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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

Paul K. Townsend

Paul K. Townsend publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories.

ORCID 0000-0003-0311-9448 OpenAlex
World rank
#18,013
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,260
of 367,258
Works
466
Citations
32k
Citations per work
68.3
h-index
89
i10-index 240Top 3.3% in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Paul K. Townsend

What does Paul K. Townsend research?

Paul K. Townsend's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (75%), Mathematics (6%).

Physical Sciences: 378 works · 81.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 348 works · 74.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 164 works · 35.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 78 works · 16.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 75 works · 16.2% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 31 works · 6.7% of their workMathematics: 30 works · 6.5% of their workGeometry and Topology: 17 works · 3.7% of their workAlgebra and Number Theory: 13 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 88 works · 18.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul K. Townsend466works
Physical Sciences81%

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 Astronomy34874.7%
    2. Mathematics306.5%
  2. Everything else8818.8%
  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics35% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics17% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics16% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  5. 5Geometry and Topology4% of their works
  6. 6Algebra and Number Theory3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul K. Townsend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quantum Gravity, Field Theories, Holographic, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Lorentz Violation, Noncommutative Field Theory and High-Energy Collider.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Gravity4242 topics
  2. Field Theories2861 topic
  3. Holographic2861 topic
  4. Cosmological Parameters1561 topic
  5. Dark Energy1561 topic
  6. Lorentz Violation1381 topic
  7. Noncommutative Field Theory1381 topic
  8. High-Energy Collider801 topic
  9. Particle Physics801 topic
  10. QCD481 topic
  11. charmonium481 topic
  12. Cluster Algebras341 topic
  13. Triangulated Categories341 topic
  14. Nonlinear Equations331 topic
  15. Rogue Waves331 topic
  16. Non-Hermitian Physics311 topic
  17. PT-Symmetry311 topic

Where does Paul K. Townsend work?

Paul K. Townsend's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Paul K. Townsend have?

OpenAlex counts 466 works and 31,809 citations for Paul K. Townsend, an h-index of 89, ranking #18,013 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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