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Researcher · Mitchell Institute · United States

Michael T. Smitka

Michael T. Smitka publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,080,599
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,108,523
of 1,627,098
Works
16
Citations
181
Citations per work
11.3
h-index
4
i10-index 4Top 90% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Michael T. Smitka

What does Michael T. Smitka research?

Michael T. Smitka's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (86%), Engineering (14%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 100.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 works · 86.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 10 works · 60.5% of their workInstrumentation: 4 works · 23.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 works · 2.3% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 13.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 9.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 0 works · 2.3% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael T. Smitka16works
Physical Sciences100%

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 Astronomy1486.1%
    2. Engineering213.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics60% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering2% of their works
  5. 5Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael T. Smitka's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation101 topic
  2. Spectrograph101 topic
  3. Gamma-Ray Bursts81 topic
  4. Supernovae81 topic
  5. Exoplanets71 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics71 topic
  7. Accretion Disks52 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields52 topics
  9. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  10. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  11. Solar System Abundances41 topic
  12. Terrestrial Planets41 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  14. Star Formation31 topic
  15. Black Holes21 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy21 topic
  17. Dual-Energy CT11 topic
  18. Material Differentiation11 topic

Where does Michael T. Smitka work?

Michael T. Smitka's main affiliation in the publication record is Mitchell Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael T. Smitka have?

OpenAlex counts 16 works and 181 citations for Michael T. Smitka, an h-index of 4, ranking #4,080,599 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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