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Researcher · W.M. Keck Observatory · United States

Dale Sandford

Dale Sandford publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,240,903
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#396,642
of 1,627,098
Works
29
Citations
15k
Citations per work
523.4
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 49% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Dale Sandford

What does Dale Sandford research?

Dale Sandford's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (67%), Engineering (17%).

Physical Sciences: 25 works · 84.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 20 works · 67.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 works · 27.9% of their workInstrumentation: 5 works · 17.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 12.8% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 3 works · 9.3% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 17.4% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 9.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 works · 8.1% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 15.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDale Sandford29works
Physical Sciences85%

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 Astronomy2067.4%
    2. Engineering517.4%
  2. Everything else415.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics28% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation17% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics13% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering9% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics9% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dale Sandford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Optical 3D Laser Measurement and Position-Sensitive Detector.

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. Astronomical Instrumentation151 topic
  2. Spectrograph151 topic
  3. Exoplanets121 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics121 topic
  5. Adaptive Optics91 topic
  6. Wavefront Sensing91 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  10. Supernovae41 topic
  11. CMOS Image Sensors31 topic
  12. Cosmology31 topic
  13. Galaxies31 topic
  14. High-Speed Imaging31 topic
  15. On-Orbit Performance31 topic
  16. Radiometric Calibration31 topic

Where does Dale Sandford work?

Dale Sandford's main affiliation in the publication record is W.M. Keck Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Dale Sandford have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 15,178 citations for Dale Sandford, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,240,903 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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