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Researcher · Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology · United States

Risa H. Wechsler

Risa H. Wechsler 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 0000-0003-2229-011X OpenAlex
World rank
#2,067
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#773
of 1,627,098
Works
614
Citations
55k
Citations per work
88.9
h-index
109
i10-index 346Top 0.3% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Risa H. Wechsler

What does Risa H. Wechsler research?

Risa H. Wechsler's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (84%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 533 works · 86.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 518 works · 84.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 320 works · 52.1% of their workInstrumentation: 126 works · 20.6% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 42 works · 6.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 17 works · 2.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 13 works · 2.1% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 2.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 15 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 81 works · 13.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRisa H. Wechsler614works
Physical Sciences87%

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 Astronomy51884.4%
    2. Engineering152.4%
  2. Everything else8113.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation21% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Risa H. Wechsler's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmology, Dark Matter, Black Holes, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, 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. 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. Cosmology4652 topics
  2. Dark Matter4652 topics
  3. Black Holes3981 topic
  4. Galaxies3981 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation3551 topic
  6. Spectrograph3551 topic
  7. Supernovae2322 topics
  8. Exoplanets1521 topic
  9. Stellar Astrophysics1521 topic
  10. Cosmological Parameters1241 topic
  11. Dark Energy1241 topic
  12. Cosmic Rays1122 topics
  13. Neutrinos1122 topics
  14. Gamma-Ray Bursts1081 topic
  15. Neutron Stars1081 topic
  16. Axions671 topic
  17. WIMPs671 topic
  18. High-Energy Astrophysics451 topic
  19. Particle Acceleration451 topic
  20. Adaptive Optics411 topic
  21. Wavefront Sensing411 topic

Where does Risa H. Wechsler work?

Risa H. Wechsler's main affiliation in the publication record is Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Risa H. Wechsler have?

OpenAlex counts 614 works and 54,558 citations for Risa H. Wechsler, an h-index of 109, ranking #2,067 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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