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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

Paul W. Merrill

Paul W. 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.

OpenAlex
World rank
#901,095
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#247,153
of 358,040
Works
92
Citations
100
Citations per work
1.1

What does Paul W. Merrill research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 40.7%Instrumentation: 11.5%Computational Mechanics: 8.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 3.5%other fields: 35.5%41%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics40.7%Instrumentation11.5%Computational Mechanics8.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics3.5%other fields35.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics41% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul W. 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.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets171 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics171 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation131 topic
  4. Spectrograph131 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement101 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector101 topic
  7. Radio Astronomy81 topic
  8. Transits of Venus81 topic
  9. Solar System Abundances61 topic
  10. Terrestrial Planets61 topic
  11. Coronal Mass Ejections51 topic
  12. Solar Dynamics Observatory51 topic
  13. Antikythera Mechanism31 topic
  14. Astronomical Calculator31 topic
  15. Spectroscopic Databases21 topic
  16. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers21 topic

Where does Paul W. Merrill work?

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

How many publications and citations does Paul W. Merrill have?

Science Explorer counts 92 works and 100 citations for Paul W. Merrill, ranking #901,095 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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