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Researcher · Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica · Taiwan

Lihwai Lin

Lihwai Lin publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-7218-7407 OpenAlex
World rank
#64,569
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Taiwan
#141
of 57,035
Works
164
Citations
16k
Citations per work
99.2
h-index
49
i10-index 93Top 6.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lihwai Lin

What does Lihwai Lin research?

Lihwai Lin's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (89%), Chemistry (2%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 153 works · 93.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 146 works · 89.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 102 works · 62.2% of their workInstrumentation: 36 works · 22.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 works · 2.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 3 works · 2.1% of their workChemistry: 3 works · 2.1% of their workSpectroscopy: 3 works · 2.1% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 1.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 3 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 7.0% of their workTHEIR WORKLihwai Lin164works
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 Astronomy14689.2%
    2. Chemistry32.1%
    3. Engineering31.7%
  2. Everything else117.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation22% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  5. 5Spectroscopy2% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lihwai Lin'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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation1812 topics
  2. Black Holes1482 topics
  3. Cosmology1331 topic
  4. Galaxies1331 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation1051 topic
  6. Spectrograph1051 topic
  7. Accretion Disks632 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields632 topics
  9. Exoplanets481 topic
  10. Molecular Clouds481 topic
  11. Protoplanetary Disks481 topic
  12. Stellar Astrophysics481 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts401 topic
  14. Supernovae401 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope151 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy151 topic
  17. Optics121 topic
  18. Spectroscopy121 topic
  19. Spectroscopic Databases101 topic
  20. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers101 topic

Where does Lihwai Lin work?

Lihwai Lin's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

How many publications and citations does Lihwai Lin have?

OpenAlex counts 164 works and 16,272 citations for Lihwai Lin, an h-index of 49, ranking #64,569 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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