United States Naval Observatory

1.4k papers and 44.9k indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with United States Naval Observatory have published 1.4k papers, which have received a total of 44.9k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 1.1k papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 335 papers in Instrumentation and 285 papers in Computational Mechanics on the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (741 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (331 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (319 papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Astronomy and Astrophysics (40.4k citations), Instrumentation (13.2k citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.2k citations). Authors at United States Naval Observatory collaborate with scholars in United States, Germany and United Kingdom and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters. Some of United States Naval Observatory's most productive authors include Brian D. Mason, D. G. Monet, William I. Hartkopf, Michael Efroimsky, В. В. Макаров, A. V. Hershey, R. S. Harrington, C. C. Dahn, Hugh C. Harris and F. J. Vrba.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at United States Naval Observatory

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with United States Naval 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 United States Naval Observatory at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at United States Naval Observatory

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