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Researcher · The University of Adelaide · Australia

K. A. Thorne

K. A. Thorne publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

ORCID 0000-0002-7208-2311 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,651
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#123
of 140,210
Works
109
Citations
40k
Citations per work
369.9
h-index
63
i10-index 85Top 3.2% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
K. A. Thorne

What does K. A. Thorne research?

K. A. Thorne's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (83%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 107 works · 98.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 90 works · 82.9% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 77 works · 70.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 7 works · 6.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7 works · 6.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 works · 11.4% of their workOceanography: 8 works · 7.7% of their workGeophysics: 4 works · 3.7% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 3.7% of their workOcean Engineering: 4 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 2.0% of their workTHEIR WORKK. A. Thorne109works
Physical Sciences98%

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 Astronomy9082.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1211.4%
    3. Engineering43.7%
  2. Everything else22.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics70% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography8% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics4% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. A. Thorne's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Neutron Stars, Black Holes and X-Ray 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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gravitational Waves1542 topics
  2. Binary Black Hole1021 topic
  3. Neutron Star1021 topic
  4. Supernovae682 topics
  5. Gamma-Ray Bursts521 topic
  6. Neutron Stars521 topic
  7. Black Holes331 topic
  8. X-Ray Astronomy331 topic
  9. GRACE231 topic
  10. Sea Level Rise231 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters161 topic
  12. Dark Energy161 topic
  13. High-Energy Astrophysics131 topic
  14. Particle Acceleration131 topic
  15. Ring Laser Gyroscope111 topic
  16. Rotational Seismology111 topic
  17. Atomic Magnetometer71 topic
  18. Magnetic Resonance Imaging71 topic

Where does K. A. Thorne work?

K. A. Thorne's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Adelaide, Australia.

How many publications and citations does K. A. Thorne have?

OpenAlex counts 109 works and 40,321 citations for K. A. Thorne, an h-index of 63, ranking #4,651 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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