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Researcher · Optica · United States

David A. Vaughnn

David A. Vaughnn publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Calibration and Measurement Techniques and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,726,569
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,243,355
of 1,627,098
Works
16
Citations
77
Citations per work
4.8
h-index
5
i10-index 3Top 89% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
David A. Vaughnn

What does David A. Vaughnn research?

David A. Vaughnn's work is mostly in Engineering (49%), Physics and Astronomy (26%).

Physical Sciences: 12 works · 74.5% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 48.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 14.0% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 works · 14.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 11.6% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 9.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 25.6% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 14.0% of their workInstrumentation: 2 works · 11.6% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 25.5% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid A. Vaughnn16works
Physical Sciences75%

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. Engineering848.9%
    2. Physics and Astronomy425.6%
  2. Everything else425.5%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering14% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics14% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering12% of their works
  5. 5Instrumentation12% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David A. Vaughnn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, On-Orbit Performance, Radiometric Calibration, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Compound Eyes and Freeform Optics.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Adaptive Optics61 topic
  2. Wavefront Sensing61 topic
  3. On-Orbit Performance51 topic
  4. Radiometric Calibration51 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  6. Spectrograph41 topic
  7. Compound Eyes31 topic
  8. Freeform Optics31 topic
  9. Camera Calibration21 topic
  10. Mars21 topic
  11. Martian Surface21 topic
  12. Optical 3D Laser Measurement21 topic
  13. Position-Sensitive Detector21 topic
  14. Roughness Measurement21 topic
  15. Structured Light21 topic
  16. Surface Characterization21 topic

Where does David A. Vaughnn work?

David A. Vaughnn's main affiliation in the publication record is Optica, United States.

How many publications and citations does David A. Vaughnn have?

OpenAlex counts 16 works and 77 citations for David A. Vaughnn, an h-index of 5, ranking #4,726,569 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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