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Researcher · Goddard Space Flight Center · United States

David A. Cottingham

David A. Cottingham publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology, Superconducting and THz Device Technology and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories.

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World rank
#2,907,737
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#838,997
of 1,627,098
Works
64
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
22.0
h-index
12
i10-index 15Top 49% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
David A. Cottingham

What does David A. Cottingham research?

David A. Cottingham's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (57%), Engineering (21%).

Physical Sciences: 50 works · 78.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 37 works · 57.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 25 works · 39.4% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4 works · 6.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 works · 5.7% of their workInstrumentation: 3 works · 5.1% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 21.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 10 works · 15.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 21.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid A.Cottingham64works
Physical Sciences78%

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 Astronomy3757.1%
    2. Engineering1421.1%
  2. Everything else1421.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics39% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David A. Cottingham's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epoch of Reionization, Radio Astronomy, Superconducting Detectors, Terahertz, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Optics and Spectroscopy.

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. Epoch of Reionization231 topic
  2. Radio Astronomy231 topic
  3. Superconducting Detectors191 topic
  4. Terahertz191 topic
  5. Cosmological Parameters141 topic
  6. Dark Energy141 topic
  7. Optics121 topic
  8. Spectroscopy121 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation91 topic
  10. Spectrograph91 topic
  11. CMOS Image Sensors61 topic
  12. High-Energy Astrophysics61 topic
  13. High-Speed Imaging61 topic
  14. On-Orbit Performance61 topic
  15. Particle Acceleration61 topic
  16. Radiometric Calibration61 topic

Where does David A. Cottingham work?

David A. Cottingham's main affiliation in the publication record is Goddard Space Flight Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does David A. Cottingham have?

OpenAlex counts 64 works and 1,405 citations for David A. Cottingham, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,907,737 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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