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Researcher · Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence · United States

Jill Tarter

Jill Tarter publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life, Planetary Science and Exploration and Astro and Planetary Science.

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World rank
#2,833,572
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#820,673
of 1,627,098
Works
253
Citations
11k
Citations per work
44.0
h-index
28
i10-index 47Top 18% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jill Tarter

What does Jill Tarter research?

Jill Tarter's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (80%), Engineering (3%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (1%).

Physical Sciences: 215 works · 84.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 203 works · 80.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 186 works · 73.7% of their workInstrumentation: 12 works · 4.8% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 works · 1.6% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 3.4% of their workAerospace Engineering: 5 works · 2.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 1.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 1.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 4 works · 1.4% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 15.1% of their workTHEIR WORKJill Tarter253works
Physical Sciences85%

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 Astronomy20380.1%
    2. Engineering93.4%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences41.4%
  2. Everything else3815.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics74% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation5% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science1% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jill Tarter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astrobiology, Extraterrestrial Life, Mars, Martian Surface, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Epoch of Reionization and Radio Astronomy.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Astrobiology1381 topic
  2. Extraterrestrial Life1381 topic
  3. Mars821 topic
  4. Martian Surface821 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances481 topic
  6. Terrestrial Planets481 topic
  7. Epoch of Reionization451 topic
  8. Radio Astronomy451 topic
  9. Space Policy431 topic
  10. Space Tourism431 topic
  11. Exoplanets391 topic
  12. Stellar Astrophysics391 topic
  13. Astronomical Instrumentation301 topic
  14. Spectrograph301 topic
  15. Gamma-Ray Bursts261 topic
  16. Supernovae261 topic

Where does Jill Tarter work?

Jill Tarter's main affiliation in the publication record is Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jill Tarter have?

OpenAlex counts 253 works and 11,127 citations for Jill Tarter, an h-index of 28, ranking #2,833,572 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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