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Researcher · National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics · Mexico

David H. Hughes

David H. Hughes 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 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

OpenAlex
World rank
#90,505
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Mexico
#112
of 55,557
Works
321
Citations
30k
Citations per work
93.9
h-index
68
i10-index 158Top 2.6% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
David H. Hughes

What does David H. Hughes research?

David H. Hughes's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (84%), Engineering (7%).

Physical Sciences: 293 works · 91.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 270 works · 84.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 189 works · 58.8% of their workInstrumentation: 43 works · 13.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 33 works · 10.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 works · 1.5% of their workEngineering: 22 works · 7.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 17 works · 5.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 8.8% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid H. Hughes321works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Astronomy27084.2%
    2. Engineering227.0%
  2. Everything else288.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics59% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation14% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David H. Hughes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes2362 topics
  2. Star Formation2362 topics
  3. Cosmology1591 topic
  4. Galaxies1591 topic
  5. Accretion Disks1542 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields1542 topics
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation1221 topic
  8. Spectrograph1221 topic
  9. High-Energy Astrophysics891 topic
  10. Particle Acceleration891 topic
  11. Event Horizon Telescope771 topic
  12. Molecular Clouds771 topic
  13. Protoplanetary Disks771 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy771 topic
  15. Epoch of Reionization751 topic
  16. Radio Astronomy751 topic
  17. Exoplanets641 topic
  18. Stellar Astrophysics641 topic
  19. Optical 3D Laser Measurement481 topic
  20. Position-Sensitive Detector481 topic

Where does David H. Hughes work?

David H. Hughes's main affiliation in the publication record is National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico.

How many publications and citations does David H. Hughes have?

OpenAlex counts 321 works and 30,153 citations for David H. Hughes, an h-index of 68, ranking #90,505 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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