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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

G. I. Thompson

G. I. Thompson 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
#3,890,147
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#250,422
of 367,258
Works
53
Citations
451
Citations per work
8.5
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 52% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
G. I. Thompson

What does G. I. Thompson research?

G. I. Thompson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (52%), Engineering (27%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%).

Physical Sciences: 46 works · 86.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 27 works · 51.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 17 works · 32.8% of their workInstrumentation: 10 works · 18.7% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 26.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 8 works · 15.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 6.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 3 works · 5.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 8.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 4 works · 8.2% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 13.4% of their workTHEIR WORKG. I. Thompson53works
Physical Sciences87%

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 Astronomy2751.5%
    2. Engineering1426.9%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences48.2%
  2. Everything else713.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics33% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation19% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics16% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe G. I. Thompson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Ozone Depletion and Stratospheric Water Vapor.

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. Exoplanets271 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics271 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation251 topic
  4. Spectrograph251 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement201 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector201 topic
  7. Ozone Depletion111 topic
  8. Stratospheric Water Vapor111 topic
  9. Coronal Mass Ejections81 topic
  10. Solar Dynamics Observatory81 topic
  11. On-Orbit Performance71 topic
  12. Radiometric Calibration71 topic
  13. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  14. Electron Sources51 topic
  15. Photocathodes51 topic
  16. Wavefront Sensing51 topic

Where does G. I. Thompson work?

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

How many publications and citations does G. I. Thompson have?

OpenAlex counts 53 works and 451 citations for G. I. Thompson, an h-index of 11, ranking #3,890,147 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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