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Researcher · Space Telescope Science Institute · United States

Kirsten L. Larson

Kirsten L. Larson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-3917-6460 OpenAlex
World rank
#24,390
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,058
of 1,627,098
Works
207
Citations
5.7k
Citations per work
27.5
h-index
38
i10-index 88Top 11% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kirsten L. Larson

What does Kirsten L. Larson research?

Kirsten L. Larson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (80%), Chemistry (4%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 182 works · 87.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 167 works · 80.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 124 works · 59.7% of their workInstrumentation: 32 works · 15.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 works · 2.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 6 works · 2.7% of their workChemistry: 8 works · 4.1% of their workSpectroscopy: 8 works · 4.1% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 3.1% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 12.3% of their workTHEIR WORKKirsten L. Larson207works
Physical Sciences88%

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 Astronomy16780.5%
    2. Chemistry84.1%
    3. Engineering63.1%
  2. Everything else2512.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics60% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation15% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy4% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kirsten L. Larson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Black Holes, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Cosmology and Galaxies.

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 Formation1842 topics
  2. Exoplanets1111 topic
  3. Stellar Astrophysics1111 topic
  4. Black Holes1072 topics
  5. Accretion Disks1032 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields1032 topics
  7. Cosmology941 topic
  8. Galaxies941 topic
  9. Molecular Clouds901 topic
  10. Protoplanetary Disks901 topic
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation891 topic
  12. Spectrograph891 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts281 topic
  14. Supernovae281 topic
  15. Spectroscopic Databases241 topic
  16. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers241 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement181 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector181 topic
  19. Event Horizon Telescope131 topic
  20. X-Ray Astronomy131 topic

Where does Kirsten L. Larson work?

Kirsten L. Larson's main affiliation in the publication record is Space Telescope Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kirsten L. Larson have?

OpenAlex counts 207 works and 5,691 citations for Kirsten L. Larson, an h-index of 38, ranking #24,390 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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