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Researcher · Cleveland Research (United States) · United States

Wm. E. Sperra

Wm. E. Sperra 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.

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World rank
#4,656,781
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,229,126
of 1,627,098
Works
23
Citations
8
Citations per work
0.3
h-index
1
i10-index 0Top 99% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Wm. E. Sperra

What does Wm. E. Sperra research?

Wm. E. Sperra's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (84%), Engineering (8%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (5%).

Physical Sciences: 22 works · 96.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 19 works · 83.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 14 works · 60.7% of their workInstrumentation: 5 works · 23.0% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 8.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 4.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 3.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 4.9% of their workOceanography: 1 works · 3.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 0 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKWm. E. Sperra23works
Physical Sciences97%

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 Astronomy1983.7%
    2. Engineering28.2%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.9%
  2. Everything else13.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics61% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography3% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wm. E. Sperra's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, 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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy171 topic
  2. Transits of Venus171 topic
  3. Exoplanets151 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics151 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation141 topic
  6. Spectrograph141 topic
  7. Solar System Abundances41 topic
  8. Terrestrial Planets41 topic
  9. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  10. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  11. GRACE11 topic
  12. Kelp Forests11 topic
  13. Ozone Depletion11 topic
  14. Sea Level Rise11 topic
  15. Seagrasses11 topic
  16. Stratospheric Water Vapor11 topic

Where does Wm. E. Sperra work?

Wm. E. Sperra's main affiliation in the publication record is Cleveland Research (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Wm. E. Sperra have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 8 citations for Wm. E. Sperra, an h-index of 1, ranking #4,656,781 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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