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Researcher · Yellowstone Ecological Research Center · United States

S. W. Burnham

S. W. Burnham publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Historical Astronomy and Related Studies and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

OpenAlex
World rank
#507,530
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#168,162
of 358,040
Works
54
Citations
72
Citations per work
1.3

What does S. W. Burnham research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 46.8%Computational Mechanics: 9.7%Instrumentation: 8.1%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4.8%other fields: 30.6%47%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics46.8%Computational Mechanics9.7%Instrumentation8.1%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics4.8%other fields30.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics47% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation8% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5% of their works
  5. 5Archeology3% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe S. W. Burnham's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Exoplanets, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector 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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy111 topic
  2. Transits of Venus111 topic
  3. Antikythera Mechanism71 topic
  4. Astronomical Calculator71 topic
  5. Exoplanets61 topic
  6. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  7. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics61 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation51 topic
  10. Spectrograph51 topic
  11. Solar System Abundances31 topic
  12. Terrestrial Planets31 topic
  13. Biogeography22 topics
  14. Taxonomy22 topics
  15. Angiosperm Phylogeny11 topic
  16. Brassicaceae11 topic
  17. Flowering Plants11 topic
  18. Phylogeny11 topic

Where does S. W. Burnham work?

S. W. Burnham's main affiliation in the publication record is Yellowstone Ecological Research Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does S. W. Burnham have?

Science Explorer counts 54 works and 72 citations for S. W. Burnham, ranking #507,530 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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