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Ken Young

Ken Young publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology.

World rank
#133,137
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#56,609
of 358,040
Works
24
Citations
314
Citations per work
13.1

What does Ken Young research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 50.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 11.1%Spectroscopy: 8.3%Dermatology: 5.6%other fields: 25.0%50%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics50.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics11.1%Spectroscopy8.3%Dermatology5.6%other fields25.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics11% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy8% of their works
  4. 4Dermatology6% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Young's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Epoch of Reionization, Exoplanets, High-Energy Astrophysics, Molecular Clouds, Particle Acceleration and Radio 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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Accretion Disks72 topics
  2. Magnetic Fields72 topics
  3. Epoch of Reionization41 topic
  4. Exoplanets41 topic
  5. High-Energy Astrophysics41 topic
  6. Molecular Clouds41 topic
  7. Particle Acceleration41 topic
  8. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  9. Star Formation41 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics41 topic
  11. Black Holes31 topic
  12. Molecular Structure31 topic
  13. Rotational Spectroscopy31 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy31 topic
  15. Astronomical Instrumentation21 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  17. Spectrograph21 topic
  18. Terrestrial Planets21 topic

Where does Ken Young work?

Ken Young's main affiliation in the publication record is Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ken Young have?

Science Explorer counts 24 works and 314 citations for Ken Young, ranking #133,137 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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