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Knut Olsen

Knut Olsen publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

World rank
#185,865
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#75,935
of 358,040
Works
87
Citations
433
Citations per work
5.0

What does Knut Olsen research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 53.7%Instrumentation: 18.5%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 5.6%Computational Mechanics: 4.6%other fields: 17.6%54%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics53.7%Instrumentation18.5%Nuclear and High Energy Physics5.6%Computational Mechanics4.6%other fields17.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation18% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography2% of their works
  6. 6Management Information Systems2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Knut Olsen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Accretion Disks, Astronomical Instrumentation, Magnetic Fields, Spectrograph, Star Formation and Molecular Clouds.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets221 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics221 topic
  3. Accretion Disks202 topics
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation201 topic
  5. Magnetic Fields202 topics
  6. Spectrograph201 topic
  7. Star Formation182 topics
  8. Molecular Clouds141 topic
  9. Protoplanetary Disks141 topic
  10. Black Holes102 topics
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts81 topic
  12. Supernovae81 topic
  13. Event Horizon Telescope61 topic
  14. High-Energy Astrophysics61 topic
  15. Particle Acceleration61 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy61 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  19. Cosmology41 topic
  20. Galaxies41 topic

Where does Knut Olsen work?

Knut Olsen's main affiliation in the publication record is Kitt Peak National Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Knut Olsen have?

Science Explorer counts 87 works and 433 citations for Knut Olsen, ranking #185,865 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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