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K. O’Brien

K. O’Brien publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

World rank
#398,284
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#34,408
of 90,785
Works
40
Citations
198
Citations per work
5.0

What does K. O’Brien research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 45.9%Instrumentation: 11.5%Computational Mechanics: 6.6%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 4.9%other fields: 31.1%46%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics45.9%Instrumentation11.5%Computational Mechanics6.6%Nuclear and High Energy Physics4.9%other fields31.1%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics5% of their works
  6. 6Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. O’Brien's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Black Holes, Spectrograph, X-Ray Astronomy, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Binary Black Hole and Gravitational Waves.

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. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  2. Black Holes71 topic
  3. Spectrograph71 topic
  4. X-Ray Astronomy71 topic
  5. Exoplanets61 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics61 topic
  7. Binary Black Hole51 topic
  8. Gravitational Waves51 topic
  9. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  10. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  11. Crystal Structure Prediction31 topic
  12. High-Energy Astrophysics31 topic
  13. Mantle Dynamics31 topic
  14. Particle Acceleration31 topic
  15. Superconducting Detectors31 topic
  16. Terahertz31 topic

Where does K. O’Brien work?

K. O’Brien's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does K. O’Brien have?

Science Explorer counts 40 works and 198 citations for K. O’Brien, ranking #398,284 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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