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Henry C. Ferguson

Henry C. Ferguson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

World rank
#99,150
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#43,396
of 358,040
Works
174
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
8.0

What does Henry C. Ferguson research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 52.0%Instrumentation: 23.8%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 4.8%Computational Mechanics: 4.4%other fields: 15.0%52%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics52.0%Instrumentation23.8%Electrical and Electronic Engineering4.8%Computational Mechanics4.4%other fields15.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation24% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Henry C. Ferguson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation632 topics
  2. Black Holes602 topics
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation571 topic
  4. Spectrograph571 topic
  5. Cosmology541 topic
  6. Galaxies541 topic
  7. Exoplanets331 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics331 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts181 topic
  10. Supernovae181 topic
  11. Accretion Disks152 topics
  12. Magnetic Fields152 topics
  13. Optical 3D Laser Measurement111 topic
  14. Position-Sensitive Detector111 topic
  15. Molecular Clouds91 topic
  16. Protoplanetary Disks91 topic
  17. Event Horizon Telescope61 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy61 topic
  19. CMOS Image Sensors41 topic
  20. High-Speed Imaging41 topic

Where does Henry C. Ferguson work?

Henry C. Ferguson's main affiliation in the publication record is Space Telescope Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Henry C. Ferguson have?

Science Explorer counts 174 works and 1,396 citations for Henry C. Ferguson, ranking #99,150 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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