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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

Harvey T. MacGillivray

Harvey T. MacGillivray publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

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World rank
#2,121,119
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#154,342
of 367,258
Works
256
Citations
4.7k
Citations per work
18.4
h-index
31
i10-index 65Top 16% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Harvey T. MacGillivray

What does Harvey T. MacGillivray research?

Harvey T. MacGillivray's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (66%), Engineering (17%).

Physical Sciences: 211 works · 82.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 168 works · 65.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 87 works · 34.0% of their workInstrumentation: 62 works · 24.2% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 10 works · 4.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 works · 3.6% of their workEngineering: 42 works · 16.6% of their workComputational Mechanics: 38 works · 14.8% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 works · 1.8% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 17.6% of their workTHEIR WORKHarvey T.MacGillivray256works
Physical Sciences82%

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 Astronomy16865.8%
    2. Engineering4216.6%
  2. Everything else4517.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics34% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation24% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics15% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Harvey T. MacGillivray's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Black Holes, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation1631 topic
  2. Spectrograph1631 topic
  3. Optical 3D Laser Measurement971 topic
  4. Position-Sensitive Detector971 topic
  5. Black Holes932 topics
  6. Exoplanets811 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics811 topic
  8. Cosmology781 topic
  9. Galaxies781 topic
  10. Spectroscopy442 topics
  11. Optics271 topic
  12. Quantum Computing271 topic
  13. Adaptive Optics241 topic
  14. Wavefront Sensing241 topic
  15. Radio Astronomy171 topic
  16. Transits of Venus171 topic
  17. Accretion Disks151 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy151 topic

Where does Harvey T. MacGillivray work?

Harvey T. MacGillivray's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Harvey T. MacGillivray have?

OpenAlex counts 256 works and 4,717 citations for Harvey T. MacGillivray, an h-index of 31, ranking #2,121,119 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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