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Researcher · Lowell Observatory · United States

William A. Baum

William A. Baum publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astro and Planetary Science.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,147,532
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#369,659
of 1,627,098
Works
195
Citations
3.4k
Citations per work
17.6
h-index
31
i10-index 55Top 16% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
William A. Baum

What does William A. Baum research?

William A. Baum's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (60%), Engineering (18%).

Physical Sciences: 150 works · 77.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 116 works · 59.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 90 works · 46.2% of their workInstrumentation: 23 works · 11.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 1.8% of their workEngineering: 34 works · 17.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 21 works · 10.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 8 works · 4.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 22.9% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam A. Baum195works
Physical Sciences77%

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 Astronomy11659.6%
    2. Engineering3417.5%
  2. Everything else4522.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Baum's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Mars and Martian Surface.

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. Astronomical Instrumentation561 topic
  2. Spectrograph561 topic
  3. Exoplanets531 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics531 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances451 topic
  6. Terrestrial Planets451 topic
  7. Mars411 topic
  8. Martian Surface411 topic
  9. Extravehicular Activity271 topic
  10. Space Suit271 topic
  11. Cosmology201 topic
  12. Galaxies201 topic
  13. Optical 3D Laser Measurement191 topic
  14. Position-Sensitive Detector191 topic
  15. Radio Astronomy161 topic
  16. Transits of Venus161 topic

Where does William A. Baum work?

William A. Baum's main affiliation in the publication record is Lowell Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does William A. Baum have?

OpenAlex counts 195 works and 3,435 citations for William A. Baum, an h-index of 31, ranking #1,147,532 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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