Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

1.7k papers and 77.1k indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have published 1.7k papers, which have received a total of 77.1k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 1.5k papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 632 papers in Instrumentation and 199 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics on the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (1.1k papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (641 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (627 papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Astronomy and Astrophysics (74.5k citations), Instrumentation (21.1k citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (17.3k citations). Authors at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory collaborate with scholars in Chile, United States and Germany and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Nature Communications. Some of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory's most productive authors include M. M. Phillips, Andreï Tokovinin, N. B. Suntzeff, J. A. Baldwin, R. Terlevich, R. A. Schommer, J. Tonry, R. Kirshner, R. Chris Smith and Saurabh W. Jha.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory at the time of their publication. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers affiliated with Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

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