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Researcher · University of Leicester · United Kingdom

P. T. O’Brien

P. T. O’Brien publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

ORCID 0000-0002-5128-1899 OpenAlex
World rank
#48,412
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,575
of 90,785
Works
249
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
7.2

What does P. T. O’Brien research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 44.3%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 8.3%Computational Mechanics: 8.0%Instrumentation: 7.0%other fields: 32.4%44%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics44.3%Nuclear and High Energy Physics8.3%Computational Mechanics8.0%Instrumentation7.0%other fields32.4%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics44% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics8% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation7% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P. T. O’Brien's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Black Holes, X-Ray Astronomy and Astronomical Instrumentation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Gravitational Waves782 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts571 topic
  3. Supernovae571 topic
  4. Optical 3D Laser Measurement261 topic
  5. Position-Sensitive Detector261 topic
  6. Black Holes251 topic
  7. X-Ray Astronomy251 topic
  8. Astronomical Instrumentation231 topic
  9. Spectrograph231 topic
  10. Binary Black Hole211 topic
  11. Neutron Star211 topic
  12. High-Energy Astrophysics181 topic
  13. Particle Acceleration181 topic
  14. Catalysis121 topic
  15. Plasma121 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances91 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets91 topic

Where does P. T. O’Brien work?

P. T. O’Brien's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does P. T. O’Brien have?

Science Explorer counts 249 works and 1,788 citations for P. T. O’Brien, ranking #48,412 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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