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Researcher · California Institute of Technology · United States

R. D. Blandford

R. D. Blandford publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0002-1854-5506 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,587
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#701
of 358,040
Works
204
Citations
4.8k
Citations per work
23.5

What does R. D. Blandford research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 52.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 20.9%Instrumentation: 4.6%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4.0%other fields: 18.5%52%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics52.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics20.9%Instrumentation4.6%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4.0%other fields18.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics21% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation5% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  6. 6Radiation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. D. Blandford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration, Gravitational Waves, Accretion Disks, X-Ray Astronomy, Cosmology and Galaxies.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes512 topics
  2. High-Energy Astrophysics381 topic
  3. Particle Acceleration381 topic
  4. Gravitational Waves372 topics
  5. Accretion Disks321 topic
  6. X-Ray Astronomy321 topic
  7. Cosmology191 topic
  8. Galaxies191 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts191 topic
  10. Supernovae191 topic
  11. Binary Black Hole181 topic
  12. Neutron Star181 topic
  13. Epoch of Reionization161 topic
  14. Radio Astronomy161 topic
  15. Astronomical Instrumentation141 topic
  16. Spectrograph141 topic
  17. Coronal Mass Ejections121 topic
  18. Solar Dynamics Observatory121 topic

Where does R. D. Blandford work?

R. D. Blandford's main affiliation in the publication record is California Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. D. Blandford have?

Science Explorer counts 204 works and 4,788 citations for R. D. Blandford, ranking #1,587 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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