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Researcher · Lickenbrock · United States

Robert Grant Aitken

Robert Grant Aitken publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astro and Planetary Science and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,148,799
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#897,071
of 1,627,098
Works
423
Citations
820
Citations per work
1.9
h-index
11
i10-index 16Top 52% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Robert Grant Aitken

What does Robert Grant Aitken research?

Robert Grant Aitken's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (57%), Engineering (4%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Physical Sciences: 258 works · 61.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 241 works · 56.9% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 220 works · 52.1% of their workInstrumentation: 11 works · 2.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 works · 2.2% of their workEngineering: 18 works · 4.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 18 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 143 works · 33.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 5.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 2.6% of their workArcheology: 11 works · 2.6% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 works · 2.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 works · 2.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert GrantAitken423works
Physical Sciences61%Social Sciences5%

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 Astronomy24156.9%
    2. Engineering184.2%
  2. Everything else14333.9%
    1. Arts and Humanities112.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance102.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation3% of their works
  4. 4Archeology3% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Grant Aitken's research?

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

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. Radio Astronomy1881 topic
  2. Transits of Venus1881 topic
  3. Solar System Abundances1051 topic
  4. Terrestrial Planets1051 topic
  5. Historical Astronomy912 topics
  6. Antikythera Mechanism781 topic
  7. Astronomical Calculator781 topic
  8. Exoplanets731 topic
  9. Stellar Astrophysics731 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement371 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector371 topic
  12. Astronomical Instrumentation251 topic
  13. Mars251 topic
  14. Martian Surface251 topic
  15. Spectrograph251 topic
  16. Archaeoastronomy131 topic
  17. Cultural Landscapes131 topic

Where does Robert Grant Aitken work?

Robert Grant Aitken's main affiliation in the publication record is Lickenbrock, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert Grant Aitken have?

OpenAlex counts 423 works and 820 citations for Robert Grant Aitken, an h-index of 11, ranking #3,148,799 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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