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Claus Leitherer

Claus Leitherer publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

World rank
#95,515
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#41,929
of 358,040
Works
138
Citations
857
Citations per work
6.2

What does Claus Leitherer research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 57.8%Instrumentation: 22.7%Computational Mechanics: 3.9%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2.6%other fields: 13.0%58%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics57.8%Instrumentation22.7%Computational Mechanics3.9%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2.6%other fields13.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Claus Leitherer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies and Molecular Clouds.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets401 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics401 topic
  3. Star Formation372 topics
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation351 topic
  5. Spectrograph351 topic
  6. Cosmology191 topic
  7. Galaxies191 topic
  8. Molecular Clouds181 topic
  9. Protoplanetary Disks181 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  12. Adaptive Optics41 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  14. Supernovae41 topic
  15. Wavefront Sensing41 topic
  16. Electron Sources31 topic
  17. Photocathodes31 topic

Where does Claus Leitherer work?

Claus Leitherer's main affiliation in the publication record is Space Telescope Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Claus Leitherer have?

Science Explorer counts 138 works and 857 citations for Claus Leitherer, ranking #95,515 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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