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Researcher · Foundational Questions Institute · United States

Brendan Foster

Brendan Foster publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Relativity and Gravitational Theory and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,164,848
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#374,695
of 1,627,098
Works
36
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
32.8
h-index
16
i10-index 18Top 37% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Brendan Foster

What does Brendan Foster research?

Brendan Foster's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (72%), Computer Science (3%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Physical Sciences: 27 works · 75.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 26 works · 72.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 13 works · 36.0% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 5 works · 14.6% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4 works · 12.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 works · 9.0% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 3.4% of their workInformation Systems: 1 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 21.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 3.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 3.4% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKBrendan Foster36works
Physical Sciences75%Social Sciences3%

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 Astronomy2672.0%
    2. Computer Science13.4%
  2. Everything else821.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities13.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics36% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics15% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics12% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems3% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brendan Foster's research?

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

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Gravity293 topics
  2. Cosmological Parameters131 topic
  3. Dark Energy131 topic
  4. Field Theories111 topic
  5. Holographic111 topic
  6. Relativity111 topic
  7. Unified Field Theories111 topic
  8. Lorentz Violation71 topic
  9. Noncommutative Field Theory71 topic
  10. Bell Inequality61 topic
  11. Decoherence61 topic
  12. Astrobiology31 topic
  13. Extraterrestrial Life31 topic
  14. Information Science21 topic
  15. Python21 topic
  16. Scientific Computing21 topic
  17. Technology21 topic

Where does Brendan Foster work?

Brendan Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is Foundational Questions Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brendan Foster have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 1,179 citations for Brendan Foster, an h-index of 16, ranking #1,164,848 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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