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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 Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Superconducting and THz Device Technology.

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World rank
#858,881
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Mexico
#1,816
of 55,557
Works
108
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
33.6
h-index
30
i10-index 48Top 17% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
David H. Hughes

What does David H. Hughes research?

David H. Hughes's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (75%), Engineering (10%).

Physical Sciences: 91 works · 84.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 81 works · 75.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 57 works · 53.2% of their workInstrumentation: 14 works · 12.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 works · 5.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 5 works · 4.4% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 9.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 5.1% of their workAerospace Engineering: 5 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 17 works · 15.3% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid H. Hughes108works
Physical Sciences85%

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 Astronomy8175.2%
    2. Engineering109.5%
  2. Everything else1715.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics53% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David H. Hughes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Superconducting Detectors, Terahertz 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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation572 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation371 topic
  3. Spectrograph371 topic
  4. Cosmology321 topic
  5. Galaxies321 topic
  6. Superconducting Detectors311 topic
  7. Terahertz311 topic
  8. Exoplanets251 topic
  9. Molecular Clouds251 topic
  10. Protoplanetary Disks251 topic
  11. Stellar Astrophysics251 topic
  12. Epoch of Reionization231 topic
  13. Radio Astronomy231 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement151 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector151 topic
  16. Adaptive Optics141 topic
  17. Wavefront Sensing141 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 108 works and 3,631 citations for David H. Hughes, an h-index of 30, ranking #858,881 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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