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Researcher · Swarthmore College · United States

Peter van de Kamp

Peter van de Kamp publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Historical Astronomy and Related Studies and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,078,467
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#276,793
of 358,040
Works
88
Citations
47
Citations per work
0.5

What does Peter van de Kamp research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 44.3%Instrumentation: 7.5%Aerospace Engineering: 7.5%Computational Mechanics: 7.5%other fields: 33.2%44%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics44.3%Instrumentation7.5%Aerospace Engineering7.5%Computational Mechanics7.5%other fields33.2%

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. 2Instrumentation8% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter van de Kamp's research?

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

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. Radio Astronomy171 topic
  2. Transits of Venus171 topic
  3. Antikythera Mechanism91 topic
  4. Astronomical Calculator91 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation81 topic
  6. Exoplanets81 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement81 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector81 topic
  9. Spectrograph81 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics81 topic
  11. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  12. GRACE51 topic
  13. Sea Level Rise51 topic
  14. Wavefront Sensing51 topic
  15. Mars41 topic
  16. Martian Surface41 topic

Where does Peter van de Kamp work?

Peter van de Kamp's main affiliation in the publication record is Swarthmore College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter van de Kamp have?

Science Explorer counts 88 works and 47 citations for Peter van de Kamp, ranking #1,078,467 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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