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Researcher · Lowell Observatory · United States

W. A. Baum

W. A. Baum publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Instrumentation, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Space Exploration and Technology and Planetary Science and Exploration.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,164,892
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#651,013
of 1,627,098
Works
50
Citations
651
Citations per work
13.0
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 52% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
W. A. Baum

What does W. A. Baum research?

W. A. Baum's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (62%), Engineering (18%).

Physical Sciences: 40 works · 80.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 31 works · 62.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 24 works · 48.5% of their workInstrumentation: 4 works · 7.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 4.6% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 works · 1.5% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 18.4% of their workAerospace Engineering: 7 works · 14.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 19.3% of their workTHEIR WORKW. A. Baum50works
Physical Sciences81%

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 Astronomy3162.3%
    2. Engineering918.4%
  2. Everything else1019.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics48% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation8% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. A. Baum's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Extravehicular Activity, Space Suit, Mars, Martian Surface, Astronomical Instrumentation and Exoplanets.

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. Solar System Abundances271 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets271 topic
  3. Extravehicular Activity131 topic
  4. Space Suit131 topic
  5. Mars111 topic
  6. Martian Surface111 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation101 topic
  8. Exoplanets101 topic
  9. Spectrograph101 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics101 topic
  11. Cosmology41 topic
  12. Galaxies41 topic
  13. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  14. Transits of Venus41 topic
  15. On-Orbit Performance31 topic
  16. Radiometric Calibration31 topic

Where does W. A. Baum work?

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

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

OpenAlex counts 50 works and 651 citations for W. A. Baum, an h-index of 11, ranking #2,164,892 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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