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Researcher · Atacama Large Millimeter Submillimeter Array · Chile

William R. F. Dent

William R. F. Dent publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spectroscopy and Instrumentation, on topics such as Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astro and Planetary Science.

ORCID 0000-0002-2490-1079 OpenAlex
World rank
#738,032
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Chile
#1,108
of 20,642
Works
71
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
35.9
h-index
27
i10-index 38Top 19% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
William R. F. Dent

What does William R. F. Dent research?

William R. F. Dent's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (79%), Chemistry (6%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 64 works · 90.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 56 works · 79.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 51 works · 71.9% of their workInstrumentation: 3 works · 3.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 3.3% of their workChemistry: 4 works · 6.2% of their workSpectroscopy: 4 works · 6.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 2.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 2 works · 2.9% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 1.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 1.9% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 10.0% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam R. F.Dent71works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy5679.0%
    2. Chemistry46.2%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences22.9%
    4. Engineering11.9%
  2. Everything else710.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics72% of their works
  2. 2Spectroscopy6% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation4% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science3% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William R. F. Dent's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds, Star Formation, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Solar System Abundances and Terrestrial Planets.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Accretion Disks512 topics
  2. Magnetic Fields512 topics
  3. Molecular Clouds461 topic
  4. Star Formation461 topic
  5. Exoplanets431 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics431 topic
  7. Solar System Abundances301 topic
  8. Terrestrial Planets301 topic
  9. Epoch of Reionization111 topic
  10. Radio Astronomy111 topic
  11. Molecular Structure101 topic
  12. Rotational Spectroscopy101 topic
  13. Superconducting Detectors101 topic
  14. Terahertz101 topic
  15. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  16. Spectrograph71 topic
  17. Black Holes51 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy51 topic

Where does William R. F. Dent work?

William R. F. Dent's main affiliation in the publication record is Atacama Large Millimeter Submillimeter Array, Chile.

How many publications and citations does William R. F. Dent have?

OpenAlex counts 71 works and 2,550 citations for William R. F. Dent, an h-index of 27, ranking #738,032 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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