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Gordon T. Richards

Gordon T. Richards publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

World rank
#12,888
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,221
of 358,040
Works
76
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
22.2

What does Gordon T. Richards research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 70.2%Instrumentation: 8.9%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 4.0%General Health Professions: 3.2%other fields: 13.7%70%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics70.2%Instrumentation8.9%Nuclear and High Energy Physics4.0%General Health Professions3.2%other fields13.7%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics70% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation9% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions3% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy2% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gordon T. Richards's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Event Horizon Telescope and X-Ray Astronomy.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes542 topics
  2. Star Formation362 topics
  3. Cosmology331 topic
  4. Galaxies331 topic
  5. Accretion Disks242 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields242 topics
  7. Event Horizon Telescope211 topic
  8. X-Ray Astronomy211 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts151 topic
  10. Supernovae151 topic
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation111 topic
  12. Spectrograph111 topic
  13. Exoplanets71 topic
  14. Stellar Astrophysics71 topic
  15. Epoch of Reionization51 topic
  16. High-Energy Astrophysics51 topic
  17. Particle Acceleration51 topic
  18. Radio Astronomy51 topic
  19. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  20. Protoplanetary Disks31 topic

Where does Gordon T. Richards work?

Gordon T. Richards's main affiliation in the publication record is Drexel University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gordon T. Richards have?

Science Explorer counts 76 works and 1,690 citations for Gordon T. Richards, ranking #12,888 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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