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W. S. Adams

W. S. Adams publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Archeology, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies.

World rank
#260,324
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#101,007
of 358,040
Works
85
Citations
163
Citations per work
1.9

What does W. S. Adams research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 48.2%Instrumentation: 7.1%Archeology: 4.7%Computational Mechanics: 3.5%other fields: 36.5%48%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics48.2%Instrumentation7.1%Archeology4.7%Computational Mechanics3.5%other fields36.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics48% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation7% of their works
  3. 3Archeology5% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. S. Adams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, 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. Radio Astronomy101 topic
  2. Transits of Venus101 topic
  3. Exoplanets91 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  5. Antikythera Mechanism81 topic
  6. Astronomical Calculator81 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation61 topic
  8. Spectrograph61 topic
  9. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  12. Solar System Abundances31 topic
  13. Star Formation31 topic
  14. Terrestrial Planets31 topic
  15. Free-Electron Lasers21 topic
  16. X-Ray21 topic

Where does W. S. Adams work?

W. S. Adams's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Wilson Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. S. Adams have?

Science Explorer counts 85 works and 163 citations for W. S. Adams, ranking #260,324 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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