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Researcher · California Institute of Technology · United States

S. M. Adams

S. M. Adams publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-5855-5939 OpenAlex
World rank
#851,292
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#282,298
of 1,627,098
Works
133
Citations
7k
Citations per work
52.8
h-index
32
i10-index 43Top 15% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
S. M. Adams

What does S. M. Adams research?

S. M. Adams's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (64%), Engineering (12%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Physical Sciences: 102 works · 76.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 86 works · 64.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 60 works · 45.2% of their workInstrumentation: 17 works · 12.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 9 works · 6.8% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 12.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 8 works · 6.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 8 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 18.7% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 4.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 4.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 6 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKS. M. Adams133works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences76%

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 Astronomy8664.5%
    2. Engineering1612.0%
  2. Everything else2518.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology64.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics45% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe S. M. Adams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Optical 3D Laser Measurement.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Gravitational Waves762 topics
  2. Gamma-Ray Bursts591 topic
  3. Supernovae591 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation421 topic
  5. Spectrograph421 topic
  6. Exoplanets391 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics391 topic
  8. Optical 3D Laser Measurement221 topic
  9. Position-Sensitive Detector221 topic
  10. Black Holes211 topic
  11. High-Energy Astrophysics211 topic
  12. Particle Acceleration211 topic
  13. X-Ray Astronomy211 topic
  14. Binary Black Hole171 topic
  15. Neutron Star171 topic
  16. On-Orbit Performance111 topic
  17. Radiometric Calibration111 topic

Where does S. M. Adams work?

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

How many publications and citations does S. M. Adams have?

OpenAlex counts 133 works and 7,026 citations for S. M. Adams, an h-index of 32, ranking #851,292 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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