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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

Mike Read

Mike 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.

OpenAlex
World rank
#941,130
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#76,949
of 367,258
Works
47
Citations
3k
Citations per work
64.3
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 49% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mike Read

What does Mike Read research?

Mike Read's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (64%), Engineering (15%), Computer Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 40 works · 85.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 30 works · 64.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 18 works · 38.1% of their workInstrumentation: 9 works · 18.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 7.5% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 14.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 5 works · 10.4% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 4.5% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 6.7% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 works · 6.7% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 14.1% of their workTHEIR WORKMike Read47works
Physical Sciences86%

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 Astronomy3064.3%
    2. Engineering714.9%
    3. Computer Science36.7%
  2. Everything else714.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics38% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation19% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications7% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mike Read's research?

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

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 Instrumentation251 topic
  2. Spectrograph251 topic
  3. Exoplanets221 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics221 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement141 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector141 topic
  7. Gamma-Ray Bursts111 topic
  8. Supernovae111 topic
  9. Adaptive Optics101 topic
  10. Wavefront Sensing101 topic
  11. Cosmology61 topic
  12. Galaxies61 topic
  13. Distributed Systems51 topic
  14. Grid Computing51 topic
  15. Distributed Storage41 topic
  16. Network Coding41 topic

Where does Mike Read work?

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

How many publications and citations does Mike Read have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 3,022 citations for Mike Read, an h-index of 12, ranking #941,130 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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