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Researcher · Marshall Space Flight Center · United States

R. B. Wilson

R. B. Wilson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radiation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,894,640
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,565,524
of 1,627,098
Works
66
Citations
524
Citations per work
7.9
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 79% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
R. B. Wilson

What does R. B. Wilson research?

R. B. Wilson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (65%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 48 works · 73.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 43 works · 64.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 32 works · 47.9% of their workRadiation: 4 works · 6.6% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 works · 6.0% of their workInstrumentation: 3 works · 4.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 4.2% of their workOceanography: 3 works · 4.2% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 4.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 3 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 26.9% of their workTHEIR WORKR. B. Wilson66works
Physical Sciences73%

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 Astronomy4364.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences34.2%
    3. Engineering34.2%
  2. Everything else1826.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics48% of their works
  2. 2Radiation7% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. B. Wilson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Black Holes, X-Ray Astronomy, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star and Neutron Imaging.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Gravitational Waves452 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts341 topic
  3. Supernovae341 topic
  4. Black Holes151 topic
  5. X-Ray Astronomy151 topic
  6. Binary Black Hole111 topic
  7. Neutron Star111 topic
  8. Neutron Imaging91 topic
  9. Small-Angle Scattering91 topic
  10. Solar System Abundances81 topic
  11. Terrestrial Planets81 topic
  12. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  13. GRACE71 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement71 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector71 topic
  16. Sea Level Rise71 topic
  17. Spectrograph71 topic

Where does R. B. Wilson work?

R. B. Wilson's main affiliation in the publication record is Marshall Space Flight Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. B. Wilson have?

OpenAlex counts 66 works and 524 citations for R. B. Wilson, an h-index of 6, ranking #6,894,640 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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