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Researcher · Lowell Observatory · United States

V. M. Slipher

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

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World rank
#3,711,241
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,027,183
of 1,627,098
Works
117
Citations
390
Citations per work
3.3
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 52% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
V. M. Slipher

What does V. M. Slipher research?

V. M. Slipher's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (60%), Engineering (14%), Environmental Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 93 works · 79.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 70 works · 60.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 60 works · 51.3% of their workInstrumentation: 10 works · 8.7% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 13.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 12 works · 10.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 4 works · 3.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 3.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 works · 3.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 2.5% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 20.6% of their workTHEIR WORKV. M. Slipher117works
Physical Sciences79%

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 Astronomy7060.0%
    2. Engineering1613.7%
    3. Environmental Science43.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences32.5%
  2. Everything else2420.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics51% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation9% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change3% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

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

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Solar System Abundances, Stellar Astrophysics and Terrestrial Planets.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy491 topic
  2. Transits of Venus491 topic
  3. Exoplanets291 topic
  4. Optical 3D Laser Measurement291 topic
  5. Position-Sensitive Detector291 topic
  6. Solar System Abundances291 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics291 topic
  8. Terrestrial Planets291 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation241 topic
  10. Spectrograph241 topic
  11. Antikythera Mechanism131 topic
  12. Astronomical Calculator131 topic
  13. Mars111 topic
  14. Martian Surface111 topic
  15. Economic Growth81 topic
  16. Nighttime Light Data81 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?

OpenAlex counts 117 works and 390 citations for V. M. Slipher, an h-index of 11, ranking #3,711,241 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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