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Researcher · Institute of Astronomy · Russia

Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories.

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World rank
#328,426
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Russia
#666
of 179,717
Works
343
Citations
25k
Citations per work
72.1
h-index
59
i10-index 136Top 3.9% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Donald Lynden-Bell

What does Donald Lynden-Bell research?

Donald Lynden-Bell's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (76%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 275 works · 80.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 262 works · 76.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 172 works · 50.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 34 works · 10.0% of their workInstrumentation: 30 works · 8.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 15 works · 4.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 11 works · 3.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 13 works · 3.9% of their workOceanography: 13 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 68 works · 19.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDonaldLynden-Bell343works
Physical Sciences80%

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 Astronomy26276.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences133.9%
  2. Everything else6819.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics10% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation9% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography4% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald Lynden-Bell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy and Cosmology.

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. Star Formation852 topics
  2. Exoplanets801 topic
  3. Stellar Astrophysics801 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation771 topic
  5. Spectrograph771 topic
  6. Cosmological Parameters691 topic
  7. Dark Energy691 topic
  8. Cosmology551 topic
  9. Galaxies551 topic
  10. Radio Astronomy531 topic
  11. Transits of Venus531 topic
  12. Relativity471 topic
  13. Unified Field Theories471 topic
  14. GRACE321 topic
  15. Sea Level Rise321 topic
  16. Molecular Clouds301 topic
  17. Protoplanetary Disks301 topic

Where does Donald Lynden-Bell work?

Donald Lynden-Bell's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute of Astronomy, Russia.

How many publications and citations does Donald Lynden-Bell have?

OpenAlex counts 343 works and 24,725 citations for Donald Lynden-Bell, an h-index of 59, ranking #328,426 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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