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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

M. A. Read

M. A. Read publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

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World rank
#1,040,667
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#83,995
of 367,258
Works
24
Citations
3.4k
Citations per work
141.9
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 52% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
M. A. Read

What does M. A. Read research?

M. A. Read's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (78%), Engineering (21%).

Physical Sciences: 24 works · 99.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 19 works · 78.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 10 works · 41.4% of their workInstrumentation: 7 works · 30.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 7.1% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 21.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 4 works · 17.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 2.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 0 works · 1.4% of their workTHEIR WORKM. A. Read24works
Physical Sciences100%

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 Astronomy1978.5%
    2. Engineering521.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics41% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation30% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics17% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. A. Read's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Cosmology and Galaxies.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation211 topic
  2. Spectrograph211 topic
  3. Exoplanets141 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics141 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement121 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector121 topic
  7. Cosmology71 topic
  8. Galaxies71 topic
  9. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  10. Wavefront Sensing51 topic
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts41 topic
  12. Supernovae41 topic
  13. Radio Astronomy21 topic
  14. Transits of Venus21 topic
  15. Chemical Mechanical Planarization11 topic
  16. Material Removal Mechanism11 topic

Where does M. A. Read work?

M. A. Read's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does M. A. Read have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 3,406 citations for M. A. Read, an h-index of 11, ranking #1,040,667 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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