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Researcher · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian · United States

R. Giacconi

R. Giacconi publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#58,557
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#26,645
of 358,040
Works
121
Citations
830
Citations per work
6.9

What does R. Giacconi research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 43.1%Computational Mechanics: 13.1%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 11.9%Instrumentation: 10.0%other fields: 21.9%43%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics43.1%Computational Mechanics13.1%Nuclear and High Energy Physics11.9%Instrumentation10.0%other fields21.9%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics43% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics12% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation10% of their works
  5. 5Radiation6% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. Giacconi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Accretion Disks, X-Ray Astronomy, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph and High-Energy 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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes332 topics
  2. Accretion Disks241 topic
  3. X-Ray Astronomy241 topic
  4. Optical 3D Laser Measurement211 topic
  5. Position-Sensitive Detector211 topic
  6. Astronomical Instrumentation161 topic
  7. Spectrograph161 topic
  8. High-Energy Astrophysics121 topic
  9. Particle Acceleration121 topic
  10. Cosmology91 topic
  11. Galaxies91 topic
  12. Exoplanets61 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts61 topic
  14. Stellar Astrophysics61 topic
  15. Supernovae61 topic
  16. Radio Astronomy51 topic
  17. Transits of Venus51 topic

Where does R. Giacconi work?

R. Giacconi's main affiliation in the publication record is Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. Giacconi have?

Science Explorer counts 121 works and 830 citations for R. Giacconi, ranking #58,557 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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