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Researcher · Princeton University · United States

James E. Gunn

James E. Gunn publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

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World rank
#5,128
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,761
of 1,627,098
Works
537
Citations
136k
Citations per work
253.8
h-index
144
i10-index 312Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
James E. Gunn

What does James E. Gunn research?

James E. Gunn's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (74%), Engineering (7%).

Physical Sciences: 440 works · 81.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 400 works · 74.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 262 works · 48.8% of their workInstrumentation: 96 works · 17.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 23 works · 4.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 19 works · 3.6% of their workEngineering: 40 works · 7.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 23 works · 4.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 17 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 97 works · 18.1% of their workTHEIR WORKJames E. Gunn537works
Physical Sciences82%

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 Astronomy40074.5%
    2. Engineering407.4%
  2. Everything else9718.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics49% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation18% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James E. Gunn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Supernovae.

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. Black Holes2772 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation2671 topic
  3. Spectrograph2671 topic
  4. Cosmology2241 topic
  5. Galaxies2241 topic
  6. Exoplanets2011 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics2011 topic
  8. Supernovae1412 topics
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts1061 topic
  10. Neutron Stars1061 topic
  11. Adaptive Optics611 topic
  12. Wavefront Sensing611 topic
  13. Accretion Disks531 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement531 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector531 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy531 topic
  17. Cosmological Parameters351 topic
  18. Dark Energy351 topic

Where does James E. Gunn work?

James E. Gunn's main affiliation in the publication record is Princeton University, United States.

How many publications and citations does James E. Gunn have?

OpenAlex counts 537 works and 136,317 citations for James E. Gunn, an h-index of 144, ranking #5,128 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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