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Researcher · Carnegie Observatories · United States

I. B. Thompson

I. B. Thompson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-5130-6040 OpenAlex
World rank
#940,070
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#253,904
of 358,040
Works
46
Citations
95
Citations per work
2.1

What does I. B. Thompson research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 59.0%Instrumentation: 24.6%Computational Mechanics: 6.6%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3.3%other fields: 6.5%59%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics59.0%Instrumentation24.6%Computational Mechanics6.6%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3.3%other fields6.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics59% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation25% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging3% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe I. B. Thompson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets191 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics191 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation151 topic
  4. Spectrograph151 topic
  5. Accretion Disks92 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields92 topics
  7. Molecular Clouds61 topic
  8. Star Formation61 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  12. Supernovae41 topic
  13. Black Holes31 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy31 topic
  15. Adaptive Optics21 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets21 topic
  18. Wavefront Sensing21 topic

Where does I. B. Thompson work?

I. B. Thompson's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Observatories, United States.

How many publications and citations does I. B. Thompson have?

Science Explorer counts 46 works and 95 citations for I. B. Thompson, ranking #940,070 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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