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R. Kirshner

R. Kirshner publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

World rank
#151,008
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#63,363
of 358,040
Works
312
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
5.2

What does R. Kirshner research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 63.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 11.5%Instrumentation: 11.0%Computational Mechanics: 4.1%other fields: 9.6%64%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics63.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics11.5%Instrumentation11.0%Computational Mechanics4.1%other fields9.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics64% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics12% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation11% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine1% of their works
  6. 6Radiation1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. Kirshner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration and Binary Black Hole.

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. Gravitational Waves1542 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts1311 topic
  3. Supernovae1311 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation401 topic
  5. Spectrograph401 topic
  6. High-Energy Astrophysics391 topic
  7. Particle Acceleration391 topic
  8. Binary Black Hole231 topic
  9. Exoplanets231 topic
  10. Neutron Star231 topic
  11. Stellar Astrophysics231 topic
  12. Black Holes191 topic
  13. X-Ray Astronomy191 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement151 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector151 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances111 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets111 topic

Where does R. Kirshner work?

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

How many publications and citations does R. Kirshner have?

Science Explorer counts 312 works and 1,625 citations for R. Kirshner, ranking #151,008 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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