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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

George E. Hale

George E. Hale publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, History and Philosophy of Science and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,740,503
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#536,879
of 1,627,098
Works
384
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
7.5
h-index
19
i10-index 30Top 30% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
George E. Hale

What does George E. Hale research?

George E. Hale's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (48%), Arts and Humanities (5%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 210 works · 54.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 184 works · 47.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 162 works · 42.2% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 11 works · 2.9% of their workInstrumentation: 10 works · 2.7% of their workEngineering: 18 works · 4.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 18 works · 4.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 2.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 8 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 155 works · 40.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 19 works · 4.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 19 works · 4.9% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 19 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKGeorge E. Hale384works
Physical Sciences55%Social Sciences5%

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 Astronomy18447.8%
    2. Engineering184.8%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences82.2%
  2. Everything else15540.3%
    1. Arts and Humanities194.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics42% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Instrumentation3% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George E. Hale's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Antikythera Mechanism and Astronomical Calculator.

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. Radio Astronomy1621 topic
  2. Transits of Venus1621 topic
  3. Coronal Mass Ejections761 topic
  4. Solar Dynamics Observatory761 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement361 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector361 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism321 topic
  8. Astronomical Calculator321 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation211 topic
  10. Spectrograph211 topic
  11. Adaptive Optics201 topic
  12. Wavefront Sensing201 topic
  13. Global History191 topic
  14. Science Circulation191 topic
  15. Solar System Abundances161 topic
  16. Terrestrial Planets161 topic

Where does George E. Hale work?

George E. Hale's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Wilson Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does George E. Hale have?

OpenAlex counts 384 works and 2,865 citations for George E. Hale, an h-index of 19, ranking #1,740,503 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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