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Gérard Petit

Gérard Petit publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, on topics such as Advanced Frequency and Time Standards, Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis.

World rank
#73,772
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#3,916
of 96,116
Works
66
Citations
221
Citations per work
3.3

What does Gérard Petit research?

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 27.8%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 12.5%Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 9.7%Philosophy: 8.3%other fields: 41.7%28%top field
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics27.8%Astronomy and Astrophysics12.5%Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty9.7%Philosophy8.3%other fields41.7%

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

  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics28% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics12% of their works
  3. 3Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty10% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy8% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics6% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gérard Petit's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Atomic Clocks, Optical Clocks, Measurement Uncertainty, Redefinition of SI Units, Argumentation, Discourse Analysis, Atomic Magnetometer and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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. Atomic Clocks121 topic
  2. Optical Clocks121 topic
  3. Measurement Uncertainty71 topic
  4. Redefinition of SI Units71 topic
  5. Argumentation61 topic
  6. Discourse Analysis61 topic
  7. Atomic Magnetometer51 topic
  8. Magnetic Resonance Imaging51 topic
  9. GRACE41 topic
  10. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  11. Sea Level Rise41 topic
  12. Transits of Venus41 topic
  13. Language Teaching31 topic
  14. Linguistic Historiography31 topic
  15. GNSS21 topic
  16. Global Navigation Satellite Systems21 topic

Where does Gérard Petit work?

Gérard Petit's main affiliation in the publication record is Bureau international des poids et mesures, France.

How many publications and citations does Gérard Petit have?

Science Explorer counts 66 works and 221 citations for Gérard Petit, ranking #73,772 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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