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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

Horace W. Babcock

Horace W. Babcock publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astro and Planetary Science and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#128,244
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#54,786
of 358,040
Works
36
Citations
230
Citations per work
6.4

What does Horace W. Babcock research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 62.7%Computational Mechanics: 9.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3.9%Instrumentation: 3.9%other fields: 19.7%63%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics62.7%Computational Mechanics9.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3.9%Instrumentation3.9%other fields19.7%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics63% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation4% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography4% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Horace W. Babcock's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Dynamics Observatory, 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. Exoplanets101 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics101 topic
  3. Solar System Abundances91 topic
  4. Terrestrial Planets91 topic
  5. Coronal Mass Ejections81 topic
  6. Solar Dynamics Observatory81 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  9. Radio Astronomy31 topic
  10. Transits of Venus31 topic
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation21 topic
  12. GRACE21 topic
  13. Sea Level Rise21 topic
  14. Spectrograph21 topic
  15. Geomagnetic Field11 topic
  16. Magnetosome Formation11 topic

Where does Horace W. Babcock work?

Horace W. Babcock's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Wilson Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Horace W. Babcock have?

Science Explorer counts 36 works and 230 citations for Horace W. Babcock, ranking #128,244 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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