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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

Paul Willard Merrill

Paul Willard Merrill 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
#1,723,788
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#532,277
of 1,627,098
Works
380
Citations
2.2k
Citations per work
5.9
h-index
21
i10-index 50Top 27% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Paul Willard Merrill

What does Paul Willard Merrill research?

Paul Willard Merrill's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (63%), Engineering (14%).

Physical Sciences: 291 works · 76.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 238 works · 62.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 174 works · 45.7% of their workInstrumentation: 49 works · 12.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8 works · 2.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 7 works · 1.9% of their workEngineering: 52 works · 13.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 45 works · 11.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 7 works · 1.9% of their workEverything else: 89 works · 23.5% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul WillardMerrill380works
Physical Sciences76%

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 Astronomy23862.7%
    2. Engineering5213.8%
  2. Everything else8923.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation13% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics12% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Willard Merrill's research?

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

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. Exoplanets1751 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics1751 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation1191 topic
  4. Spectrograph1191 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement1081 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector1081 topic
  7. Radio Astronomy1031 topic
  8. Transits of Venus1031 topic
  9. Solar System Abundances401 topic
  10. Terrestrial Planets401 topic
  11. Antikythera Mechanism341 topic
  12. Astronomical Calculator341 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds231 topic
  14. Star Formation231 topic
  15. Coronal Mass Ejections151 topic
  16. Solar Dynamics Observatory151 topic

Where does Paul Willard Merrill work?

Paul Willard Merrill's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Wilson Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Paul Willard Merrill have?

OpenAlex counts 380 works and 2,232 citations for Paul Willard Merrill, an h-index of 21, ranking #1,723,788 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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