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Researcher · General Electric (United States) · United States

Ralph A. Alpher

Ralph A. Alpher publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistics and Probability and Clinical Psychology, on topics such as Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

OpenAlex
World rank
#317,094
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#118,121
of 358,040
Works
15
Citations
235
Citations per work
15.7

What does Ralph A. Alpher research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 31.6%Statistics and Probability: 15.8%Clinical Psychology: 10.5%Geophysics: 10.5%other fields: 31.6%32%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics31.6%Statistics and Probability15.8%Clinical Psychology10.5%Geophysics10.5%other fields31.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics32% of their works
  2. 2Statistics and Probability16% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics10% of their works
  5. 5History10% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralph A. Alpher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Coronal Mass Ejections, Plate Tectonics, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Approximation Theorems, Causal Inference, Cosmological Parameters, Crystal Structure Prediction and Dark Energy.

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. Coronal Mass Ejections21 topic
  2. Plate Tectonics22 topics
  3. Solar Dynamics Observatory21 topic
  4. Approximation Theorems11 topic
  5. Causal Inference11 topic
  6. Cosmological Parameters11 topic
  7. Crystal Structure Prediction11 topic
  8. Dark Energy11 topic
  9. Geochronology11 topic
  10. Mantle Dynamics11 topic
  11. Propensity Score11 topic
  12. Regularization11 topic
  13. Solar System Abundances11 topic
  14. Statistical Convergence11 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets11 topic
  16. Variable Selection11 topic
  17. Zircon11 topic

Where does Ralph A. Alpher work?

Ralph A. Alpher's main affiliation in the publication record is General Electric (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Ralph A. Alpher have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 235 citations for Ralph A. Alpher, ranking #317,094 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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