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Researcher · Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence · United States

Jill Tarter

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

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World rank
#37,230
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,262
of 358,040
Works
62
Citations
394
Citations per work
6.4

What does Jill Tarter research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 71.8%Instrumentation: 3.8%Political Science and International Relations: 3.8%Physiology: 3.8%other fields: 16.8%72%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics71.8%Instrumentation3.8%Political Science and International Relations3.8%Physiology3.8%other fields16.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics72% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation4% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  4. 4Physiology4% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% 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 Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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. Astrobiology191 topic
  2. Extraterrestrial Life191 topic
  3. Mars131 topic
  4. Martian Surface131 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances61 topic
  6. Terrestrial Planets61 topic
  7. Epoch of Reionization51 topic
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts51 topic
  9. Radio Astronomy51 topic
  10. Supernovae51 topic
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  12. Exoplanets31 topic
  13. Microgravity31 topic
  14. Spaceflight31 topic
  15. Spectrograph31 topic
  16. Stellar Astrophysics31 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?

Science Explorer counts 62 works and 394 citations for Jill Tarter, ranking #37,230 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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