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Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

World rank
#17,141
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,168
of 358,040
Works
70
Citations
789
Citations per work
11.3

What does Vera Rubin research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 48.8%Instrumentation: 23.8%Computational Mechanics: 7.1%Radiation: 2.4%other fields: 17.9%49%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics48.8%Instrumentation23.8%Computational Mechanics7.1%Radiation2.4%other fields17.9%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics49% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation24% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  4. 4Radiation2% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vera Rubin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Black Holes, Star Formation, Accretion Disks and Cosmology.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation201 topic
  2. Spectrograph201 topic
  3. Exoplanets141 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics141 topic
  5. Black Holes112 topics
  6. Star Formation102 topics
  7. Accretion Disks72 topics
  8. Cosmology71 topic
  9. Galaxies71 topic
  10. Magnetic Fields72 topics
  11. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  12. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  13. Radio Astronomy51 topic
  14. Transits of Venus51 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope41 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy41 topic
  17. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  18. Protoplanetary Disks31 topic
  19. Cosmological Parameters21 topic
  20. Dark Energy21 topic

Where does Vera Rubin work?

Vera Rubin's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Institution for Science, United States.

How many publications and citations does Vera Rubin have?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 789 citations for Vera Rubin, ranking #17,141 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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