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Researcher · University of California, Santa Cruz · United States

Donald E. Osterbrock

Donald E. Osterbrock publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#27,540
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,912
of 358,040
Works
113
Citations
724
Citations per work
6.4

What does Donald E. Osterbrock research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 39.9%Instrumentation: 14.0%Computational Mechanics: 7.7%History and Philosophy of Science: 5.6%other fields: 32.8%40%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics39.9%Instrumentation14.0%Computational Mechanics7.7%History and Philosophy of Science5.6%other fields32.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics40% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation14% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald E. Osterbrock's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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. Radio Astronomy241 topic
  2. Transits of Venus241 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation201 topic
  4. Spectrograph201 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement111 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector111 topic
  7. Exoplanets101 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics101 topic
  9. Cosmology61 topic
  10. Galaxies61 topic
  11. History51 topic
  12. Science51 topic
  13. DNA Strand Breaks41 topic
  14. Low-Energy Electrons41 topic
  15. Spectroscopic Databases31 topic
  16. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers31 topic

Where does Donald E. Osterbrock work?

Donald E. Osterbrock's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald E. Osterbrock have?

Science Explorer counts 113 works and 724 citations for Donald E. Osterbrock, ranking #27,540 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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