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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Scott Tremaine

Scott Tremaine publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

World rank
#35,955
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,048
of 38,960
Works
79
Citations
904
Citations per work
11.4

What does Scott Tremaine research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 51.3%Instrumentation: 15.7%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 4.3%other fields: 20.0%51%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics51.3%Instrumentation15.7%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics4.3%other fields20.0%

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. 2Instrumentation16% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics9% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Scott Tremaine's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Black Holes, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields and Star Formation.

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 Instrumentation181 topic
  2. Black Holes182 topics
  3. Spectrograph181 topic
  4. Exoplanets151 topic
  5. Stellar Astrophysics151 topic
  6. Accretion Disks132 topics
  7. Magnetic Fields132 topics
  8. Star Formation132 topics
  9. Cosmology91 topic
  10. Event Horizon Telescope91 topic
  11. Galaxies91 topic
  12. Solar System Abundances91 topic
  13. Terrestrial Planets91 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy91 topic
  15. Molecular Clouds41 topic
  16. Optics41 topic
  17. Protoplanetary Disks41 topic
  18. Spectroscopy41 topic
  19. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  20. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic

Where does Scott Tremaine work?

Scott Tremaine's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Scott Tremaine have?

Science Explorer counts 79 works and 904 citations for Scott Tremaine, ranking #35,955 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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