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R. A. Schommer

R. A. Schommer publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

World rank
#30,988
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Chile
#22
of 3,393
Works
54
Citations
701
Citations per work
13.0

What does R. A. Schommer research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 60.0%Instrumentation: 20.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 8.6%Computational Mechanics: 2.9%other fields: 8.5%60%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics60.0%Instrumentation20.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics8.6%Computational Mechanics2.9%other fields8.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics60% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation20% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics9% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography1% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. A. Schommer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Exoplanets, Spectrograph, Stellar Astrophysics, Star Formation, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae and Black Holes.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation141 topic
  2. Exoplanets141 topic
  3. Spectrograph141 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics141 topic
  5. Star Formation112 topics
  6. Gamma-Ray Bursts101 topic
  7. Supernovae101 topic
  8. Black Holes82 topics
  9. Accretion Disks72 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields72 topics
  11. Cosmology61 topic
  12. Galaxies61 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds51 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks51 topic
  15. High-Energy Astrophysics41 topic
  16. Particle Acceleration41 topic
  17. Event Horizon Telescope21 topic
  18. Optical 3D Laser Measurement21 topic
  19. Position-Sensitive Detector21 topic
  20. X-Ray Astronomy21 topic

Where does R. A. Schommer work?

R. A. Schommer's main affiliation in the publication record is Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile.

How many publications and citations does R. A. Schommer have?

Science Explorer counts 54 works and 701 citations for R. A. Schommer, ranking #30,988 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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