Michael Shao

116 papers and 1.0k indexed citations
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About

Michael Shao is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Shao has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 63 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 39 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Michael Shao’s work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (64 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (62 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (39 papers). Michael Shao is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (64 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (62 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (39 papers). Michael Shao collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Michael Shao's co-authors include Slava G. Turyshev, D. H. Staelin, M. M. Colavita, Kenneth Nordtvedt, J. Kent Wallace, J. G. Williams, Xiaopei Pan, Thomas W. Murphy, B. Nemati and Jordan A. Kreidberg and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Cell Science and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Shao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Shao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Shao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Shao. Michael Shao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Shao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Michael Shao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Michael Shao. The network helps show where Michael Shao may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Shao

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