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Researcher · Lickenbrock · United States

R. G. Aitken

R. G. Aitken publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Archeology, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Historical Astronomy and Related Studies and Astro and Planetary Science.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,196,858
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#295,293
of 358,040
Works
115
Citations
26
Citations per work
0.2

What does R. G. Aitken research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 49.6%Computational Mechanics: 6.0%Archeology: 5.1%Instrumentation: 5.1%other fields: 34.2%50%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics49.6%Computational Mechanics6.0%Archeology5.1%Instrumentation5.1%other fields34.2%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  3. 3Archeology5% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation5% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics3% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. G. Aitken's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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 Astronomy221 topic
  2. Transits of Venus221 topic
  3. Antikythera Mechanism121 topic
  4. Astronomical Calculator121 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances111 topic
  6. Terrestrial Planets111 topic
  7. Exoplanets101 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics101 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation61 topic
  10. Spectrograph61 topic
  11. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  12. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  13. Mars31 topic
  14. Martian Surface31 topic
  15. Mass Measurements31 topic
  16. Nuclear Masses31 topic

Where does R. G. Aitken work?

R. G. Aitken's main affiliation in the publication record is Lickenbrock, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. G. Aitken have?

Science Explorer counts 115 works and 26 citations for R. G. Aitken, ranking #1,196,858 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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