Virginia Trimble

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
175 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Virginia Trimble is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia Trimble has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 30 papers in Instrumentation and 21 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Virginia Trimble's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers), History and Developments in Astronomy (41 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (31 papers). Virginia Trimble is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers), History and Developments in Astronomy (41 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (31 papers). Virginia Trimble collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. Virginia Trimble's co-authors include Carl J. Hansen, S. D. Kawaler, F. Reines, Andreas Reisenegger, Vicent J. Martı́nez, M. Goldhaber, Michael R. Feldman, Bernard J. T. Jones, Jesse L. Greenstein and E. Saar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

Virginia Trimble

158 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Existence and Nature of Dark Matter in the Universe 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 100 200 300

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Virginia Trimble United States 21 1.6k 755 219 190 161 175 2.2k
R. F. Carswell United Kingdom 36 3.8k 2.3× 1.3k 1.7× 396 1.8× 758 4.0× 260 1.6× 134 4.2k
Kenneth R. Lang United States 17 1.3k 0.8× 287 0.4× 105 0.5× 161 0.8× 52 0.3× 71 1.6k
Martin Harwit United States 29 1.9k 1.2× 219 0.3× 406 1.9× 196 1.0× 69 0.4× 178 2.7k
A. A. Penzias United States 23 2.3k 1.4× 660 0.9× 720 3.3× 77 0.4× 131 0.8× 97 3.1k
W. H. Tucker United States 22 2.3k 1.5× 616 0.8× 265 1.2× 78 0.4× 34 0.2× 72 2.7k
Alan P. Lightman United States 21 2.3k 1.4× 918 1.2× 379 1.7× 41 0.2× 164 1.0× 53 2.8k
B. Warner South Africa 29 1.9k 1.2× 281 0.4× 383 1.7× 206 1.1× 33 0.2× 155 2.4k
S. D’Odorico Germany 37 3.4k 2.1× 603 0.8× 755 3.4× 1.3k 6.8× 116 0.7× 159 4.1k
M. H. Cohen United States 35 3.8k 2.3× 2.8k 3.7× 283 1.3× 182 1.0× 89 0.6× 150 4.6k
W. H. McCrea United Kingdom 17 1.7k 1.0× 511 0.7× 262 1.2× 167 0.9× 311 1.9× 104 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Virginia Trimble

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Fields of papers citing papers by Virginia Trimble

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virginia Trimble

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Virginia Trimble. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Virginia Trimble based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Virginia Trimble. Virginia Trimble is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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D’Urso, Brian, Z. B. Etienne, Michael R. Feldman, et al.. (2019). Space-Based Measurements of G. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 556. 1 indexed citations
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Osborn, W., Jennifer Bartlett, Stephen C. McCluskey, et al.. (2019). Preservation of Our Astronomical Heritage. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(7). 21.
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Trimble, Virginia. (2018). THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR I ON RELATIVITY PART II. Observatory. 138(1263). 46–58. 1 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia. (2012). Eponyms, Hubble's Law, and the Three Princes of Parallax. Observatory. 132(1226). 33–40. 1 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia. (2009). Conceptions of the Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology.. Physics in Perspective. 11(1). 109–111. 1 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia. (2009). Cosmology -- Man's place in the universe. Open Collections.
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Trimble, Virginia. (2006). The other backgrounds. Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India. 34(2). 167. 1 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia & Markus J. Aschwanden. (2001). Astrophysics in 2000. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 113(787). 1025–1114. 5 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia. (2000). A hecatomb to Urania. 28. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia. (2000). A Year of Discovery: Astronomy Highlights of 2000. Sky and Telescope. 101(2). 28–37. 1 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia & Andreas Reisenegger. (1996). Clusters, lensing, and the future of the universe : a symposium held in Conjunction with the 160th Annual Meeting of the ASP at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 26-28 June 1995. Astronomical Society of the Pacific eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia & Andreas Reisenegger. (1995). Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe. 160. 6. 40 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia & Peter Leonard. (1995). Astrophysics in 1994. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 107. 1–1. 7 indexed citations
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Clayton, Geoffrey C., Deidre A. Hunter, L. A. McFadden, et al.. (1992). Women in astronomy: a sampler of issues and ideas.. 21(1). 27–36. 1 indexed citations
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Holt, Stephen S., C. L. Bennett, & Virginia Trimble. (1991). After the first three minutes. AIPC. 222. 29 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia. (1990). The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way. Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 140. 29–34.
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Trimble, Virginia. (1982). PROGENITORS AND BIRTH-RATES OF CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES AND TYPE-I SUPER-NOVAE. Observatory. 102(1049). 133–135. 2 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia. (1978). Q(alpha) reconsidered. Observatory. 98(1025). 163–166. 15 indexed citations
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Trimble, Virginia. (1977). On the incidence of close binary stars in globular clusters and the nature of the cluster X-ray sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 178(3). 335–343. 5 indexed citations
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Greenstein, Jesse L. & Virginia Trimble. (1967). Gravitational redshifts of the white dwarfs. 72. 301. 1 indexed citations

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