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Researcher · Descartes Labs (United States) · United States

Samuel W. Skillman

Samuel W. Skillman publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0002-7626-522X OpenAlex
World rank
#2,146,960
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#646,208
of 1,627,098
Works
50
Citations
2.2k
Citations per work
44.8
h-index
14
i10-index 15Top 42% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Samuel W. Skillman

What does Samuel W. Skillman research?

Samuel W. Skillman's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (48%), Computer Science (12%), Environmental Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 32 works · 64.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 24 works · 47.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 17 works · 33.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 works · 7.7% of their workInstrumentation: 3 works · 6.9% of their workComputer Science: 6 works · 11.6% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 works · 6.2% of their workInformation Systems: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEcology: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 35.3% of their workTHEIR WORKSamuel W.Skillman50works
Physical Sciences65%

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 Astronomy2447.7%
    2. Computer Science611.6%
    3. Environmental Science35.4%
  2. Everything else1835.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics33% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics8% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation7% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications6% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems5% of their works
  6. 6Ecology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Samuel W. Skillman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmology, Galaxies, Remote Sensing, Astronomical Instrumentation, High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration, Spectrograph and Phenology.

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. Cosmology131 topic
  2. Galaxies131 topic
  3. Remote Sensing112 topics
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation91 topic
  5. High-Energy Astrophysics91 topic
  6. Particle Acceleration91 topic
  7. Spectrograph91 topic
  8. Phenology71 topic
  9. Vegetation Monitoring71 topic
  10. Epoch of Reionization61 topic
  11. Radio Astronomy61 topic
  12. Exoplanets51 topic
  13. Stellar Astrophysics51 topic
  14. Distributed Systems41 topic
  15. Grid Computing41 topic
  16. Hyperspectral41 topic
  17. Image Analysis41 topic

Where does Samuel W. Skillman work?

Samuel W. Skillman's main affiliation in the publication record is Descartes Labs (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Samuel W. Skillman have?

OpenAlex counts 50 works and 2,242 citations for Samuel W. Skillman, an h-index of 14, ranking #2,146,960 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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