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Researcher · Mount Stromlo Observatory · Australia

V. L. Ford

V. L. Ford publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#905,482
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#29,862
of 140,210
Works
32
Citations
2.6k
Citations per work
81.2
h-index
19
i10-index 20Top 30% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
V. L. Ford

What does V. L. Ford research?

V. L. Ford's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (77%), Engineering (17%).

Physical Sciences: 30 works · 94.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 25 works · 77.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 16 works · 48.9% of their workInstrumentation: 5 works · 15.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 3 works · 8.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 works · 4.3% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 17.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 5 works · 16.3% of their workOcean Engineering: 0 works · 1.1% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKV. L. Ford32works
Physical Sciences94%

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 Astronomy2577.1%
    2. Engineering617.4%
  2. Everything else25.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics49% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics16% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation15% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics9% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe V. L. Ford's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Star Formation and Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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. Optical 3D Laser Measurement151 topic
  2. Position-Sensitive Detector151 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation141 topic
  4. Spectrograph141 topic
  5. Exoplanets121 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics121 topic
  7. Star Formation112 topics
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts81 topic
  9. High-Energy Astrophysics81 topic
  10. Particle Acceleration81 topic
  11. Supernovae81 topic
  12. Cosmology71 topic
  13. Galaxies71 topic
  14. Molecular Clouds41 topic
  15. Optics41 topic
  16. Protoplanetary Disks41 topic
  17. Spectroscopy41 topic

Where does V. L. Ford work?

V. L. Ford's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia.

How many publications and citations does V. L. Ford have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 2,597 citations for V. L. Ford, an h-index of 19, ranking #905,482 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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