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?
Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.
- 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
- 2Instrumentation17% of their works
- 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
- 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
- 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
- 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.
- High-Energy Astrophysics
- Cosmological Parameters
- Neutron Stars
- Event Horizon Telescope
- Protoplanetary Disks
- Exoplanets
- Magnetic Fields
- Spectrograph
- Galaxies
- Black Holes
- Star Formation
- Cosmology
- Astronomical Instrumentation
- Accretion Disks
- Supernovae
- Molecular Clouds
- Stellar Astrophysics
- Gamma-Ray Bursts
- X-Ray Astronomy
- Dark Energy
- Particle Acceleration
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
- Star Formation1072 topics
- Black Holes962 topics
- Cosmology791 topic
- Galaxies791 topic
- Astronomical Instrumentation591 topic
- Spectrograph591 topic
- Accretion Disks452 topics
- Magnetic Fields452 topics
- Supernovae332 topics
- Exoplanets281 topic
- Molecular Clouds281 topic
- Protoplanetary Disks281 topic
- Stellar Astrophysics281 topic
- Event Horizon Telescope171 topic
- Gamma-Ray Bursts171 topic
- Neutron Stars171 topic
- X-Ray Astronomy171 topic
- Cosmological Parameters161 topic
- Dark Energy161 topic
- High-Energy Astrophysics151 topic
- 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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