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Researcher · Dudley Observatory · United States

Lewis Boss

Lewis Boss publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, History and Developments in Astronomy and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

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World rank
#3,851,354
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,058,306
of 1,627,098
Works
166
Citations
143
Citations per work
0.9
h-index
4
i10-index 4Top 90% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lewis Boss

What does Lewis Boss research?

Lewis Boss's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (53%), Engineering (8%), Chemistry (5%).

Physical Sciences: 114 works · 68.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 88 works · 53.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 76 works · 46.0% of their workInstrumentation: 6 works · 3.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 6 works · 3.4% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 7.6% of their workComputational Mechanics: 13 works · 7.6% of their workChemistry: 8 works · 4.6% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 8 works · 4.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 3.4% of their workOceanography: 6 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 31.3% of their workTHEIR WORKLewis Boss166works
Physical Sciences69%

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 Astronomy8853.1%
    2. Engineering137.6%
    3. Chemistry84.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences63.4%
  2. Everything else5231.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  3. 3Physical and Theoretical Chemistry5% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation4% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography3% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lewis Boss's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar System Abundances661 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets661 topic
  3. Radio Astronomy361 topic
  4. Transits of Venus361 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement241 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector241 topic
  7. Exoplanets161 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics161 topic
  9. Partially Ordered Sets151 topic
  10. Periodic Table151 topic
  11. Antikythera Mechanism141 topic
  12. Astronomical Calculator141 topic
  13. Astronomical Instrumentation121 topic
  14. Spectrograph121 topic
  15. GRACE111 topic
  16. Sea Level Rise111 topic

Where does Lewis Boss work?

Lewis Boss's main affiliation in the publication record is Dudley Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Lewis Boss have?

OpenAlex counts 166 works and 143 citations for Lewis Boss, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,851,354 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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