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Researcher · KU Leuven · Belgium

Hugues Sana

Hugues Sana publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6656-4130 OpenAlex
World rank
#217,543
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#1,636
of 67,186
Works
542
Citations
16k
Citations per work
30.4
h-index
67
i10-index 222Top 2.7% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hugues Sana

What does Hugues Sana research?

Hugues Sana's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (82%), Engineering (9%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (1%).

Physical Sciences: 498 works · 91.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 443 works · 81.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 337 works · 62.1% of their workInstrumentation: 99 works · 18.2% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8 works · 1.4% of their workEngineering: 49 works · 9.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 36 works · 6.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 13 works · 2.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 works · 1.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 7 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 44 works · 8.1% of their workTHEIR WORKHugues Sana542works
Physical Sciences92%

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 Astronomy44381.7%
    2. Engineering499.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences71.2%
  2. Everything else448.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation18% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics1% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hugues Sana's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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. Exoplanets4291 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics4291 topic
  3. Accretion Disks3272 topics
  4. Magnetic Fields3272 topics
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation2801 topic
  6. Spectrograph2801 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds2441 topic
  8. Star Formation2441 topic
  9. Gravitational Waves972 topics
  10. Optical 3D Laser Measurement971 topic
  11. Position-Sensitive Detector971 topic
  12. Black Holes831 topic
  13. X-Ray Astronomy831 topic
  14. Gamma-Ray Bursts781 topic
  15. Supernovae781 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances731 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets731 topic
  18. Binary Black Hole191 topic
  19. Neutron Star191 topic

Where does Hugues Sana work?

Hugues Sana's main affiliation in the publication record is KU Leuven, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Hugues Sana have?

OpenAlex counts 542 works and 16,455 citations for Hugues Sana, an h-index of 67, ranking #217,543 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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