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Researcher · Flatiron Health (United States) · United States

Rachel S. Somerville

Rachel S. Somerville publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6748-6821 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,842
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,349
of 1,627,098
Works
594
Citations
41k
Citations per work
68.4
h-index
97
i10-index 280Top 0.7% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rachel S. Somerville

What does Rachel S. Somerville research?

Rachel S. Somerville's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (88%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 531 works · 89.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 520 works · 87.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 334 works · 56.3% of their workInstrumentation: 138 works · 23.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 24 works · 4.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 11 works · 1.9% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 11 works · 1.9% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 1.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 11 works · 1.9% of their workEverything else: 63 works · 10.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRachel S.Somerville594works
Physical Sciences89%

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 Astronomy52087.5%
    2. Engineering111.9%
  2. Everything else6310.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rachel S. Somerville's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Supernovae and Accretion Disks.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation5032 topics
  2. Black Holes4612 topics
  3. Cosmology4121 topic
  4. Galaxies4121 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation3891 topic
  6. Spectrograph3891 topic
  7. Supernovae1782 topics
  8. Accretion Disks1402 topics
  9. Magnetic Fields1402 topics
  10. Exoplanets1331 topic
  11. Stellar Astrophysics1331 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts1261 topic
  13. Neutron Stars1261 topic
  14. Molecular Clouds911 topic
  15. Protoplanetary Disks911 topic
  16. Cosmological Parameters521 topic
  17. Dark Energy521 topic
  18. Event Horizon Telescope491 topic
  19. X-Ray Astronomy491 topic
  20. High-Energy Astrophysics411 topic
  21. Particle Acceleration411 topic

Where does Rachel S. Somerville work?

Rachel S. Somerville's main affiliation in the publication record is Flatiron Health (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Rachel S. Somerville have?

OpenAlex counts 594 works and 40,647 citations for Rachel S. Somerville, an h-index of 97, ranking #6,842 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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