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Researcher · Yale University · United States

David Herrera

David Herrera 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 0000-0003-2092-6727 OpenAlex
World rank
#630,839
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#215,461
of 1,627,098
Works
36
Citations
4k
Citations per work
110.3
h-index
19
i10-index 19Top 30% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
David Herrera

What does David Herrera research?

David Herrera's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (79%), Engineering (5%), Environmental Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 32 works · 89.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 29 works · 79.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 20 works · 55.4% of their workInstrumentation: 5 works · 14.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 works · 5.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 5.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 2 works · 5.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 5.0% of their workEcology: 2 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 10.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Herrera36works
Physical Sciences89%

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 Astronomy2979.3%
    2. Engineering25.0%
    3. Environmental Science25.0%
  2. Everything else410.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics55% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation15% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Ecology5% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Herrera's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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. Black Holes212 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation151 topic
  3. Cosmology151 topic
  4. Galaxies151 topic
  5. Spectrograph151 topic
  6. Exoplanets101 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics101 topic
  8. Gamma-Ray Bursts91 topic
  9. Supernovae91 topic
  10. Solar System Abundances81 topic
  11. Terrestrial Planets81 topic
  12. Accretion Disks61 topic
  13. X-Ray Astronomy61 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement51 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector51 topic
  16. Mars41 topic
  17. Martian Surface41 topic

Where does David Herrera work?

David Herrera's main affiliation in the publication record is Yale University, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Herrera have?

OpenAlex counts 36 works and 3,971 citations for David Herrera, an h-index of 19, ranking #630,839 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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