Donald E. Osterbrock

452 total papers · 14.1k total citations
189 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Donald E. Osterbrock is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald E. Osterbrock has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 78 papers in Instrumentation and 33 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Donald E. Osterbrock’s work include Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (78 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (64 papers) and History and Developments in Astronomy (47 papers). Donald E. Osterbrock is often cited by papers focused on Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (78 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (64 papers) and History and Developments in Astronomy (47 papers). Donald E. Osterbrock collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Germany. Donald E. Osterbrock's co-authors include J. Michael Shull, Sylvain Veilleux, Richard W. Pogge, A. R. Martel, M. M. De Robertis, J. M. Shuder, J. P. Fulbright, M. J. Seaton, H. D. Tran and G. J. Ferland and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald E. Osterbrock

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Donald E. Osterbrock

171 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Donald E. Osterbrock

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Countries citing papers authored by Donald E. Osterbrock

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