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Researcher · University of Massachusetts Amherst · United States

Katherine E. Whitaker

Katherine E. Whitaker publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-7160-3632 OpenAlex
World rank
#20,669
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,529
of 1,627,098
Works
408
Citations
15k
Citations per work
35.6
h-index
62
i10-index 165Top 3.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Katherine E. Whitaker

What does Katherine E. Whitaker research?

Katherine E. Whitaker's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (80%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 344 works · 84.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 328 works · 80.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 212 works · 52.0% of their workInstrumentation: 96 works · 23.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 11 works · 2.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 works · 2.3% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 3.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 9 works · 2.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 64 works · 15.8% of their workTHEIR WORKKatherine E.Whitaker408works
Physical Sciences84%

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 Astronomy32880.5%
    2. Engineering153.7%
  2. Everything else6415.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation24% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Katherine E. Whitaker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets and Stellar 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. 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation3212 topics
  2. Black Holes2992 topics
  3. Cosmology2601 topic
  4. Galaxies2601 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation2591 topic
  6. Spectrograph2591 topic
  7. Exoplanets1111 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics1111 topic
  9. Accretion Disks1002 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields1002 topics
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts731 topic
  12. Supernovae731 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds611 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks611 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope391 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy391 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement231 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector231 topic
  19. Adaptive Optics211 topic
  20. Wavefront Sensing211 topic

Where does Katherine E. Whitaker work?

Katherine E. Whitaker's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States.

How many publications and citations does Katherine E. Whitaker have?

OpenAlex counts 408 works and 14,516 citations for Katherine E. Whitaker, an h-index of 62, ranking #20,669 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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