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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

George F. Smoot

George F. Smoot publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-7575-0816 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,921
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,840
of 358,040
Works
80
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
18.8

What does George F. Smoot research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 49.5%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 16.2%Instrumentation: 9.1%Oceanography: 6.1%other fields: 19.1%50%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics49.5%Nuclear and High Energy Physics16.2%Instrumentation9.1%Oceanography6.1%other fields19.1%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics16% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation9% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George F. Smoot's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Supernovae, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Axions, Cosmic Rays and Astronomical Instrumentation.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Supernovae232 topics
  2. Cosmological Parameters171 topic
  3. Dark Energy171 topic
  4. Cosmology162 topics
  5. Dark Matter162 topics
  6. Axions101 topic
  7. Cosmic Rays101 topic
  8. Astronomical Instrumentation91 topic
  9. Spectrograph91 topic
  10. Epoch of Reionization71 topic
  11. Radio Astronomy71 topic
  12. Black Holes61 topic
  13. GRACE61 topic
  14. Galaxies61 topic
  15. Gamma-Ray Bursts61 topic
  16. Neutron Stars61 topic
  17. Sea Level Rise61 topic
  18. Python31 topic
  19. Scientific Computing31 topic

Where does George F. Smoot work?

George F. Smoot's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does George F. Smoot have?

Science Explorer counts 80 works and 1,502 citations for George F. Smoot, ranking #5,921 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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