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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

Walter S. Adams

Walter S. Adams publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,273,603
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#405,932
of 1,627,098
Works
363
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
7.9
h-index
23
i10-index 43Top 24% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Walter S. Adams

What does Walter S. Adams research?

Walter S. Adams's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (56%), Engineering (10%), Social Sciences (2%).

Physical Sciences: 242 works · 66.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 204 works · 56.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 164 works · 45.2% of their workInstrumentation: 30 works · 8.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10 works · 2.8% of their workEngineering: 38 works · 10.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 30 works · 8.2% of their workAerospace Engineering: 8 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 113 works · 31.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 2.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 2.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter S. Adams363works
Physical Sciences67%Social Sciences2%

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 Astronomy20456.3%
    2. Engineering3810.5%
  2. Everything else11331.0%
    1. Social Sciences82.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics45% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation8% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter S. Adams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Optical 3D Laser Measurement and Position-Sensitive Detector.

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 Astronomy1271 topic
  2. Transits of Venus1271 topic
  3. Exoplanets1031 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics1031 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation691 topic
  6. Spectrograph691 topic
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement671 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector671 topic
  9. Antikythera Mechanism451 topic
  10. Astronomical Calculator451 topic
  11. Solar System Abundances301 topic
  12. Terrestrial Planets301 topic
  13. Coronal Mass Ejections221 topic
  14. Solar Dynamics Observatory221 topic
  15. Molecular Clouds161 topic
  16. Star Formation161 topic

Where does Walter S. Adams work?

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

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

OpenAlex counts 363 works and 2,870 citations for Walter S. Adams, an h-index of 23, ranking #1,273,603 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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