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Researcher · Harvard College Observatory · United States

Cecilia H. Payne

Cecilia H. Payne publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Philosophy, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,311,938
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#312,654
of 358,040
Works
32
Citations
3
Citations per work
0.1

What does Cecilia H. Payne research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 46.4%Instrumentation: 21.4%Philosophy: 7.1%Artificial Intelligence: 3.6%other fields: 21.5%46%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics46.4%Instrumentation21.4%Philosophy7.1%Artificial Intelligence3.6%other fields21.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation21% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy7% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Education4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Cecilia H. Payne's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Radio Astronomy, Spectrograph, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Antikythera Mechanism and Astronomical Calculator.

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. Astronomical Instrumentation61 topic
  2. Radio Astronomy61 topic
  3. Spectrograph61 topic
  4. Transits of Venus61 topic
  5. Exoplanets51 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics51 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism11 topic
  8. Astronomical Calculator11 topic
  9. Optical 3D Laser Measurement11 topic
  10. Ozone Depletion11 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector11 topic
  12. Python11 topic
  13. Scientific Computing11 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances11 topic
  15. Stratospheric Water Vapor11 topic
  16. Terrestrial Planets11 topic

Where does Cecilia H. Payne work?

Cecilia H. Payne's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard College Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Cecilia H. Payne have?

Science Explorer counts 32 works and 3 citations for Cecilia H. Payne, ranking #1,311,938 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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