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Researcher · Isaac Newton Institute · Chile

Gonzalo Alcaino

Gonzalo Alcaino publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

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World rank
#7,701,240
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Chile
#20,616
of 20,642
Works
166
Citations
602
Citations per work
3.6
h-index
13
i10-index 26Top 45% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gonzalo Alcaino

What does Gonzalo Alcaino research?

Gonzalo Alcaino's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (80%), Engineering (14%).

Physical Sciences: 156 works · 93.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 133 works · 80.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 79 works · 47.7% of their workInstrumentation: 49 works · 29.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 1.4% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 works · 1.4% of their workEngineering: 23 works · 13.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 21 works · 12.8% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 0.9% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGonzalo Alcaino166works
Physical Sciences94%

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 Astronomy13380.0%
    2. Engineering2313.7%
  2. Everything else106.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics48% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation30% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics1% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics1% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gonzalo Alcaino's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Exoplanets, Spectrograph, Stellar Astrophysics, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Star Formation and Molecular Clouds.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation1311 topic
  2. Exoplanets1311 topic
  3. Spectrograph1311 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics1311 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement571 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector571 topic
  7. Star Formation492 topics
  8. Molecular Clouds411 topic
  9. Protoplanetary Disks411 topic
  10. Radio Astronomy131 topic
  11. Transits of Venus131 topic
  12. Cosmology81 topic
  13. Galaxies81 topic
  14. Gamma-Ray Bursts81 topic
  15. Supernovae81 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances51 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets51 topic

Where does Gonzalo Alcaino work?

Gonzalo Alcaino's main affiliation in the publication record is Isaac Newton Institute, Chile.

How many publications and citations does Gonzalo Alcaino have?

OpenAlex counts 166 works and 602 citations for Gonzalo Alcaino, an h-index of 13, ranking #7,701,240 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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