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Researcher · Ellinbank Observatory · Australia

Peter Nelson

Peter Nelson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,820,144
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#97,302
of 140,210
Works
66
Citations
869
Citations per work
13.2
h-index
18
i10-index 27Top 32% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Peter Nelson

What does Peter Nelson research?

Peter Nelson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (76%), Engineering (14%).

Physical Sciences: 59 works · 90.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 50 works · 75.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 43 works · 65.4% of their workInstrumentation: 5 works · 7.0% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 works · 3.2% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 14.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 8.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 3.2% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 9.9% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter Nelson66works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy5075.6%
    2. Engineering1014.5%
  2. Everything else79.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics65% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation7% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Nelson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, X-Ray Astronomy, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae and Exoplanets.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Accretion Disks392 topics
  2. Magnetic Fields392 topics
  3. Gravitational Waves332 topics
  4. Black Holes321 topic
  5. X-Ray Astronomy321 topic
  6. Gamma-Ray Bursts241 topic
  7. Supernovae241 topic
  8. Exoplanets211 topic
  9. Stellar Astrophysics211 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement161 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector161 topic
  12. Solar System Abundances161 topic
  13. Terrestrial Planets161 topic
  14. Astronomical Instrumentation131 topic
  15. Spectrograph131 topic
  16. Binary Black Hole91 topic
  17. Neutron Star91 topic
  18. Molecular Clouds71 topic
  19. Star Formation71 topic

Where does Peter Nelson work?

Peter Nelson's main affiliation in the publication record is Ellinbank Observatory, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Peter Nelson have?

OpenAlex counts 66 works and 869 citations for Peter Nelson, an h-index of 18, ranking #3,820,144 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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