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Researcher · Mitchell Institute · United States

Leo Y. Alcorn

Leo Y. Alcorn publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2250-8687 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,216,110
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#664,315
of 1,627,098
Works
31
Citations
585
Citations per work
18.9
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 49% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Leo Y. Alcorn

What does Leo Y. Alcorn research?

Leo Y. Alcorn's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (83%), Engineering (4%), Environmental Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 28 works · 90.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 26 works · 82.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 17 works · 53.8% of their workInstrumentation: 7 works · 22.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 3.2% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 works · 3.2% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 4.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 4.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 3.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 9.7% of their workTHEIR WORKLeo Y. Alcorn31works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy2682.8%
    2. Engineering14.3%
    3. Environmental Science13.2%
  2. Everything else39.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leo Y. Alcorn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation292 topics
  2. Cosmology231 topic
  3. Galaxies231 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation201 topic
  5. Spectrograph201 topic
  6. Exoplanets91 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts71 topic
  9. Supernovae71 topic
  10. Molecular Clouds61 topic
  11. Protoplanetary Disks61 topic
  12. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  13. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  14. Adaptive Optics31 topic
  15. Drought31 topic
  16. Tree Mortality31 topic
  17. Wavefront Sensing31 topic

Where does Leo Y. Alcorn work?

Leo Y. Alcorn's main affiliation in the publication record is Mitchell Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Leo Y. Alcorn have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 585 citations for Leo Y. Alcorn, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,216,110 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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