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Researcher · Armagh Observatory & Planetarium · United Kingdom

J. L. E. Dreyer

J. L. E. Dreyer publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, History and Philosophy of Science and Archeology, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Historical Astronomy and Related Studies and History of Science and Medicine.

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World rank
#2,428,751
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#172,538
of 367,258
Works
156
Citations
359
Citations per work
2.3
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 61% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
J. L. E. Dreyer

What does J. L. E. Dreyer research?

J. L. E. Dreyer's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (44%), Arts and Humanities (15%), Social Sciences (8%).

Physical Sciences: 74 works · 47.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 69 works · 44.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 69 works · 44.1% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 3.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 5 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 28.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 23.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 24 works · 15.4% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 13 works · 8.2% of their workArcheology: 11 works · 7.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 8.5% of their workAnthropology: 8 works · 4.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKJ. L. E. Dreyer156works
Physical Sciences47%Social Sciences24%

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
    1. Physics and Astronomy6944.1%
    2. Engineering53.3%
  2. Everything else4528.7%
    1. Arts and Humanities2415.4%
    2. Social Sciences138.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics44% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science8% of their works
  3. 3Archeology7% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology5% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. L. E. Dreyer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Historical Astronomy, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, History, Science and Archaeoastronomy.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy681 topic
  2. Transits of Venus681 topic
  3. Historical Astronomy502 topics
  4. Antikythera Mechanism391 topic
  5. Astronomical Calculator391 topic
  6. History171 topic
  7. Science171 topic
  8. Archaeoastronomy111 topic
  9. Cultural Landscapes111 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement91 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector91 topic
  12. Geodesy71 topic
  13. Map Projections71 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances71 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets71 topic
  16. Coronal Mass Ejections61 topic
  17. Solar Dynamics Observatory61 topic

Where does J. L. E. Dreyer work?

J. L. E. Dreyer's main affiliation in the publication record is Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does J. L. E. Dreyer have?

OpenAlex counts 156 works and 359 citations for J. L. E. Dreyer, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,428,751 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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