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Researcher · University of California, Irvine · United States

Virginia Trimble

Virginia Trimble publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,514,502
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,200,272
of 1,627,098
Works
803
Citations
5.4k
Citations per work
6.7
h-index
29
i10-index 69Top 17% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Virginia Trimble

What does Virginia Trimble research?

Virginia Trimble's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (54%), Arts and Humanities (11%).

Physical Sciences: 431 works · 53.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 431 works · 53.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 350 works · 43.6% of their workInstrumentation: 46 works · 5.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 35 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 285 works · 35.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 87 works · 10.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 87 works · 10.8% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 35 works · 4.4% of their workHistory: 29 works · 3.6% of their workPhilosophy: 22 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKVirginia Trimble803works
Physical Sciences54%Social Sciences11%

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 Astronomy43153.7%
  2. Everything else28535.5%
    1. Arts and Humanities8710.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics44% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation6% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works
  5. 5History4% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Virginia Trimble's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph 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. Radio Astronomy2401 topic
  2. Transits of Venus2401 topic
  3. Exoplanets1171 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics1171 topic
  5. Gravitational Waves1092 topics
  6. Astronomical Instrumentation981 topic
  7. Spectrograph981 topic
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts721 topic
  9. Supernovae721 topic
  10. Solar System Abundances601 topic
  11. Terrestrial Planets601 topic
  12. Antikythera Mechanism501 topic
  13. Astronomical Calculator501 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement421 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector421 topic
  16. Binary Black Hole371 topic
  17. Neutron Star371 topic

Where does Virginia Trimble work?

Virginia Trimble's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Irvine, United States.

How many publications and citations does Virginia Trimble have?

OpenAlex counts 803 works and 5,404 citations for Virginia Trimble, an h-index of 29, ranking #4,514,502 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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