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Researcher · Drexel University · United States

Gordon T. Richards

Gordon T. Richards publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-1061-1804 OpenAlex
World rank
#8,945
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,075
of 1,627,098
Works
420
Citations
76k
Citations per work
180.9
h-index
109
i10-index 229Top 0.3% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gordon T. Richards

What does Gordon T. Richards research?

Gordon T. Richards's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (85%), Engineering (4%), Environmental Science (1%).

Physical Sciences: 375 works · 89.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 355 works · 84.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 274 works · 65.2% of their workInstrumentation: 58 works · 13.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 16 works · 3.8% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 7 works · 1.7% of their workEngineering: 15 works · 3.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 15 works · 3.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 1.3% of their workEcology: 5 works · 1.3% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 10.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGordon T.Richards420works
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 Astronomy35584.6%
    2. Engineering153.5%
    3. Environmental Science51.3%
  2. Everything else4510.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics65% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation14% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Ecology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gordon T. Richards's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Event Horizon Telescope and X-Ray Astronomy.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes4582 topics
  2. Star Formation3182 topics
  3. Cosmology2921 topic
  4. Galaxies2921 topic
  5. Accretion Disks1922 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields1922 topics
  7. Event Horizon Telescope1661 topic
  8. X-Ray Astronomy1661 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation1611 topic
  10. Spectrograph1611 topic
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts1401 topic
  12. Supernovae1401 topic
  13. Exoplanets781 topic
  14. Stellar Astrophysics781 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement411 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector411 topic
  17. High-Energy Astrophysics321 topic
  18. Particle Acceleration321 topic
  19. Molecular Clouds261 topic
  20. Protoplanetary Disks261 topic

Where does Gordon T. Richards work?

Gordon T. Richards's main affiliation in the publication record is Drexel University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gordon T. Richards have?

OpenAlex counts 420 works and 75,959 citations for Gordon T. Richards, an h-index of 109, ranking #8,945 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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