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Researcher · Optica · United States

Michael Merrill

Michael Merrill publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Instrumentation, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

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World rank
#4,819,855
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,261,701
of 1,627,098
Works
24
Citations
467
Citations per work
19.5
h-index
7
i10-index 7Top 73% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Michael Merrill

What does Michael Merrill research?

Michael Merrill's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (66%), Engineering (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 21 works · 88.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 16 works · 65.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 10 works · 41.0% of their workInstrumentation: 3 works · 13.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 works · 11.5% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 19.7% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 13.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 6.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 3.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 11.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael Merrill24works
Physical Sciences89%

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 Astronomy1665.6%
    2. Engineering519.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.3%
  2. Everything else311.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics41% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering13% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation13% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics12% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Merrill's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Stellar Astrophysics, Supernovae, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Sensing.

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. Astronomical Instrumentation81 topic
  2. Spectrograph81 topic
  3. Exoplanets71 topic
  4. Gamma-Ray Bursts71 topic
  5. Stellar Astrophysics71 topic
  6. Supernovae71 topic
  7. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  8. Wavefront Sensing51 topic
  9. Infrared Detectors31 topic
  10. Mars31 topic
  11. Martian Surface31 topic
  12. Semiconductor Materials31 topic
  13. Data Assimilation21 topic
  14. Ensemble Kalman Filter21 topic
  15. Optical Interconnects21 topic
  16. Semiconductor Lasers21 topic

Where does Michael Merrill work?

Michael Merrill's main affiliation in the publication record is Optica, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael Merrill have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 467 citations for Michael Merrill, an h-index of 7, ranking #4,819,855 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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