Royal Observatory in Greenwich

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with Royal Observatory in Greenwich have published 957 papers, which have received a total of 26.5k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 751 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 291 papers in Instrumentation and 137 papers in Computational Mechanics on the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (374 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (285 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (224 papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Astronomy and Astrophysics (23.6k citations), Instrumentation (7.2k citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (4.2k citations). Authors at Royal Observatory in Greenwich collaborate with scholars in United Kingdom, United States and Russia and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some of Royal Observatory in Greenwich's most productive authors include D. Lynden–Bell, R. Terlevich, Max Pettini, M. J. Irwin, Charles C. Steidel, Mark Dickinson, Mauro Giavalisco, Kurt L. Adelberger, B. E. J. Pagel and P. A. Sweet.

In The Last Decade

Royal Observatory in Greenwich

862 papers receiving 26.0k citations

Fields of papers published by authors at Royal Observatory in Greenwich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing scholars working at Royal Observatory in Greenwich

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