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Researcher · Arizona State University · United States

Richard A. Kirian

Richard A. Kirian publishes mostly in Radiation, Materials Chemistry and Structural Biology, on topics such as Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications and Enzyme Structure and Function.

ORCID 0000-0001-7197-3086 OpenAlex
World rank
#285,814
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#104,117
of 1,627,098
Works
171
Citations
12k
Citations per work
70.8
h-index
44
i10-index 78Top 1% in Radiation
Richard A. Kirian

What does Richard A. Kirian research?

Richard A. Kirian's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (32%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (27%), Materials Science (17%).

Physical Sciences: 88 works · 51.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 54 works · 31.5% of their workRadiation: 46 works · 26.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8 works · 4.7% of their workMaterials Science: 29 works · 16.9% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 29 works · 16.9% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 3.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 6 works · 3.3% of their workLife Sciences: 45 works · 26.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 45 works · 26.6% of their workStructural Biology: 27 works · 15.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 19 works · 11.1% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 21.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard A. Kirian171works
Life Sciences27%Physical Sciences52%

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 Astronomy5431.5%
    2. Materials Science2916.9%
    3. Engineering63.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4526.6%
  3. Everything else3721.7%
  1. 1Radiation27% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry17% of their works
  3. 3Structural Biology16% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology11% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard A. Kirian's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Phase Retrieval, X-ray Imaging, Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Single-Particle Analysis, Macromolecular Crystallography, Structure Solution, Spectroscopy and X-ray Absorption.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Phase Retrieval891 topic
  2. X-ray Imaging891 topic
  3. Cryo-Electron Microscopy701 topic
  4. Single-Particle Analysis701 topic
  5. Macromolecular Crystallography651 topic
  6. Structure Solution651 topic
  7. Spectroscopy311 topic
  8. X-ray Absorption311 topic
  9. Light Harvesting141 topic
  10. Photosystem II141 topic
  11. Channeling111 topic
  12. Channelrhodopsin111 topic
  13. Nuclear Resonant Spectroscopy111 topic
  14. Optogenetics111 topic
  15. Protein111 topic
  16. Structure111 topic

Where does Richard A. Kirian work?

Richard A. Kirian's main affiliation in the publication record is Arizona State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard A. Kirian have?

OpenAlex counts 171 works and 12,106 citations for Richard A. Kirian, an h-index of 44, ranking #285,814 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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