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Patrick Petitjean

Patrick Petitjean publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

World rank
#32,159
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#1,793
of 96,116
Works
87
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
12.7

What does Patrick Petitjean research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 56.7%Instrumentation: 14.9%History and Philosophy of Science: 6.7%Political Science and International Relations: 3.7%other fields: 18.0%57%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics56.7%Instrumentation14.9%History and Philosophy of Science6.7%Political Science and International Relations3.7%other fields18.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation15% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science7% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick Petitjean's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, 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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation362 topics
  2. Black Holes292 topics
  3. Cosmology241 topic
  4. Galaxies241 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation201 topic
  6. Spectrograph201 topic
  7. Accretion Disks172 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields172 topics
  9. Supernovae142 topics
  10. Exoplanets121 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds121 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks121 topic
  13. Stellar Astrophysics121 topic
  14. Cosmological Parameters81 topic
  15. Dark Energy81 topic
  16. Gamma-Ray Bursts61 topic
  17. Neutron Stars61 topic
  18. Epoch of Reionization51 topic
  19. Event Horizon Telescope51 topic
  20. Radio Astronomy51 topic
  21. X-Ray Astronomy51 topic

Where does Patrick Petitjean work?

Patrick Petitjean's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France.

How many publications and citations does Patrick Petitjean have?

Science Explorer counts 87 works and 1,105 citations for Patrick Petitjean, ranking #32,159 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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