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Researcher · American Association of Variable Star Observers · United States

Margaret Walton Mayall

Margaret Walton Mayall publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Archeology, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

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World rank
#7,000,949
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,574,817
of 1,627,098
Works
96
Citations
61
Citations per work
0.6
h-index
4
i10-index 1Top 90% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Margaret Walton Mayall

What does Margaret Walton Mayall research?

Margaret Walton Mayall's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (50%), Engineering (14%), Arts and Humanities (7%).

Physical Sciences: 61 works · 63.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 48 works · 50.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 42 works · 44.1% of their workInstrumentation: 4 works · 3.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 2.0% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 13.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 13 works · 13.7% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 28.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 7.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 7.4% of their workArcheology: 6 works · 5.9% of their workPhilosophy: 1 works · 1.5% of their workTHEIR WORKMargaret WaltonMayall96works
Physical Sciences64%Social Sciences7%

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 Astronomy4850.0%
    2. Engineering1313.7%
  2. Everything else2828.9%
    1. Arts and Humanities77.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics44% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics14% of their works
  3. 3Archeology6% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Margaret Walton Mayall's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Historical Astronomy, Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Antikythera Mechanism.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Historical Astronomy322 topics
  2. Radio Astronomy311 topic
  3. Transits of Venus311 topic
  4. Optical 3D Laser Measurement281 topic
  5. Position-Sensitive Detector281 topic
  6. Exoplanets261 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics261 topic
  8. Antikythera Mechanism221 topic
  9. Astronomical Calculator221 topic
  10. Archaeoastronomy101 topic
  11. Cultural Landscapes101 topic
  12. Astronomical Instrumentation81 topic
  13. Spectrograph81 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances51 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets51 topic
  16. Adaptive Optics31 topic
  17. Wavefront Sensing31 topic

Where does Margaret Walton Mayall work?

Margaret Walton Mayall's main affiliation in the publication record is American Association of Variable Star Observers, United States.

How many publications and citations does Margaret Walton Mayall have?

OpenAlex counts 96 works and 61 citations for Margaret Walton Mayall, an h-index of 4, ranking #7,000,949 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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