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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics · Germany

Halton Arp

Halton Arp publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

OpenAlex
World rank
#863,176
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#50,636
of 86,443
Works
115
Citations
167
Citations per work
1.5

What does Halton Arp research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 47.5%Instrumentation: 22.5%Computational Mechanics: 6.3%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 3.1%other fields: 20.6%48%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics47.5%Instrumentation22.5%Computational Mechanics6.3%Nuclear and High Energy Physics3.1%other fields20.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics48% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Halton Arp's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Black Holes, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Stellar Astrophysics and Radio 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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation361 topic
  2. Spectrograph361 topic
  3. Black Holes272 topics
  4. Cosmology201 topic
  5. Exoplanets201 topic
  6. Galaxies201 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics201 topic
  8. Radio Astronomy121 topic
  9. Transits of Venus121 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement101 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector101 topic
  12. Accretion Disks71 topic
  13. X-Ray Astronomy71 topic
  14. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  15. High-Energy Astrophysics41 topic
  16. Particle Acceleration41 topic
  17. Supernovae41 topic

Where does Halton Arp work?

Halton Arp's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Halton Arp have?

Science Explorer counts 115 works and 167 citations for Halton Arp, ranking #863,176 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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