Fred Watson
Impact in
- Astronomy and Astrophysics top 1%
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
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- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
Papers in
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- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 7
- History and Developments in Astronomy 5
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 3
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 2
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- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 10
- Co-authors
- Q. A. Parker (10 shared papers)Will Saunders (6 shared papers)Chris Blake (3 shared papers)Matthew Colless (6 shared papers)Florian Beutler (3 shared papers)L. Staveley‐Smith (3 shared papers)Lachlan Campbell (5 shared papers)D. H. P. Jones (3 shared papers)
- Journals
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (5 papers)Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (1 paper)Observatory (1 paper)Astronomy & Geophysics (2 papers)Columbia University Press eBooks (1 paper)
- Partner nations
- AustraliaUnited StatesCanada
In The Last Decade
Fred Watson
18 papers receiving 2.2k citations
Fred Watson's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 53
- Astronomy and Astrophysics 2.2k
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1.3k
- Instrumentation 282
- Oceanography 130
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 116
Countries citing papers authored by Fred Watson
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Fields of papers citing papers by Fred Watson
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Fred Watson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 22 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The 6dF Galaxy Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations and the local Hubble constant Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 1695 |
| 2 | The 6dF Galaxy Survey: z≈ 0 measurements of the growth rate and σ8 Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 324 |
| 3 | 2014 | 126 | |
| 4 | 2014 | 72 | |
| 5 | 2016 | 30 | |
| 6 | 2018 | 28 | |
| 7 | 2018 | 9 | |
| 8 | Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope | 2004 | 8 |
| 9 | The 6dF Galaxy Survey: z ≈0 measurement of the growth rate and sigma_8 | 2012 | 5 |
| 10 | 2000 | 2 | |
| 11 | RAVE hits the Galaxy | 2003 | 1 |
| 12 | 2005 | 1 | |
| 13 | Book review: The Emergence of the Telescope: Janssen, Lipperhey and the Unknown Man (M. Barlow Pepin) | 2005 | 1 |
| 14 | The 6dF Galaxy Survey: progress and data release 1 | 2004 | 1 |
| 15 | 2004 | 1 | |
| 16 | The 6dF Galaxy Survey: First Data Release | 2005 | 1 |
| 17 | 2019 | 1 | |
| 18 | 6dF: A new spectroscopic survey facility for the U.K. Schmidt Telescope | 2000 | 1 |
| 19 | Obituary: Sidney Charles Bartholomew 'Ben' Gascoigne (1915 - 2010) | 2010 | 0 |
| 20 | 2018 | 0 |
About Fred Watson
Fred Watson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Mechanics and History and Philosophy of Science, having authored 22 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (10 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (7 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (5 papers), History and Developments in Astronomy (5 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (3 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (3 papers), History of Science and Medicine (2 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2.2k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.3k citations), Instrumentation (282 citations), Oceanography (130 citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (116 citations). Fred Watson has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Q. A. Parker, Will Saunders, Chris Blake, Matthew Colless, Florian Beutler, L. Staveley‐Smith, Lachlan Campbell, D. H. P. Jones, Gregory B. Poole and Joss Bland‐Hawthorn. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Observatory, Astronomy & Geophysics and Columbia University Press eBooks.
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