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Researcher · Optica · United States

Gerald B. Heim

Gerald B. Heim publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Instrumentation, on topics such as Infrared Target Detection Methodologies, Calibration and Measurement Techniques and CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,651,277
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,013,553
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
122
Citations per work
7.2
h-index
6
i10-index 6Top 54% in Aerospace Engineering
Gerald B. Heim

What does Gerald B. Heim research?

Gerald B. Heim's work is mostly in Engineering (60%), Physics and Astronomy (20%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 80.0% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 60.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 5 works · 30.0% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 20.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 1 works · 6.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 4.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 20.0% of their workInstrumentation: 2 works · 12.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 8.0% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 20.0% of their workTHEIR WORKGerald B. Heim17works
Physical Sciences80%

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. Engineering1060.0%
    2. Physics and Astronomy320.0%
  2. Everything else320.0%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering30% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering20% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation12% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials6% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerald B. Heim's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Infrared, Small Target, On-Orbit Performance, Radiometric Calibration, CMOS Image Sensors, High-Speed Imaging, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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. Infrared81 topic
  2. Small Target81 topic
  3. On-Orbit Performance71 topic
  4. Radiometric Calibration71 topic
  5. CMOS Image Sensors61 topic
  6. High-Speed Imaging61 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  8. Spectrograph41 topic
  9. Adaptive Optics31 topic
  10. Infrared Thermography31 topic
  11. Non-Destructive Testing31 topic
  12. Wavefront Sensing31 topic
  13. Emissions21 topic
  14. Laser21 topic
  15. Methane21 topic
  16. Semiconductor21 topic

Where does Gerald B. Heim work?

Gerald B. Heim's main affiliation in the publication record is Optica, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gerald B. Heim have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 122 citations for Gerald B. Heim, an h-index of 6, ranking #3,651,277 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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