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Researcher · Goddard Space Flight Center · United States

L. Y. Aaron Yung

L. Y. Aaron Yung publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

ORCID 0000-0003-3466-035X OpenAlex
World rank
#6,670
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,299
of 1,627,098
Works
265
Citations
8.6k
Citations per work
32.4
h-index
46
i10-index 112Top 7.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
L. Y. Aaron Yung

What does L. Y. Aaron Yung research?

L. Y. Aaron Yung's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (88%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 245 works · 92.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 234 works · 88.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 147 works · 55.5% of their workInstrumentation: 72 works · 27.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8 works · 2.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 7 works · 2.7% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 4.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 2.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKL. Y. Aaron Yung265works
Physical Sciences93%

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 Astronomy23488.4%
    2. Engineering114.2%
  2. Everything else207.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics56% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation27% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe L. Y. Aaron Yung's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae.

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. Star Formation2352 topics
  2. Black Holes2292 topics
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation2091 topic
  4. Spectrograph2091 topic
  5. Cosmology1971 topic
  6. Galaxies1971 topic
  7. Gamma-Ray Bursts741 topic
  8. Supernovae741 topic
  9. Accretion Disks702 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields702 topics
  11. Exoplanets581 topic
  12. Stellar Astrophysics581 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds381 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks381 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope321 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy321 topic
  17. Adaptive Optics201 topic
  18. Wavefront Sensing201 topic
  19. Optical 3D Laser Measurement161 topic
  20. Position-Sensitive Detector161 topic

Where does L. Y. Aaron Yung work?

L. Y. Aaron Yung's main affiliation in the publication record is Goddard Space Flight Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does L. Y. Aaron Yung have?

OpenAlex counts 265 works and 8,589 citations for L. Y. Aaron Yung, an h-index of 46, ranking #6,670 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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