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S. Michael Fall

S. Michael Fall 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.

World rank
#36,058
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#16,741
of 358,040
Works
57
Citations
670
Citations per work
11.8

What does S. Michael Fall research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 50.7%Instrumentation: 20.5%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 5.5%Computational Mechanics: 5.5%other fields: 17.8%51%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics50.7%Instrumentation20.5%Nuclear and High Energy Physics5.5%Computational Mechanics5.5%other fields17.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics51% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation20% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe S. Michael Fall'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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation151 topic
  2. Spectrograph151 topic
  3. Star Formation152 topics
  4. Black Holes132 topics
  5. Cosmology101 topic
  6. Galaxies101 topic
  7. Exoplanets91 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  9. Accretion Disks82 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields82 topics
  11. Molecular Clouds51 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks51 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  16. Supernovae41 topic
  17. Event Horizon Telescope31 topic
  18. High-Energy Astrophysics31 topic
  19. Particle Acceleration31 topic
  20. X-Ray Astronomy31 topic

Where does S. Michael Fall work?

S. Michael Fall's main affiliation in the publication record is Space Telescope Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does S. Michael Fall have?

Science Explorer counts 57 works and 670 citations for S. Michael Fall, ranking #36,058 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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