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William B. Smith

William B. Smith publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life.

World rank
#363,731
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#131,492
of 358,040
Works
19
Citations
126
Citations per work
6.6

What does William B. Smith research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 38.7%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 9.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 9.7%Spectroscopy: 6.5%other fields: 35.4%39%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics38.7%Electrical and Electronic Engineering9.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics9.7%Spectroscopy6.5%other fields35.4%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics39% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering10% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Spectroscopy6% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Radiation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William B. Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astrobiology, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Extraterrestrial Life, Particle Detectors, Radio Astronomy, Silicon Detectors and Transits of Venus.

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. Astrobiology21 topic
  2. Cosmological Parameters21 topic
  3. Dark Energy21 topic
  4. Extraterrestrial Life21 topic
  5. Particle Detectors21 topic
  6. Radio Astronomy21 topic
  7. Silicon Detectors21 topic
  8. Transits of Venus21 topic
  9. Absolute Configuration11 topic
  10. Atropisomerism11 topic
  11. Axial Chirality11 topic
  12. Chiral Separation11 topic
  13. Chiroptical Spectroscopy11 topic
  14. JPEG200011 topic
  15. Liquid Chromatography11 topic
  16. Wavelet Compression11 topic

Where does William B. Smith work?

William B. Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does William B. Smith have?

Science Explorer counts 19 works and 126 citations for William B. Smith, ranking #363,731 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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