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Researcher · United States Naval Observatory · United States

Brian D. Mason

Brian D. Mason 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.

ORCID 0000-0003-4824-0938 OpenAlex
World rank
#57,064
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#26,003
of 358,040
Works
60
Citations
405
Citations per work
6.8

What does Brian D. Mason research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 45.3%Instrumentation: 16.0%Computational Mechanics: 10.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5.3%other fields: 22.7%45%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics45.3%Instrumentation16.0%Computational Mechanics10.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5.3%other fields22.7%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics45% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation16% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics11% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography3% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian D. Mason's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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. Exoplanets171 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics171 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation121 topic
  4. Spectrograph121 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement81 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector81 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds51 topic
  8. Star Formation51 topic
  9. Adaptive Optics41 topic
  10. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  11. Solar System Abundances41 topic
  12. Terrestrial Planets41 topic
  13. Transits of Venus41 topic
  14. Wavefront Sensing41 topic
  15. GRACE21 topic
  16. Sea Level Rise21 topic

Where does Brian D. Mason work?

Brian D. Mason's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Naval Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brian D. Mason have?

Science Explorer counts 60 works and 405 citations for Brian D. Mason, ranking #57,064 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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