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Researcher · California Institute of Technology · United States

Richard S. Ellis

Richard S. Ellis 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 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-7782-7071 OpenAlex
World rank
#31,329
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#11,859
of 1,627,098
Works
1,198
Citations
97k
Citations per work
81.0
h-index
138
i10-index 467Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Richard S. Ellis

What does Richard S. Ellis research?

Richard S. Ellis's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (76%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 952 works · 79.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 916 works · 76.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 567 works · 47.3% of their workInstrumentation: 243 works · 20.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 36 works · 3.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 36 works · 3.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 35 works · 2.9% of their workEngineering: 36 works · 3.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 36 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 246 works · 20.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard S. Ellis1,198works
Physical Sciences80%

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 Astronomy91676.5%
    2. Engineering363.0%
  2. Everything else24620.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics47% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation20% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard S. Ellis's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation6471 topic
  2. Spectrograph6471 topic
  3. Star Formation5972 topics
  4. Black Holes5592 topics
  5. Cosmology4911 topic
  6. Galaxies4911 topic
  7. Exoplanets3881 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics3881 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts2341 topic
  10. Supernovae2341 topic
  11. Accretion Disks1742 topics
  12. Magnetic Fields1742 topics
  13. Molecular Clouds1061 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks1061 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement931 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector931 topic
  17. Adaptive Optics791 topic
  18. Wavefront Sensing791 topic
  19. Event Horizon Telescope681 topic
  20. X-Ray Astronomy681 topic

Where does Richard S. Ellis work?

Richard S. Ellis's main affiliation in the publication record is California Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard S. Ellis have?

OpenAlex counts 1,198 works and 97,013 citations for Richard S. Ellis, an h-index of 138, ranking #31,329 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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