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Researcher · Warren Wilson College · United States

Donald F. Collins

Donald F. Collins publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

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World rank
#7,130,738
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,585,774
of 1,627,098
Works
42
Citations
95
Citations per work
2.3
h-index
5
i10-index 4Top 84% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Donald F. Collins

What does Donald F. Collins research?

Donald F. Collins's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (40%), Engineering (25%), Environmental Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 31 works · 73.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 17 works · 39.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 14 works · 32.4% of their workInstrumentation: 3 works · 7.4% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 25.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 5 works · 13.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 5 works · 12.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 4.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 4.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 3.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 2 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 26.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald F. Collins42works
Physical Sciences73%

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 Astronomy1739.8%
    2. Engineering1025.0%
    3. Environmental Science24.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences23.7%
  2. Everything else1126.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics32% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation7% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change5% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald F. Collins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation and Black Holes.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Optical 3D Laser Measurement141 topic
  2. Position-Sensitive Detector141 topic
  3. Accretion Disks112 topics
  4. Magnetic Fields112 topics
  5. Exoplanets91 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  8. Black Holes71 topic
  9. Spectrograph71 topic
  10. X-Ray Astronomy71 topic
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts61 topic
  12. Supernovae61 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds41 topic
  14. Star Formation41 topic
  15. Infrared31 topic
  16. On-Orbit Performance31 topic
  17. Radiometric Calibration31 topic
  18. Small Target31 topic

Where does Donald F. Collins work?

Donald F. Collins's main affiliation in the publication record is Warren Wilson College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald F. Collins have?

OpenAlex counts 42 works and 95 citations for Donald F. Collins, an h-index of 5, ranking #7,130,738 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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