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Researcher · Dominion Astrophysical Observatory · Canada

J. S. Plaskett

J. S. Plaskett publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#232,856
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#8,096
of 38,960
Works
39
Citations
77
Citations per work
2.0

What does J. S. Plaskett research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 42.5%Computational Mechanics: 12.5%Instrumentation: 10.0%History and Philosophy of Science: 5.0%other fields: 30.0%42%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics42.5%Computational Mechanics12.5%Instrumentation10.0%History and Philosophy of Science5.0%other fields30.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics42% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics12% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation10% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  6. 6Archeology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. S. Plaskett's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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. Radio Astronomy71 topic
  2. Transits of Venus71 topic
  3. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  4. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  5. Antikythera Mechanism41 topic
  6. Astronomical Calculator41 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  8. Spectrograph41 topic
  9. Exoplanets21 topic
  10. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  11. Stellar Astrophysics21 topic
  12. Terrestrial Planets21 topic
  13. Absolute Configuration11 topic
  14. Chiroptical Spectroscopy11 topic
  15. On-Orbit Performance11 topic
  16. Radiometric Calibration11 topic

Where does J. S. Plaskett work?

J. S. Plaskett's main affiliation in the publication record is Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Canada.

How many publications and citations does J. S. Plaskett have?

Science Explorer counts 39 works and 77 citations for J. S. Plaskett, ranking #232,856 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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