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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

Charles Piazzi Smyth

Charles Piazzi Smyth publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Archeology and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Historical Astronomy and Related Studies and Ancient Egypt and Archaeology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,723,346
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#129,607
of 367,258
Works
163
Citations
505
Citations per work
3.1
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 67% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Charles Piazzi Smyth

What does Charles Piazzi Smyth research?

Charles Piazzi Smyth's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (32%), Arts and Humanities (16%), Environmental Science (5%).

Everything else: 73 works · 44.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 60 works · 37.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 52 works · 32.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 52 works · 32.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 5.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 8 works · 5.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 30 works · 18.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 26 works · 15.7% of their workArcheology: 13 works · 8.2% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 8 works · 4.8% of their workHistory: 4 works · 2.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 2.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 2.4% of their workTHEIR WORKCharles PiazziSmyth163works
Physical Sciences37%Social Sciences18%

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. Everything else7344.8%
    1. Physics and Astronomy5232.0%
    2. Environmental Science85.1%
    1. Arts and Humanities2615.7%
    2. Social Sciences42.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics32% of their works
  2. 2Archeology8% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change5% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  5. 5History3% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Charles Piazzi Smyth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Historical Astronomy, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Ancient Egypt, Linguistics and Archaeoastronomy.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy561 topic
  2. Transits of Venus561 topic
  3. Historical Astronomy352 topics
  4. Antikythera Mechanism271 topic
  5. Astronomical Calculator271 topic
  6. Ancient Egypt91 topic
  7. Linguistics91 topic
  8. Archaeoastronomy81 topic
  9. Cultural Landscapes81 topic
  10. Climate Change61 topic
  11. Environmental Science61 topic
  12. Global History61 topic
  13. Science Circulation61 topic
  14. Coronal Mass Ejections51 topic
  15. Solar Dynamics Observatory51 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances51 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets51 topic

Where does Charles Piazzi Smyth work?

Charles Piazzi Smyth's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Charles Piazzi Smyth have?

OpenAlex counts 163 works and 505 citations for Charles Piazzi Smyth, an h-index of 8, ranking #1,723,346 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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