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Researcher · Goddard Space Flight Center · United States

John Mather

John Mather publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Spacecraft Design and Technology and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#44,998
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#20,737
of 358,040
Works
30
Citations
755
Citations per work
25.2

What does John Mather research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 39.5%Instrumentation: 18.4%Aerospace Engineering: 13.2%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 10.5%other fields: 18.4%40%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics39.5%Instrumentation18.4%Aerospace Engineering13.2%Nuclear and High Energy Physics10.5%other fields18.4%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics40% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation18% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics10% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Mather's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Cosmology, CubeSat, Exoplanets, Galaxies and High-Energy Astrophysics.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  2. Spectrograph71 topic
  3. Star Formation52 topics
  4. Cosmology31 topic
  5. CubeSat31 topic
  6. Exoplanets31 topic
  7. Galaxies31 topic
  8. High-Energy Astrophysics31 topic
  9. Particle Acceleration31 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics31 topic
  11. small satellite31 topic
  12. Epoch of Reionization21 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks21 topic
  15. Radio Astronomy21 topic
  16. On-Orbit Performance11 topic
  17. Radiometric Calibration11 topic

Where does John Mather work?

John Mather's main affiliation in the publication record is Goddard Space Flight Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Mather have?

Science Explorer counts 30 works and 755 citations for John Mather, ranking #44,998 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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