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Researcher · Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics · Canada

Kevin B. Alton

Kevin B. Alton publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Instrumentation, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astro and Planetary Science and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-2861-4800 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,609,848
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#38,623
of 38,960
Works
18
Citations
9
Citations per work
0.5

What does Kevin B. Alton research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 55.2%Aerospace Engineering: 10.3%Instrumentation: 10.3%Computational Mechanics: 6.9%other fields: 17.3%55%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics55.2%Aerospace Engineering10.3%Instrumentation10.3%Computational Mechanics6.9%other fields17.3%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics55% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering10% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation10% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kevin B. Alton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, CMOS Image Sensors and High-Speed Imaging.

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. Exoplanets61 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics61 topic
  3. Solar System Abundances41 topic
  4. Terrestrial Planets41 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  6. Spectrograph31 topic
  7. CMOS Image Sensors21 topic
  8. High-Speed Imaging21 topic
  9. Mars21 topic
  10. Martian Surface21 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  12. Optical 3D Laser Measurement21 topic
  13. Position-Sensitive Detector21 topic
  14. Star Formation21 topic
  15. Feature Matching11 topic
  16. Local Descriptors11 topic

Where does Kevin B. Alton work?

Kevin B. Alton's main affiliation in the publication record is Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Kevin B. Alton have?

Science Explorer counts 18 works and 9 citations for Kevin B. Alton, ranking #1,609,848 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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