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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

Mel Strachan

Mel Strachan publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Instrumentation, on topics such as Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Optical Systems and Laser Technology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,170,360
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#263,818
of 367,258
Works
19
Citations
165
Citations per work
8.7
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 86% in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Mel Strachan

What does Mel Strachan research?

Mel Strachan's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (45%), Engineering (38%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 83.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 works · 45.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 works · 30.2% of their workInstrumentation: 3 works · 15.1% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 37.7% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 17.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 9.4% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 7.5% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 17.0% of their workTHEIR WORKMel Strachan19works
Physical Sciences83%

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 Astronomy945.3%
    2. Engineering737.7%
  2. Everything else317.0%
  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics30% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation15% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering9% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mel Strachan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Laser, Semiconductor, Compound Eyes and Freeform Optics.

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 Optics151 topic
  2. Wavefront Sensing151 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation81 topic
  4. Spectrograph81 topic
  5. Laser51 topic
  6. Semiconductor51 topic
  7. Compound Eyes31 topic
  8. Freeform Optics31 topic
  9. On-Orbit Performance31 topic
  10. Radiometric Calibration31 topic
  11. Fiber Optic Sensors21 topic
  12. Hysteresis Compensation21 topic
  13. Nanopositioning21 topic
  14. Optical Fiber21 topic
  15. Ring Laser Gyroscope21 topic
  16. Rotational Seismology21 topic

Where does Mel Strachan work?

Mel Strachan's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Mel Strachan have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 165 citations for Mel Strachan, an h-index of 6, ranking #4,170,360 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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