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Researcher · Lowell Observatory · United States

V. M. Slipher

V. M. Slipher publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and History and Developments in Astronomy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,350,031
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#318,355
of 358,040
Works
32
Citations
29
Citations per work
0.9

What does V. M. Slipher research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 46.3%Instrumentation: 16.7%Computational Mechanics: 16.7%Pharmacology: 3.7%other fields: 16.6%46%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics46.3%Instrumentation16.7%Computational Mechanics16.7%Pharmacology3.7%other fields16.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation17% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics17% of their works
  4. 4Pharmacology4% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe V. M. Slipher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Spectrograph, Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation91 topic
  2. Optical 3D Laser Measurement91 topic
  3. Position-Sensitive Detector91 topic
  4. Spectrograph91 topic
  5. Radio Astronomy81 topic
  6. Transits of Venus81 topic
  7. Exoplanets71 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics71 topic
  9. Solar System Abundances51 topic
  10. Terrestrial Planets51 topic
  11. Phytochemistry32 topics
  12. Traditional Chinese Medicine32 topics
  13. Aconitum Alkaloids21 topic
  14. Toxicity21 topic
  15. Alkaloids11 topic
  16. Amaryllidaceae11 topic
  17. Antioxidant11 topic
  18. Medicinal Plants11 topic

Where does V. M. Slipher work?

V. M. Slipher's main affiliation in the publication record is Lowell Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does V. M. Slipher have?

Science Explorer counts 32 works and 29 citations for V. M. Slipher, ranking #1,350,031 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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