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Researcher · National Radio Astronomy Observatory · United States

W. D. Cotton

W. D. Cotton publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0001-7363-6489 OpenAlex
World rank
#303,862
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#114,262
of 358,040
Works
88
Citations
314
Citations per work
3.6

What does W. D. Cotton research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 53.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 15.0%Instrumentation: 7.0%Aerospace Engineering: 4.0%other fields: 21.0%53%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics53.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics15.0%Instrumentation7.0%Aerospace Engineering4.0%other fields21.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics53% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics15% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation7% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. D. Cotton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epoch of Reionization, Radio Astronomy, High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Epoch of Reionization161 topic
  2. Radio Astronomy161 topic
  3. High-Energy Astrophysics151 topic
  4. Particle Acceleration151 topic
  5. Cosmology121 topic
  6. Galaxies121 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  8. Spectrograph71 topic
  9. Adaptive Optics41 topic
  10. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  11. Supernovae41 topic
  12. Wavefront Sensing41 topic
  13. GNSS31 topic
  14. Global Navigation Satellite Systems31 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic

Where does W. D. Cotton work?

W. D. Cotton's main affiliation in the publication record is National Radio Astronomy Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. D. Cotton have?

Science Explorer counts 88 works and 314 citations for W. D. Cotton, ranking #303,862 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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