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Researcher · Dudley Observatory · United States

G. W. Hough

G. W. Hough publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astro and Planetary Science and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

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World rank
#4,039,266
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,099,621
of 1,627,098
Works
70
Citations
31
Citations per work
0.4
h-index
3
i10-index 0Top 94% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
G. W. Hough

What does G. W. Hough research?

G. W. Hough's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (54%), Engineering (13%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 49 works · 70.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 38 works · 53.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 38 works · 53.7% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 13.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 9.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 4.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 3.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 2 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 17 works · 24.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 5.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 2.8% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 2.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 2.3% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKG. W. Hough70works
Physical Sciences70%Social Sciences5%

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 Astronomy3853.7%
    2. Engineering913.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences23.4%
  2. Everything else1724.8%
    1. Arts and Humanities22.8%
    2. Social Sciences22.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science3% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science3% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe G. W. Hough's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Transits of Venus, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Antikythera Mechanism and Astronomical Calculator.

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. Radio Astronomy331 topic
  2. Solar System Abundances331 topic
  3. Terrestrial Planets331 topic
  4. Transits of Venus331 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement161 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector161 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism141 topic
  8. Astronomical Calculator141 topic
  9. Exoplanets101 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics101 topic
  11. Aboriginal Astronomy41 topic
  12. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  13. Australian Indigenous Languages41 topic
  14. Ozone Depletion41 topic
  15. Spectrograph41 topic
  16. Stratospheric Water Vapor41 topic

Where does G. W. Hough work?

G. W. Hough's main affiliation in the publication record is Dudley Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does G. W. Hough have?

OpenAlex counts 70 works and 31 citations for G. W. Hough, an h-index of 3, ranking #4,039,266 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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