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Stephen A. Shectman

Stephen A. Shectman publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

World rank
#58,363
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#26,559
of 358,040
Works
89
Citations
677
Citations per work
7.6

What does Stephen A. Shectman research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 50.0%Instrumentation: 15.9%Computational Mechanics: 13.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5.6%other fields: 15.0%50%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics50.0%Instrumentation15.9%Computational Mechanics13.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5.6%other fields15.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics50% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation16% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics14% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen A. Shectman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Solar System Abundances 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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets241 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics241 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation201 topic
  4. Spectrograph201 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement171 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector171 topic
  7. Solar System Abundances131 topic
  8. Star Formation132 topics
  9. Terrestrial Planets131 topic
  10. Molecular Clouds91 topic
  11. Protoplanetary Disks91 topic
  12. Adaptive Optics61 topic
  13. Wavefront Sensing61 topic
  14. Cosmology41 topic
  15. Galaxies41 topic
  16. On-Orbit Performance41 topic
  17. Radiometric Calibration41 topic

Where does Stephen A. Shectman work?

Stephen A. Shectman's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Observatories, United States.

How many publications and citations does Stephen A. Shectman have?

Science Explorer counts 89 works and 677 citations for Stephen A. Shectman, ranking #58,363 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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