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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Andrew Forbes

Andrew Forbes publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics, Quantum Information and Cryptography and Photonic and Optical Devices.

ORCID 0000-0003-2552-5586 OpenAlex
World rank
#231,534
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#588
of 5,570
Works
156
Citations
551
Citations per work
3.5

What does Andrew Forbes research?

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 34.5%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 19.3%Biomedical Engineering: 10.7%Artificial Intelligence: 9.1%other fields: 26.4%34%top field
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics34.5%Electrical and Electronic Engineering19.3%Biomedical Engineering10.7%Artificial Intelligence9.1%other fields26.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics34% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering19% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics3% of their works
  6. 6Acoustics and Ultrasonics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andrew Forbes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optical Manipulation, Orbital Angular Momentum, Entanglement, Cryptography, Optical Modulators, Quantum, Silicon Photonics and Free-Space Optical Communication.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Optical Manipulation371 topic
  2. Orbital Angular Momentum371 topic
  3. Entanglement192 topics
  4. Cryptography141 topic
  5. Optical Modulators141 topic
  6. Quantum141 topic
  7. Silicon Photonics141 topic
  8. Free-Space Optical Communication81 topic
  9. Visible Light Communication81 topic
  10. Imaging Spectroscopy61 topic
  11. Optical Frequency Combs61 topic
  12. Polarimetry61 topic
  13. Ultrafast Lasers61 topic
  14. Bell Inequality51 topic
  15. Decoherence51 topic
  16. Light Propagation51 topic
  17. Random Lasers51 topic

Where does Andrew Forbes work?

Andrew Forbes's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Andrew Forbes have?

Science Explorer counts 156 works and 551 citations for Andrew Forbes, ranking #231,534 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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