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Researcher · Optical Sciences (United States) · United States

Mark A. Kahan

Mark A. Kahan publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Spacecraft Design and Technology and Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,063,386
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,309,658
of 1,627,098
Works
19
Citations
79
Citations per work
4.2
h-index
4
i10-index 3Top 95% in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Mark A. Kahan

What does Mark A. Kahan research?

Mark A. Kahan's work is mostly in Engineering (49%), Physics and Astronomy (21%).

Physical Sciences: 13 works · 69.7% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 48.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 13.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 13.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 7.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 7.5% of their workMechanical Engineering: 1 works · 7.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 20.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 20.8% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 30.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMark A. Kahan19works
Physical Sciences70%

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. Engineering948.9%
    2. Physics and Astronomy420.8%
  2. Everything else630.3%
  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics21% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering13% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark A. Kahan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Acousto-Optic, Crystals, CubeSat, Dimensional Metrology, Error Compensation and small satellite.

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. Adaptive Optics71 topic
  2. Wavefront Sensing71 topic
  3. Acousto-Optic41 topic
  4. Crystals41 topic
  5. CubeSat41 topic
  6. Dimensional Metrology41 topic
  7. Error Compensation41 topic
  8. small satellite41 topic
  9. Compound Eyes31 topic
  10. Freeform Optics31 topic
  11. On-Orbit Performance21 topic
  12. Optical Modulators21 topic
  13. Radiometric Calibration21 topic
  14. Roughness Measurement21 topic
  15. Silicon Photonics21 topic
  16. Surface Characterization21 topic

Where does Mark A. Kahan work?

Mark A. Kahan's main affiliation in the publication record is Optical Sciences (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Mark A. Kahan have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 79 citations for Mark A. Kahan, an h-index of 4, ranking #5,063,386 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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