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Researcher · Institute for Advanced Study · United States

Freeman J. Dyson

Freeman J. Dyson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life and Relativity and Gravitational Theory.

OpenAlex
World rank
#192,098
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#71,499
of 1,627,098
Works
491
Citations
27k
Citations per work
55.1
h-index
64
i10-index 144Top 3.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Freeman J. Dyson

What does Freeman J. Dyson research?

Freeman J. Dyson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (25%), Social Sciences (11%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Everything else: 289 works · 58.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 125 works · 25.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 125 works · 25.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 58 works · 11.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 47 works · 9.6% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 20 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 77 works · 15.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 53 works · 10.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 32 works · 6.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 21 works · 4.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 24 works · 4.9% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 24 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKFreeman J. Dyson491works
Physical Sciences25%Social Sciences16%

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. Everything else28958.9%
    1. Physics and Astronomy12525.4%
    1. Social Sciences5310.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities244.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics12% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Freeman J. Dyson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bell Inequality, Decoherence, Astrobiology, Extraterrestrial Life, Relativity, Unified Field Theories, Critical Phenomena and Phase Transitions.

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. Bell Inequality361 topic
  2. Decoherence361 topic
  3. Astrobiology341 topic
  4. Extraterrestrial Life341 topic
  5. Relativity171 topic
  6. Unified Field Theories171 topic
  7. Critical Phenomena151 topic
  8. Phase Transitions151 topic
  9. Radio Astronomy151 topic
  10. Transits of Venus151 topic
  11. Climate Consequences141 topic
  12. Nuclear War141 topic
  13. Space Policy141 topic
  14. Space Tourism141 topic
  15. Air Force131 topic
  16. Modernization131 topic

Where does Freeman J. Dyson work?

Freeman J. Dyson's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Advanced Study, United States.

How many publications and citations does Freeman J. Dyson have?

OpenAlex counts 491 works and 27,066 citations for Freeman J. Dyson, an h-index of 64, ranking #192,098 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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