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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy · Germany

William A. Sherwood

William A. Sherwood 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.

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World rank
#7,536,017
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#359,051
of 364,343
Works
75
Citations
267
Citations per work
3.6
h-index
7
i10-index 4Top 73% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
William A. Sherwood

What does William A. Sherwood research?

William A. Sherwood's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (53%), Engineering (7%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 48 works · 63.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 40 works · 53.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 28 works · 37.4% of their workInstrumentation: 9 works · 12.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 3 works · 3.4% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 7.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 7.4% of their workChemistry: 2 works · 3.0% of their workSpectroscopy: 2 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 33.5% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 3.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 3.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam A.Sherwood75works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences64%

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 Astronomy4053.1%
    2. Engineering67.4%
    3. Chemistry23.0%
  2. Everything else2533.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences23.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics37% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Spectroscopy3% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Sherwood's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Stellar Astrophysics and Optical 3D Laser Measurement.

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. Astronomical Instrumentation251 topic
  2. Spectrograph251 topic
  3. Star Formation242 topics
  4. Cosmology161 topic
  5. Exoplanets161 topic
  6. Galaxies161 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics161 topic
  8. Optical 3D Laser Measurement141 topic
  9. Position-Sensitive Detector141 topic
  10. Epoch of Reionization101 topic
  11. Radio Astronomy101 topic
  12. Molecular Clouds81 topic
  13. Protoplanetary Disks81 topic
  14. GRACE61 topic
  15. Sea Level Rise61 topic
  16. Spectroscopic Databases61 topic
  17. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers61 topic

Where does William A. Sherwood work?

William A. Sherwood's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany.

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

OpenAlex counts 75 works and 267 citations for William A. Sherwood, an h-index of 7, ranking #7,536,017 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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