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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

G. de Vaucouleurs

G. de Vaucouleurs publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

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World rank
#4,315,269
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#270,640
of 367,258
Works
18
Citations
278
Citations per work
15.4
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 61% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
G. de Vaucouleurs

What does G. de Vaucouleurs research?

G. de Vaucouleurs's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (67%), Engineering (19%), Environmental Science (4%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 89.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 works · 66.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 7 works · 39.6% of their workInstrumentation: 5 works · 27.1% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 18.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 2 works · 10.4% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 4.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 4.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 4.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 10.3% of their workTHEIR WORKG. de Vaucouleurs18works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy1266.7%
    2. Engineering318.8%
    3. Environmental Science14.2%
  2. Everything else210.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics40% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation27% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe G. de Vaucouleurs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Exoplanets, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector 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. 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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation131 topic
  2. Spectrograph131 topic
  3. Cosmology101 topic
  4. Galaxies101 topic
  5. Exoplanets51 topic
  6. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  7. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics51 topic
  9. CMOS Image Sensors21 topic
  10. Economic Growth21 topic
  11. Electron Sources21 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts21 topic
  13. High-Speed Imaging21 topic
  14. Nighttime Light Data21 topic
  15. Photocathodes21 topic
  16. Supernovae21 topic

Where does G. de Vaucouleurs work?

G. de Vaucouleurs's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does G. de Vaucouleurs have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 278 citations for G. de Vaucouleurs, an h-index of 9, ranking #4,315,269 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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