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Researcher · Lowell Observatory · United States

Byron W. Smith

Byron W. Smith publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Advanced optical system design.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,867,931
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,562,953
of 1,627,098
Works
21
Citations
52
Citations per work
2.5
h-index
4
i10-index 1Top 95% in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Byron W. Smith

What does Byron W. Smith research?

Byron W. Smith's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (44%), Engineering (23%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 66.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 works · 43.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 18.9% of their workInstrumentation: 4 works · 18.9% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 works · 5.7% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 22.7% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 works · 11.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 5.7% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 33.8% of their workTHEIR WORKByron W. Smith21works
Physical Sciences66%

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 Astronomy943.5%
    2. Engineering522.7%
  2. Everything else733.8%
  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics19% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation19% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Byron W. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Optics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Wavefront Sensing, Compound Eyes, Freeform Optics, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Laser.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Adaptive Optics101 topic
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation101 topic
  3. Spectrograph101 topic
  4. Wavefront Sensing101 topic
  5. Compound Eyes21 topic
  6. Freeform Optics21 topic
  7. Gamma-Ray Bursts21 topic
  8. Laser21 topic
  9. Optical 3D Laser Measurement21 topic
  10. Position-Sensitive Detector21 topic
  11. Semiconductor21 topic
  12. Supernovae21 topic
  13. Agile Software Development11 topic
  14. Camera Calibration11 topic
  15. Empirical Studies11 topic
  16. Structured Light11 topic

Where does Byron W. Smith work?

Byron W. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Lowell Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Byron W. Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 52 citations for Byron W. Smith, an h-index of 4, ranking #6,867,931 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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