Purple Mountain Observatory

3.9k papers and 63.3k indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with Purple Mountain Observatory have published 3.9k papers, which have received a total of 63.3k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 3.4k papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 831 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 327 papers in Instrumentation on the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (1.1k papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (923 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (848 papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Astronomy and Astrophysics (57.8k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (15.0k citations) and Instrumentation (6.2k citations). Authors at Purple Mountain Observatory collaborate with scholars in China, United States and Germany and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters. Some of Purple Mountain Observatory's most productive authors include Yi-Zhong Fan, Xue-Feng Wu, Yu Gao, Bing Zhang, P. M. Solomon, Zi-Gao Dai, D. J. Wu, Xue-Mei Deng, Jun-Jie Wei and Qiang Yuan.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at Purple Mountain Observatory

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with Purple Mountain 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 Purple Mountain Observatory at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at Purple Mountain Observatory

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