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Researcher · ETH Zurich · Switzerland

Simon J. Lilly

Simon J. Lilly publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6423-3597 OpenAlex
World rank
#25,660
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#537
of 80,918
Works
462
Citations
43k
Citations per work
93.3
h-index
103
i10-index 239Top 0.5% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Simon J. Lilly

What does Simon J. Lilly research?

Simon J. Lilly's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (85%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 414 works · 89.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 393 works · 85.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 258 works · 55.9% of their workInstrumentation: 102 works · 22.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 15 works · 3.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10 works · 2.2% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 7 works · 1.6% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 4.6% of their workComputational Mechanics: 21 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 10.3% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon J. Lilly462works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy39385.1%
    2. Engineering214.6%
  2. Everything else4810.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon J. Lilly's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, 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. Star Formation3922 topics
  2. Black Holes3722 topics
  3. Cosmology3161 topic
  4. Galaxies3161 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation2851 topic
  6. Spectrograph2851 topic
  7. Exoplanets1341 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics1341 topic
  9. Accretion Disks1322 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields1322 topics
  11. Molecular Clouds761 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks761 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts691 topic
  14. Supernovae691 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement601 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector601 topic
  17. Event Horizon Telescope561 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy561 topic
  19. High-Energy Astrophysics371 topic
  20. Particle Acceleration371 topic

Where does Simon J. Lilly work?

Simon J. Lilly's main affiliation in the publication record is ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Simon J. Lilly have?

OpenAlex counts 462 works and 43,103 citations for Simon J. Lilly, an h-index of 103, ranking #25,660 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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