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Researcher · Durham University · United Kingdom

Carlos Silvestre Frenk

Carlos Silvestre Frenk publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2338-716X OpenAlex
World rank
#1,140
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#88
of 367,258
Works
914
Citations
120k
Citations per work
131.4
h-index
157
i10-index 557Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Carlos Silvestre Frenk

What does Carlos Silvestre Frenk research?

Carlos Silvestre Frenk's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (92%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 858 works · 93.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 844 works · 92.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 524 works · 57.3% of their workInstrumentation: 191 works · 20.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 75 works · 8.2% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 39 works · 4.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 15 works · 1.6% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 1.6% of their workComputational Mechanics: 15 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 6.1% of their workTHEIR WORKCarlos SilvestreFrenk914works
Physical Sciences94%

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 Astronomy84492.3%
    2. Engineering151.6%
  2. Everything else566.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation21% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Carlos Silvestre Frenk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmology, Dark Matter, Star Formation, Black Holes, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph and Exoplanets.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Cosmology8122 topics
  2. Dark Matter8122 topics
  3. Star Formation7892 topics
  4. Black Holes6971 topic
  5. Galaxies6971 topic
  6. Astronomical Instrumentation5461 topic
  7. Spectrograph5461 topic
  8. Exoplanets2681 topic
  9. Stellar Astrophysics2681 topic
  10. Cosmological Parameters2301 topic
  11. Dark Energy2301 topic
  12. Cosmic Rays1902 topics
  13. Neutrinos1902 topics
  14. Axions1151 topic
  15. WIMPs1151 topic
  16. Optics1051 topic
  17. Spectroscopy1051 topic
  18. Molecular Clouds921 topic
  19. Protoplanetary Disks921 topic
  20. High-Energy Astrophysics751 topic
  21. Particle Acceleration751 topic

Where does Carlos Silvestre Frenk work?

Carlos Silvestre Frenk's main affiliation in the publication record is Durham University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Carlos Silvestre Frenk have?

OpenAlex counts 914 works and 120,055 citations for Carlos Silvestre Frenk, an h-index of 157, ranking #1,140 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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