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Researcher · Las Campanas Observatory · Chile

Carlos Contreras

Carlos Contreras publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0001-6293-9062 OpenAlex
World rank
#284,745
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Chile
#317
of 20,642
Works
353
Citations
14k
Citations per work
39.2
h-index
59
i10-index 109Top 3.9% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Carlos Contreras

What does Carlos Contreras research?

Carlos Contreras's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (74%), Engineering (5%), Social Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 279 works · 79.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 262 works · 74.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 192 works · 54.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 40 works · 11.3% of their workInstrumentation: 30 works · 8.4% of their workEngineering: 17 works · 4.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 8 works · 2.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 8 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 65 works · 18.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 2.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 2.5% of their workDemography: 9 works · 2.5% of their workTHEIR WORKCarlos Contreras353works
Physical Sciences79%Social Sciences3%

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 Astronomy26274.2%
    2. Engineering174.8%
  2. Everything else6518.5%
    1. Social Sciences92.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics55% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics11% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation8% of their works
  4. 4Demography2% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Carlos Contreras's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration and Spectrograph.

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 Waves2862 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts2131 topic
  3. Supernovae2131 topic
  4. Black Holes812 topics
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation751 topic
  6. High-Energy Astrophysics751 topic
  7. Particle Acceleration751 topic
  8. Spectrograph751 topic
  9. Binary Black Hole731 topic
  10. Neutron Star731 topic
  11. Exoplanets581 topic
  12. Stellar Astrophysics581 topic
  13. Accretion Disks541 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy541 topic
  15. Cosmology271 topic
  16. Galaxies271 topic
  17. Solar System Abundances221 topic
  18. Terrestrial Planets221 topic

Where does Carlos Contreras work?

Carlos Contreras's main affiliation in the publication record is Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

How many publications and citations does Carlos Contreras have?

OpenAlex counts 353 works and 13,838 citations for Carlos Contreras, an h-index of 59, ranking #284,745 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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