Ian R. Smail
Ian R. Smail publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.
- World rank
- #16,061 of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
- Rank in United Kingdom
- #1,096 of 367,258
- Works
- 843
- Citations
- 55k
- Citations per work
- 65.0
What does Ian R. Smail research?
Ian R. Smail's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (91%), Engineering (4%).
Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.
The fields and subfields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences79794.5%
- Physics and Astronomy76590.7%
- Engineering323.8%
- Everything else465.5%
- 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
- 2Instrumentation22% of their works
- 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
- 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
- 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
- 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics1% of their works
Research topics
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
- Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
Which keywords describe Ian R. Smail's research?
The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.
- Position-Sensitive Detector
- Radio Astronomy
- Supernovae
- X-Ray Astronomy
- Protoplanetary Disks
- Stellar Astrophysics
- Magnetic Fields
- Spectrograph
- Galaxies
- Black Holes
- Star Formation
- Cosmology
- Astronomical Instrumentation
- Accretion Disks
- Exoplanets
- Molecular Clouds
- Event Horizon Telescope
- Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Epoch of Reionization
- Optical 3D Laser Measurement
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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.
All 20 words, with their numbers
- Star Formation8632 topics
- Black Holes7482 topics
- Cosmology6251 topic
- Galaxies6251 topic
- Astronomical Instrumentation5261 topic
- Spectrograph5261 topic
- Accretion Disks3612 topics
- Magnetic Fields3612 topics
- Exoplanets2691 topic
- Stellar Astrophysics2691 topic
- Molecular Clouds2381 topic
- Protoplanetary Disks2381 topic
- Event Horizon Telescope1231 topic
- X-Ray Astronomy1231 topic
- Gamma-Ray Bursts1071 topic
- Supernovae1071 topic
- Epoch of Reionization1041 topic
- Radio Astronomy1041 topic
- Optical 3D Laser Measurement931 topic
- Position-Sensitive Detector931 topic
Where does Ian R. Smail work?
Ian R. Smail's main affiliation in the publication record is Durham University, United Kingdom.
How many publications and citations does Ian R. Smail have?
OpenAlex counts 843 works and 54,791 citations for Ian R. Smail, an h-index of 122, ranking #16,061 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.
Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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