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Researcher · University of Washington · United States

R. R. Gibson

R. R. Gibson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

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World rank
#1,019,495
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#332,170
of 1,627,098
Works
63
Citations
3k
Citations per work
47.5
h-index
24
i10-index 25Top 23% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
R. R. Gibson

What does R. R. Gibson research?

R. R. Gibson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (80%), Engineering (5%), Materials Science (1%).

Physical Sciences: 55 works · 86.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 51 works · 80.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 36 works · 57.0% of their workInstrumentation: 8 works · 13.4% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 works · 5.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 works · 4.1% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 5.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 3 works · 5.2% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 1.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 13.3% of their workTHEIR WORKR. R. Gibson63works
Physical Sciences87%

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 Astronomy5180.3%
    2. Engineering35.2%
    3. Materials Science11.2%
  2. Everything else813.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation13% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. R. Gibson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Accretion Disks, X-Ray Astronomy, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph and Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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 Holes642 topics
  2. Cosmology341 topic
  3. Galaxies341 topic
  4. Accretion Disks301 topic
  5. X-Ray Astronomy301 topic
  6. Astronomical Instrumentation231 topic
  7. Spectrograph231 topic
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts161 topic
  9. Supernovae161 topic
  10. Exoplanets71 topic
  11. High-Energy Astrophysics71 topic
  12. Optical 3D Laser Measurement71 topic
  13. Particle Acceleration71 topic
  14. Position-Sensitive Detector71 topic
  15. Stellar Astrophysics71 topic
  16. Adaptive Optics41 topic
  17. Wavefront Sensing41 topic

Where does R. R. Gibson work?

R. R. Gibson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Washington, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. R. Gibson have?

OpenAlex counts 63 works and 2,993 citations for R. R. Gibson, an h-index of 24, ranking #1,019,495 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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