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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

G. S. Wright

G. S. Wright publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#922,807
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#75,556
of 367,258
Works
65
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
28.7
h-index
25
i10-index 30Top 22% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
G. S. Wright

What does G. S. Wright research?

G. S. Wright's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (77%), Chemistry (6%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 56 works · 86.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 50 works · 77.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 36 works · 54.7% of their workInstrumentation: 10 works · 15.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 works · 3.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 works · 3.4% of their workChemistry: 4 works · 6.1% of their workSpectroscopy: 4 works · 6.1% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 3.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 2 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 13.4% of their workTHEIR WORKG. S. Wright65works
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 Astronomy5077.1%
    2. Chemistry46.1%
    3. Engineering23.4%
  2. Everything else913.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics55% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation15% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy6% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe G. S. Wright's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation and Exoplanets.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation522 topics
  2. Black Holes332 topics
  3. Accretion Disks292 topics
  4. Magnetic Fields292 topics
  5. Cosmology281 topic
  6. Galaxies281 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation271 topic
  8. Exoplanets271 topic
  9. Spectrograph271 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics271 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds241 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks241 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts71 topic
  14. Spectroscopic Databases71 topic
  15. Supernovae71 topic
  16. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers71 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  19. Event Horizon Telescope51 topic
  20. X-Ray Astronomy51 topic

Where does G. S. Wright work?

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

How many publications and citations does G. S. Wright have?

OpenAlex counts 65 works and 1,868 citations for G. S. Wright, an h-index of 25, ranking #922,807 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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