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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

Sinclair Smith

Sinclair Smith publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

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World rank
#4,952,440
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,288,234
of 1,627,098
Works
15
Citations
333
Citations per work
22.2
h-index
5
i10-index 5Top 84% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Sinclair Smith

What does Sinclair Smith research?

Sinclair Smith's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (49%), Engineering (23%).

Physical Sciences: 11 works · 71.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 works · 48.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 works · 20.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 works · 11.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 8.6% of their workInstrumentation: 1 works · 8.6% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 22.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 11.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 works · 11.4% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 28.6% of their workTHEIR WORKSinclair Smith15works
Physical Sciences71%

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 Astronomy748.6%
    2. Engineering322.8%
  2. Everything else428.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics20% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics11% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering11% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sinclair Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pulsed Power, Astronomical Instrumentation, Exoplanets, Radio Astronomy, Spectrograph, Stellar Astrophysics, Transits of Venus and Electromagnetic Launch.

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. Pulsed Power42 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  3. Exoplanets31 topic
  4. Radio Astronomy31 topic
  5. Spectrograph31 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics31 topic
  7. Transits of Venus31 topic
  8. Electromagnetic Launch21 topic
  9. Electron Beam21 topic
  10. Experimental Tools21 topic
  11. High Current21 topic
  12. Optical Modulators21 topic
  13. Railgun21 topic
  14. Silicon Photonics21 topic
  15. Smartphones21 topic
  16. Thermal Plasma21 topic
  17. Vacuum Arcs21 topic

Where does Sinclair Smith work?

Sinclair Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Wilson Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Sinclair Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 333 citations for Sinclair Smith, an h-index of 5, ranking #4,952,440 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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