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Researcher · Western Connecticut State University · United States

P. K. Lu

P. K. Lu publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0009-0006-4015-6482 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,177,892
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#903,996
of 1,627,098
Works
28
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
56.2
h-index
8
i10-index 6Top 67% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
P. K. Lu

What does P. K. Lu research?

P. K. Lu's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (53%), Engineering (9%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%).

Physical Sciences: 21 works · 74.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 15 works · 53.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 11 works · 40.5% of their workInstrumentation: 2 works · 8.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 3.8% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 8.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 2 works · 8.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 works · 7.6% of their workOceanography: 2 works · 7.6% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 5.1% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 25.2% of their workTHEIR WORKP. K. Lu28works
Physical Sciences75%

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 Astronomy1553.2%
    2. Engineering28.9%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences27.6%
    4. Computer Science15.1%
  2. Everything else725.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics40% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation9% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics9% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography8% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P. K. Lu's research?

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

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. Exoplanets91 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  4. Optical 3D Laser Measurement71 topic
  5. Position-Sensitive Detector71 topic
  6. Spectrograph71 topic
  7. GRACE61 topic
  8. Sea Level Rise61 topic
  9. Radio Astronomy51 topic
  10. Transits of Venus51 topic
  11. Binary Black Hole41 topic
  12. Gravitational Waves41 topic
  13. Relativity41 topic
  14. Unified Field Theories41 topic
  15. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  16. Terrestrial Planets21 topic

Where does P. K. Lu work?

P. K. Lu's main affiliation in the publication record is Western Connecticut State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does P. K. Lu have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 1,574 citations for P. K. Lu, an h-index of 8, ranking #3,177,892 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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