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Researcher · Lowell Observatory · United States

O. G. Franz

O. G. Franz 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.

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World rank
#2,084,232
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#629,675
of 1,627,098
Works
288
Citations
5k
Citations per work
17.5
h-index
31
i10-index 63Top 16% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
O. G. Franz

What does O. G. Franz research?

O. G. Franz's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (64%), Engineering (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2%).

Physical Sciences: 247 works · 85.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 184 works · 64.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 128 works · 44.4% of their workInstrumentation: 38 works · 13.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 18 works · 6.3% of their workEngineering: 57 works · 19.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 37 works · 12.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 20 works · 6.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 1.8% of their workOceanography: 5 works · 1.8% of their workEverything else: 41 works · 14.4% of their workTHEIR WORKO. G. Franz288works
Physical Sciences86%

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 Astronomy18464.0%
    2. Engineering5719.8%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences51.8%
  2. Everything else4114.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics44% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation13% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe O. G. Franz's research?

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

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. Exoplanets1391 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics1391 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation1061 topic
  4. Spectrograph1061 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement1011 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector1011 topic
  7. Solar System Abundances791 topic
  8. Terrestrial Planets791 topic
  9. Adaptive Optics491 topic
  10. Wavefront Sensing491 topic
  11. Radio Astronomy371 topic
  12. Transits of Venus371 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds251 topic
  14. Star Formation251 topic
  15. Mars241 topic
  16. Martian Surface241 topic

Where does O. G. Franz work?

O. G. Franz's main affiliation in the publication record is Lowell Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does O. G. Franz have?

OpenAlex counts 288 works and 5,041 citations for O. G. Franz, an h-index of 31, ranking #2,084,232 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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