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Researcher · California Institute of Technology · United States

J. Davy Kirkpatrick

J. Davy Kirkpatrick publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

ORCID 0000-0003-4269-260X OpenAlex
World rank
#9,323
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,503
of 358,040
Works
119
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
15.4

What does J. Davy Kirkpatrick research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 50.3%Instrumentation: 24.6%Computational Mechanics: 8.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2.7%other fields: 13.7%50%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics50.3%Instrumentation24.6%Computational Mechanics8.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2.7%other fields13.7%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation25% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography2% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. Davy Kirkpatrick's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector and Molecular Clouds.

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. Exoplanets501 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics501 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation451 topic
  4. Spectrograph451 topic
  5. Star Formation202 topics
  6. Optical 3D Laser Measurement161 topic
  7. Position-Sensitive Detector161 topic
  8. Molecular Clouds151 topic
  9. Protoplanetary Disks151 topic
  10. Gamma-Ray Bursts81 topic
  11. Supernovae81 topic
  12. Solar System Abundances61 topic
  13. Terrestrial Planets61 topic
  14. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  15. Cosmology51 topic
  16. Galaxies51 topic
  17. Wavefront Sensing51 topic

Where does J. Davy Kirkpatrick work?

J. Davy Kirkpatrick's main affiliation in the publication record is California Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does J. Davy Kirkpatrick have?

Science Explorer counts 119 works and 1,832 citations for J. Davy Kirkpatrick, ranking #9,323 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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