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Rachel S. Somerville

Rachel S. Somerville publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

World rank
#121,653
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#52,210
of 358,040
Works
129
Citations
945
Citations per work
7.3

What does Rachel S. Somerville research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 49.7%Instrumentation: 24.9%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 5.9%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4.1%other fields: 15.4%50%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics49.7%Instrumentation24.9%Nuclear and High Energy Physics5.9%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4.1%other fields15.4%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation25% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rachel S. Somerville's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae and Exoplanets.

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. Star Formation492 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation421 topic
  3. Spectrograph421 topic
  4. Cosmology401 topic
  5. Galaxies401 topic
  6. Gamma-Ray Bursts111 topic
  7. Supernovae111 topic
  8. Exoplanets91 topic
  9. Molecular Clouds91 topic
  10. Protoplanetary Disks91 topic
  11. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  12. Optics71 topic
  13. Spectroscopy71 topic
  14. High-Energy Astrophysics61 topic
  15. Particle Acceleration61 topic
  16. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  17. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic

Where does Rachel S. Somerville work?

Rachel S. Somerville's main affiliation in the publication record is Space Telescope Science Institute, United States.

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

Science Explorer counts 129 works and 945 citations for Rachel S. Somerville, ranking #121,653 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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