instrumentation2.4%other fields12.2%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics71% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation2% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brendan O’Connor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Black Holes, Accretion Disks, X-Ray Astronomy, Binary Black Hole and Neutron Star.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gravitational Waves152 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts111 topic
  3. Supernovae111 topic
  4. Black Holes102 topics
  5. Accretion Disks81 topic
  6. X-Ray Astronomy81 topic
  7. Binary Black Hole41 topic
  8. Neutron Star41 topic
  9. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  10. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  11. Astrobiology21 topic
  12. Cosmology21 topic
  13. Extraterrestrial Life21 topic
  14. Galaxies21 topic
  15. Crystal Structure Prediction11 topic
  16. GRACE11 topic
  17. Mantle Dynamics11 topic
  18. Sea Level Rise11 topic

Where does Brendan O’Connor work?

Brendan O’Connor's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Mellon University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brendan O’Connor have?

Science Explorer counts 29 works and 27 citations for Brendan O’Connor, ranking #1,445,921 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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