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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.

World rank
#9,166
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,421
of 358,040
Works
244
Citations
4.5k
Citations per work
18.6

What does Lars Hernquist research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 62.3%Instrumentation: 16.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 6.8%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2.8%other fields: 11.4%62%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics62.3%Instrumentation16.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics6.8%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2.8%other fields11.4%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation17% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence1% 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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation1072 topics
  2. Black Holes962 topics
  3. Cosmology791 topic
  4. Galaxies791 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation591 topic
  6. Spectrograph591 topic
  7. Accretion Disks452 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields452 topics
  9. Supernovae332 topics
  10. Exoplanets281 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds281 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks281 topic
  13. Stellar Astrophysics281 topic
  14. Event Horizon Telescope171 topic
  15. Gamma-Ray Bursts171 topic
  16. Neutron Stars171 topic
  17. X-Ray Astronomy171 topic
  18. Cosmological Parameters161 topic
  19. Dark Energy161 topic
  20. High-Energy Astrophysics151 topic
  21. Particle Acceleration151 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?

Science Explorer counts 244 works and 4,532 citations for Lars Hernquist, ranking #9,166 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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