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Robert D. Cowan

Robert D. Cowan publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, Advanced Chemical Physics Studies and Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma.

World rank
#26,336
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,336
of 358,040
Works
35
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
48.5

What does Robert D. Cowan research?

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 35.6%Mechanics of Materials: 13.3%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 6.7%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 4.4%other fields: 40.0%36%top field
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics35.6%Mechanics of Materials13.3%Electrical and Electronic Engineering6.7%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry4.4%other fields40.0%

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

  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics36% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials13% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Physical and Theoretical Chemistry4% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert D. Cowan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Density Functional Theory, DNA Strand Breaks, Low-Energy Electrons, Ab Initio Parametrization, Dispersion Correction, Material Analysis, Spectroscopy and Enthalpies.

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. DNA Strand Breaks71 topic
  2. Density Functional Theory72 topics
  3. Low-Energy Electrons71 topic
  4. Ab Initio Parametrization61 topic
  5. Dispersion Correction61 topic
  6. Material Analysis51 topic
  7. Spectroscopy51 topic
  8. Enthalpies21 topic
  9. Vaporization21 topic
  10. Catalysis11 topic
  11. Computational Chemistry11 topic
  12. Dehydrogenation11 topic
  13. Geomagnetic Field11 topic
  14. Magnetosome Formation11 topic
  15. Molecular Simulation11 topic
  16. Partially Ordered Sets11 topic
  17. Periodic Table11 topic

Where does Robert D. Cowan work?

Robert D. Cowan's main affiliation in the publication record is Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert D. Cowan have?

Science Explorer counts 35 works and 1,696 citations for Robert D. Cowan, ranking #26,336 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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