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Researcher · California Institute of Technology · United States

P. Capak

P. Capak publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-3578-6843 OpenAlex
World rank
#17,533
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,284
of 1,627,098
Works
570
Citations
46k
Citations per work
80.8
h-index
119
i10-index 295Top 0.2% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
P. Capak

What does P. Capak research?

P. Capak's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (82%), Engineering (8%).

Physical Sciences: 514 works · 90.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 470 works · 82.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 304 works · 53.3% of their workInstrumentation: 126 works · 22.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 24 works · 4.2% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 17 works · 2.9% of their workEngineering: 44 works · 7.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 30 works · 5.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 14 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 9.8% of their workTHEIR WORKP. Capak570works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy47082.5%
    2. Engineering447.7%
  2. Everything else569.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics53% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P. Capak'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 Formation4572 topics
  2. Black Holes4282 topics
  3. Cosmology3661 topic
  4. Galaxies3661 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation3541 topic
  6. Spectrograph3541 topic
  7. Accretion Disks1532 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields1532 topics
  9. Exoplanets1471 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics1471 topic
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts991 topic
  12. Supernovae991 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds911 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks911 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement841 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector841 topic
  17. Event Horizon Telescope621 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy621 topic
  19. High-Energy Astrophysics541 topic
  20. Particle Acceleration541 topic

Where does P. Capak work?

P. Capak's main affiliation in the publication record is California Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does P. Capak have?

OpenAlex counts 570 works and 46,060 citations for P. Capak, an h-index of 119, ranking #17,533 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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