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Researcher · Optica · United States

Charles Corson

Charles Corson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,048,399
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,306,884
of 1,627,098
Works
20
Citations
151
Citations per work
7.6
h-index
7
i10-index 7Top 73% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Charles Corson

What does Charles Corson research?

Charles Corson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (59%), Engineering (33%).

Physical Sciences: 18 works · 91.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 works · 58.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 works · 24.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 22.4% of their workInstrumentation: 2 works · 12.1% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 32.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 13.8% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 13.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 8.6% of their workTHEIR WORKCharles Corson20works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Astronomy1258.6%
    2. Engineering732.8%
  2. Everything else28.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics24% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics22% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering14% of their works
  5. 5Instrumentation12% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Charles Corson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Astronomical Instrumentation, Exoplanets, Spectrograph, Stellar Astrophysics, Infrared 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 Optics131 topic
  2. Wavefront Sensing131 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  4. Exoplanets71 topic
  5. Spectrograph71 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics71 topic
  7. Infrared41 topic
  8. Laser41 topic
  9. Semiconductor41 topic
  10. Small Target41 topic
  11. CMOS Image Sensors31 topic
  12. High-Speed Imaging31 topic
  13. On-Orbit Performance31 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  16. Radiometric Calibration31 topic

Where does Charles Corson work?

Charles Corson's main affiliation in the publication record is Optica, United States.

How many publications and citations does Charles Corson have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 151 citations for Charles Corson, an h-index of 7, ranking #5,048,399 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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