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Researcher · United States Naval Observatory · United States

James L. Hilton

James L. Hilton publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Astro and Planetary Science.

ORCID 0000-0001-9431-4331 OpenAlex
World rank
#306,308
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#114,991
of 358,040
Works
27
Citations
82
Citations per work
3.0

What does James L. Hilton research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 51.6%Computational Mechanics: 9.7%Instrumentation: 6.5%Atmospheric Science: 3.2%other fields: 29.0%52%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics51.6%Computational Mechanics9.7%Instrumentation6.5%Atmospheric Science3.2%other fields29.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation6% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science3% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems3% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James L. Hilton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Solar System Abundances and Terrestrial Planets.

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. Exoplanets41 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics41 topic
  3. Antikythera Mechanism31 topic
  4. Astronomical Calculator31 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  7. Solar System Abundances31 topic
  8. Terrestrial Planets31 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation21 topic
  10. Mars21 topic
  11. Martian Surface21 topic
  12. Radio Astronomy21 topic
  13. Spectrograph21 topic
  14. Transits of Venus21 topic
  15. Academic Libraries11 topic
  16. Web 2.011 topic

Where does James L. Hilton work?

James L. Hilton's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Naval Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does James L. Hilton have?

Science Explorer counts 27 works and 82 citations for James L. Hilton, ranking #306,308 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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