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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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

World rank
#359,598
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#130,336
of 358,040
Works
33
Citations
59
Citations per work
1.8

What does Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 45.5%Instrumentation: 9.1%Philosophy: 6.1%Education: 6.1%other fields: 33.2%46%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics45.5%Instrumentation9.1%Philosophy6.1%Education6.1%other fields33.2%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation9% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy6% of their works
  4. 4Education6% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's research?

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

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. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  2. Transits of Venus41 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  4. Exoplanets31 topic
  5. Spectrograph31 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics31 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism21 topic
  8. Astrobiology21 topic
  9. Astronomical Calculator21 topic
  10. Cultural Diversity21 topic
  11. Educational Leadership21 topic
  12. Extraterrestrial Life21 topic
  13. Optical 3D Laser Measurement21 topic
  14. Position-Sensitive Detector21 topic
  15. Organoselenium Compounds11 topic
  16. Selenium Reagents11 topic

Where does Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin work?

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

How many publications and citations does Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin have?

Science Explorer counts 33 works and 59 citations for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, ranking #359,598 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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