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Researcher · Harvard College Observatory · United States

Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#833,917
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#235,073
of 358,040
Works
205
Citations
161
Citations per work
0.8

What does Harlow Shapley research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 42.9%Instrumentation: 10.0%Computational Mechanics: 6.9%History and Philosophy of Science: 2.2%other fields: 38.0%43%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics42.9%Instrumentation10.0%Computational Mechanics6.9%History and Philosophy of Science2.2%other fields38.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics43% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation10% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science2% of their works
  5. 5Archeology2% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Harlow Shapley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Optical 3D Laser Measurement and Position-Sensitive Detector.

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. Radio Astronomy321 topic
  2. Transits of Venus321 topic
  3. Exoplanets251 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics251 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation231 topic
  6. Spectrograph231 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement161 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector161 topic
  9. Antikythera Mechanism111 topic
  10. Astronomical Calculator111 topic
  11. Solar System Abundances111 topic
  12. Terrestrial Planets111 topic
  13. Astrobiology51 topic
  14. Extraterrestrial Life51 topic
  15. Geometry41 topic
  16. Hyperbolic41 topic

Where does Harlow Shapley work?

Harlow Shapley's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard College Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Harlow Shapley have?

Science Explorer counts 205 works and 161 citations for Harlow Shapley, ranking #833,917 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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