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Researcher · Home Office · United Kingdom

David K. Laing

David K. Laing publishes mostly in Archeology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Analytical Chemistry, on topics such as Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis, Color Science and Applications and Dye analysis and toxicity.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,547,574
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#179,420
of 367,258
Works
20
Citations
289
Citations per work
14.5
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 18% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
David K. Laing

What does David K. Laing research?

David K. Laing's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (33%), Engineering (18%), Physics and Astronomy (18%).

Physical Sciences: 10 works · 48.7% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 18.0% of their workBuilding and Construction: 2 works · 10.3% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 works · 7.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 17.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 17.9% of their workChemistry: 3 works · 12.8% of their workAnalytical Chemistry: 3 works · 12.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 33.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 33.3% of their workArcheology: 5 works · 25.6% of their workConservation: 2 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 18.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid K. Laing20works
Physical Sciences49%Social Sciences33%

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. Engineering418.0%
    2. Physics and Astronomy417.9%
    3. Chemistry312.8%
    1. Arts and Humanities733.3%
  3. Everything else418.0%
  1. 1Archeology26% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics18% of their works
  3. 3Analytical Chemistry13% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction10% of their works
  5. 5Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Conservation8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David K. Laing's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cultural Heritage, Hyperspectral Imaging, Raman Spectroscopy, X-Ray Fluorescence, Color Constancy, Colorimetry, Dyeing and Food Colorants.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Cultural Heritage132 topics
  2. Hyperspectral Imaging112 topics
  3. Raman Spectroscopy101 topic
  4. X-Ray Fluorescence101 topic
  5. Color Constancy71 topic
  6. Colorimetry71 topic
  7. Dyeing41 topic
  8. Food Colorants41 topic
  9. Machine Vision42 topics
  10. Synthetic Dyes41 topic
  11. Textiles41 topic
  12. Climate Change31 topic
  13. Conservation31 topic
  14. Fabric Defect Detection31 topic
  15. Texture Analysis31 topic
  16. Chiral Separation11 topic
  17. Liquid Chromatography11 topic
  18. Multivariate Calibration11 topic
  19. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy11 topic

Where does David K. Laing work?

David K. Laing's main affiliation in the publication record is Home Office, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does David K. Laing have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 289 citations for David K. Laing, an h-index of 11, ranking #2,547,574 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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