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Researcher · University of Virginia · United States

Michael F. Skrutskie

Michael F. Skrutskie publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

ORCID 0000-0001-8671-5901 OpenAlex
World rank
#18,147
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,630
of 358,040
Works
40
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
34.7

What does Michael F. Skrutskie research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 61.5%Instrumentation: 17.9%Computational Mechanics: 10.3%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 5.1%other fields: 5.2%62%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics61.5%Instrumentation17.9%Computational Mechanics10.3%Electrical and Electronic Engineering5.1%other fields5.2%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation18% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael F. Skrutskie's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector and Cosmology.

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. Exoplanets121 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics121 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  4. Spectrograph71 topic
  5. Star Formation62 topics
  6. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  7. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  8. Cosmology31 topic
  9. Galaxies31 topic
  10. Gamma-Ray Bursts31 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks31 topic
  13. Supernovae31 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets21 topic
  16. Infrared11 topic
  17. Small Target11 topic

Where does Michael F. Skrutskie work?

Michael F. Skrutskie's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Virginia, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael F. Skrutskie have?

Science Explorer counts 40 works and 1,386 citations for Michael F. Skrutskie, ranking #18,147 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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