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Researcher · South African Radio Astronomy Observatory · South Africa

P. A. Whitelock

P. A. Whitelock publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-4678-4432 OpenAlex
World rank
#711,591
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,316
of 5,570
Works
100
Citations
219
Citations per work
2.2

What does P. A. Whitelock research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 56.8%Instrumentation: 15.9%Computational Mechanics: 9.1%Aerospace Engineering: 3.8%other fields: 14.4%57%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics56.8%Instrumentation15.9%Computational Mechanics9.1%Aerospace Engineering3.8%other fields14.4%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation16% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P. A. Whitelock's research?

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

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets331 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics331 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation211 topic
  4. Spectrograph211 topic
  5. Molecular Clouds161 topic
  6. Star Formation161 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement121 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector121 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts71 topic
  10. Supernovae71 topic
  11. Radio Astronomy61 topic
  12. Transits of Venus61 topic
  13. Solar System Abundances51 topic
  14. Terrestrial Planets51 topic
  15. On-Orbit Performance41 topic
  16. Radiometric Calibration41 topic

Where does P. A. Whitelock work?

P. A. Whitelock's main affiliation in the publication record is South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does P. A. Whitelock have?

Science Explorer counts 100 works and 219 citations for P. A. Whitelock, ranking #711,591 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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