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Researcher · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian · United States

Lars Hernquist

Lars Hernquist publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6950-1629 OpenAlex
World rank
#286
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#141
of 1,627,098
Works
1,101
Citations
111k
Citations per work
100.9
h-index
161
i10-index 605Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lars Hernquist

What does Lars Hernquist research?

Lars Hernquist's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (87%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 977 works · 88.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 955 works · 86.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 683 works · 62.0% of their workInstrumentation: 173 works · 15.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 57 works · 5.2% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 28 works · 2.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 14 works · 1.3% of their workEngineering: 22 works · 2.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 22 works · 2.0% of their workEverything else: 124 works · 11.3% of their workTHEIR WORKLars Hernquist1,101works
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 Astronomy95586.7%
    2. Engineering222.0%
  2. Everything else12411.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation16% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lars Hernquist's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation9802 topics
  2. Black Holes8972 topics
  3. Cosmology7281 topic
  4. Galaxies7281 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation4891 topic
  6. Spectrograph4891 topic
  7. Accretion Disks4212 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields4212 topics
  9. Exoplanets2781 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics2781 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds2521 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks2521 topic
  13. Supernovae2492 topics
  14. Event Horizon Telescope1691 topic
  15. X-Ray Astronomy1691 topic
  16. Gamma-Ray Bursts1341 topic
  17. Neutron Stars1341 topic
  18. Cosmological Parameters1151 topic
  19. Dark Energy1151 topic
  20. High-Energy Astrophysics991 topic
  21. Particle Acceleration991 topic

Where does Lars Hernquist work?

Lars Hernquist's main affiliation in the publication record is Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States.

How many publications and citations does Lars Hernquist have?

OpenAlex counts 1,101 works and 111,042 citations for Lars Hernquist, an h-index of 161, ranking #286 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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