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Researcher · Pennsylvania State University · United States

Abhay Ashtekar

Abhay Ashtekar publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories.

ORCID 0000-0003-0616-2206 OpenAlex
World rank
#28,231
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,630
of 1,627,098
Works
374
Citations
35k
Citations per work
92.4
h-index
85
i10-index 205Top 1.2% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Abhay Ashtekar

What does Abhay Ashtekar research?

Abhay Ashtekar's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (86%), Mathematics (4%).

Physical Sciences: 337 works · 90.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 321 works · 85.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 128 works · 34.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 83 works · 22.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 78 works · 20.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 32 works · 8.6% of their workMathematics: 16 works · 4.3% of their workMathematical Physics: 10 works · 2.7% of their workGeometry and Topology: 6 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 9.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAbhay Ashtekar374works
Physical Sciences90%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy32185.8%
    2. Mathematics164.3%
  2. Everything else379.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics34% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics22% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics21% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9% of their works
  5. 5Mathematical Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Abhay Ashtekar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quantum Gravity, General Relativity, Field Theories, Holographic, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Lorentz Violation and Noncommutative Field Theory.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Gravity4933 topics
  2. General Relativity2302 topics
  3. Field Theories2161 topic
  4. Holographic2161 topic
  5. Cosmological Parameters2071 topic
  6. Dark Energy2071 topic
  7. Lorentz Violation2011 topic
  8. Noncommutative Field Theory2011 topic
  9. Relativity761 topic
  10. Unified Field Theories761 topic
  11. Bell Inequality491 topic
  12. Decoherence491 topic
  13. Casimir Effect331 topic
  14. Quantum Vacuum331 topic
  15. Binary Black Hole271 topic
  16. Gravitational Waves271 topic
  17. Finsler Geometry231 topic
  18. Riemannian Manifolds231 topic

Where does Abhay Ashtekar work?

Abhay Ashtekar's main affiliation in the publication record is Pennsylvania State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Abhay Ashtekar have?

OpenAlex counts 374 works and 34,573 citations for Abhay Ashtekar, an h-index of 85, ranking #28,231 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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