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Researcher · Flometrics (United States) · United States

David B. Shaffer

David B. Shaffer publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena and GNSS positioning and interference.

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World rank
#3,745,723
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,034,979
of 1,627,098
Works
29
Citations
371
Citations per work
12.8
h-index
7
i10-index 7Top 73% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
David B. Shaffer

What does David B. Shaffer research?

David B. Shaffer's work is mostly in Engineering (42%), Physics and Astronomy (42%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%).

Physical Sciences: 26 works · 90.8% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 42.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 6 works · 22.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 3 works · 10.5% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 9.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 works · 42.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 7 works · 25.0% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 5 works · 17.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 6.6% of their workOceanography: 2 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 9.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid B. Shaffer29works
Physical Sciences91%

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. Engineering1242.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1242.1%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences26.6%
  2. Everything else39.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics25% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering22% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics17% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering9% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David B. Shaffer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epoch of Reionization, Radio Astronomy, High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration, Global Navigation Satellite Systems, GNSS, 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. Epoch of Reionization111 topic
  2. Radio Astronomy111 topic
  3. High-Energy Astrophysics101 topic
  4. Particle Acceleration101 topic
  5. GNSS91 topic
  6. Global Navigation Satellite Systems91 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement71 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector71 topic
  9. GRACE51 topic
  10. Sea Level Rise51 topic
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  12. Spectrograph41 topic
  13. Free-Electron Lasers31 topic
  14. Gamma-Ray Bursts31 topic
  15. Supernovae31 topic
  16. X-Ray31 topic

Where does David B. Shaffer work?

David B. Shaffer's main affiliation in the publication record is Flometrics (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does David B. Shaffer have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 371 citations for David B. Shaffer, an h-index of 7, ranking #3,745,723 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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