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Wayne Orchiston

Wayne Orchiston publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, History and Philosophy of Science and Anthropology, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Australian Indigenous Culture and History and History of Science and Medicine.

World rank
#450,007
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Thailand
#397
of 2,514
Works
123
Citations
96
Citations per work
0.8

What does Wayne Orchiston research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 37.9%History and Philosophy of Science: 29.1%Anthropology: 13.7%Computational Mechanics: 2.7%other fields: 16.6%38%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics37.9%History and Philosophy of Science29.1%Anthropology13.7%Computational Mechanics2.7%other fields16.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics38% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science29% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology14% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Archeology2% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wayne Orchiston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, History, Science, Aboriginal Astronomy, Australian Indigenous Languages, Innovation and Technology.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy441 topic
  2. Transits of Venus441 topic
  3. History312 topics
  4. Science312 topics
  5. Aboriginal Astronomy241 topic
  6. Australian Indigenous Languages241 topic
  7. Innovation191 topic
  8. Technology191 topic
  9. Global History181 topic
  10. Science Circulation181 topic
  11. Colonialism121 topic
  12. Knowledge Production121 topic
  13. Antikythera Mechanism111 topic
  14. Astronomical Calculator111 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  17. Space Policy41 topic
  18. Space Tourism41 topic

Where does Wayne Orchiston work?

Wayne Orchiston's main affiliation in the publication record is National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, Thailand.

How many publications and citations does Wayne Orchiston have?

Science Explorer counts 123 works and 96 citations for Wayne Orchiston, ranking #450,007 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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