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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

P. N. Best

P. N. Best publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-5081-4801 OpenAlex
World rank
#31,527
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#2,421
of 367,258
Works
411
Citations
23k
Citations per work
55.2
h-index
83
i10-index 235Top 1.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
P. N. Best

What does P. N. Best research?

P. N. Best's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (89%), Engineering (6%).

Physical Sciences: 388 works · 94.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 365 works · 88.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 257 works · 62.6% of their workInstrumentation: 57 works · 13.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 51 works · 12.3% of their workEngineering: 23 works · 5.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 14 works · 3.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 6 works · 1.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 0.8% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKP. N. Best411works
Physical Sciences95%

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 Astronomy36588.8%
    2. Engineering235.7%
  2. Everything else235.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics63% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation14% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics12% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering1% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P. N. Best's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, Epoch of Reionization, Radio Astronomy, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes3422 topics
  2. Star Formation3382 topics
  3. Cosmology2831 topic
  4. Galaxies2831 topic
  5. Epoch of Reionization1681 topic
  6. Radio Astronomy1681 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation1611 topic
  8. Spectrograph1611 topic
  9. High-Energy Astrophysics1361 topic
  10. Particle Acceleration1361 topic
  11. Accretion Disks1142 topics
  12. Magnetic Fields1142 topics
  13. Exoplanets761 topic
  14. Stellar Astrophysics761 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope591 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy591 topic
  17. Molecular Clouds551 topic
  18. Protoplanetary Disks551 topic
  19. Gamma-Ray Bursts471 topic
  20. Supernovae471 topic

Where does P. N. Best work?

P. N. Best's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does P. N. Best have?

OpenAlex counts 411 works and 22,669 citations for P. N. Best, an h-index of 83, ranking #31,527 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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