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Researcher · Royal Observatory in Greenwich · United Kingdom

George Biddell Airy

George Biddell Airy publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Geography, Planning and Development, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Historical Astronomy and Related Studies and Astro and Planetary Science.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,100,363
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#73,271
of 90,785
Works
161
Citations
44
Citations per work
0.3

What does George Biddell Airy research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 51.1%Computational Mechanics: 5.4%Geography, Planning and Development: 4.1%Oceanography: 4.1%other fields: 35.3%51%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics51.1%Computational Mechanics5.4%Geography, Planning and Development4.1%Oceanography4.1%other fields35.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics51% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  3. 3Geography, Planning and Development4% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography4% of their works
  5. 5Archeology4% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George Biddell Airy's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, 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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy491 topic
  2. Transits of Venus491 topic
  3. Antikythera Mechanism271 topic
  4. Astronomical Calculator271 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances201 topic
  6. Terrestrial Planets201 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement111 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector111 topic
  9. GRACE91 topic
  10. Geodesy91 topic
  11. Map Projections91 topic
  12. Sea Level Rise91 topic
  13. Mars81 topic
  14. Martian Surface81 topic
  15. Geomagnetic Field51 topic
  16. Magnetosome Formation51 topic

Where does George Biddell Airy work?

George Biddell Airy's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory in Greenwich, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does George Biddell Airy have?

Science Explorer counts 161 works and 44 citations for George Biddell Airy, ranking #1,100,363 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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