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×1.2143k/116kAA
×0.622k/35kINSTR
×1.726k/15kNHEP
×1.98k/4kSPECT
×1.88k/4kAS
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Countries where authors publish in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 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 The Astrophysical Journal Letters with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites The Astrophysical Journal Letters more than expected).
Fields of papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
This network shows the impact of papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 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 The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
About The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The 6.1k papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in the last decades have received a total of 151.5k indexed citations . Papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters usually cover Astronomy and Astrophysics (6.0k papers), Instrumentation (785 papers), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.0k papers), Geophysics (231 papers) and Spectroscopy (270 papers) specifically the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (2.6k papers), Astro and Planetary Science (1.8k papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (1.8k papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (1.4k papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (1.4k papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (1.3k papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (1.2k papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (858 papers). The most active scholars publishing in The Astrophysical Journal Letters are Bing Zhang, Abraham Loeb, Roger A. Chevalier, Luciano Rezzolla, Richard S. Ellis, D. E. Holz, Elias R. Most, Will M. Farr, Ravi Kopparapu and A. V. Filippenko.
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