This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Astrodynamics. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Astrodynamics with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Astrodynamics more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers published in Astrodynamics. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Astrodynamics.
About Astrodynamics
The 255 papers published in Astrodynamics in the last decades have received a total of 3.1k indexed citations . Papers published in Astrodynamics usually cover Astronomy and Astrophysics (157 papers), Aerospace Engineering (208 papers), Oceanography (11 papers), Control and Systems Engineering (16 papers) and Applied Mathematics (7 papers) specifically the topics of Astro and Planetary Science (144 papers), Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (129 papers), Space Satellite Systems and Control (114 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (55 papers), Inertial Sensor and Navigation (18 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (18 papers), Guidance and Control Systems (16 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (11 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Astrodynamics are Binfeng Pan, Xinfu Liu, Ping Lu, Shengping Gong, Marcus Märtens, Dario Izzo, Malcolm Macdonald, Kathleen C. Howell, Dong Qiao and Giovanni Mengali.
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