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Researcher · Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias · Spain

P. L. Hammersley

P. L. Hammersley publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#250,841
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Spain
#5,259
of 45,870
Works
41
Citations
104
Citations per work
2.5

What does P. L. Hammersley research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 30.8%Instrumentation: 23.1%Computational Mechanics: 12.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10.3%other fields: 23.0%31%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics30.8%Instrumentation23.1%Computational Mechanics12.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10.3%other fields23.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics31% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications3% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P. L. Hammersley's research?

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

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation91 topic
  2. Spectrograph91 topic
  3. Exoplanets81 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics81 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  7. Adaptive Optics41 topic
  8. Wavefront Sensing41 topic
  9. Radio Astronomy21 topic
  10. Transits of Venus21 topic
  11. GRACE11 topic
  12. IEEE 145111 topic
  13. Sea Level Rise11 topic
  14. Smart Sensors11 topic
  15. Spectroscopic Databases11 topic
  16. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers11 topic

Where does P. L. Hammersley work?

P. L. Hammersley's main affiliation in the publication record is Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain.

How many publications and citations does P. L. Hammersley have?

Science Explorer counts 41 works and 104 citations for P. L. Hammersley, ranking #250,841 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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