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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

Edwin Hubble

Edwin Hubble publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

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World rank
#3,209,920
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#911,705
of 1,627,098
Works
109
Citations
6.4k
Citations per work
59.0
h-index
26
i10-index 33Top 21% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Edwin Hubble

What does Edwin Hubble research?

Edwin Hubble's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (66%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Engineering (6%).

Physical Sciences: 79 works · 72.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 72 works · 66.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 54 works · 50.0% of their workInstrumentation: 18 works · 16.1% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 6.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 7 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 19.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 7.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 7.9% of their workArcheology: 4 works · 3.9% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 works · 2.4% of their workHistory: 2 works · 1.6% of their workTHEIR WORKEdwin Hubble109works
Physical Sciences72%Social Sciences8%

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 Astronomy7266.1%
    2. Engineering76.3%
  2. Everything else2119.7%
    1. Arts and Humanities97.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation16% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  4. 4Archeology4% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science2% of their works
  6. 6History2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edwin Hubble's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, 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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy521 topic
  2. Transits of Venus521 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation411 topic
  4. Spectrograph411 topic
  5. Exoplanets391 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics391 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement161 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector161 topic
  9. Antikythera Mechanism141 topic
  10. Astronomical Calculator141 topic
  11. Supernovae92 topics
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts51 topic
  13. Neutron Stars51 topic
  14. Black Holes41 topic
  15. Cosmological Parameters41 topic
  16. Dark Energy41 topic
  17. X-Ray Astronomy41 topic

Where does Edwin Hubble work?

Edwin Hubble's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Wilson Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Edwin Hubble have?

OpenAlex counts 109 works and 6,426 citations for Edwin Hubble, an h-index of 26, ranking #3,209,920 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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