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R. L. White

R. L. White publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

World rank
#102,020
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#44,560
of 358,040
Works
171
Citations
992
Citations per work
5.8

What does R. L. White research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 41.6%Instrumentation: 8.9%Computational Mechanics: 5.6%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 4.2%other fields: 39.7%42%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics41.6%Instrumentation8.9%Computational Mechanics5.6%Nuclear and High Energy Physics4.2%other fields39.7%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics42% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation9% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. L. White's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Spectrograph 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes312 topics
  2. Star Formation252 topics
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation191 topic
  4. Cosmology191 topic
  5. Exoplanets191 topic
  6. Galaxies191 topic
  7. Spectrograph191 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics191 topic
  9. Accretion Disks182 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields182 topics
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts141 topic
  12. Supernovae141 topic
  13. Event Horizon Telescope121 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement121 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector121 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy121 topic
  17. High-Energy Astrophysics81 topic
  18. Particle Acceleration81 topic
  19. Molecular Clouds61 topic
  20. Protoplanetary Disks61 topic

Where does R. L. White work?

R. L. White's main affiliation in the publication record is Space Telescope Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. L. White have?

Science Explorer counts 171 works and 992 citations for R. L. White, ranking #102,020 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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