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Researcher · Harvard College Observatory · United States

Edward C. Pickering

Edward C. Pickering publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astro and Planetary Science and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,196,493
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#295,249
of 358,040
Works
260
Citations
25
Citations per work
0.1

What does Edward C. Pickering research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 49.8%Atmospheric Science: 4.8%History and Philosophy of Science: 4.1%Computational Mechanics: 3.7%other fields: 37.6%50%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics49.8%Atmospheric Science4.8%History and Philosophy of Science4.1%Computational Mechanics3.7%other fields37.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Instrumentation4% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edward C. Pickering's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Antikythera Mechanism and Astronomical Calculator.

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 Astronomy641 topic
  2. Transits of Venus641 topic
  3. Solar System Abundances221 topic
  4. Terrestrial Planets221 topic
  5. Exoplanets191 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics191 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism171 topic
  8. Astronomical Calculator171 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation101 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement101 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector101 topic
  12. Spectrograph101 topic
  13. Ozone Depletion91 topic
  14. Stratospheric Water Vapor91 topic
  15. Global History71 topic
  16. Science Circulation71 topic

Where does Edward C. Pickering work?

Edward C. Pickering's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard College Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Edward C. Pickering have?

Science Explorer counts 260 works and 25 citations for Edward C. Pickering, ranking #1,196,493 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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