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Researcher · Institute for Advanced Study · United States

Piet Hut

Piet Hut publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astro and Planetary Science.

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World rank
#245,655
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#90,345
of 1,627,098
Works
307
Citations
14k
Citations per work
46.4
h-index
51
i10-index 107Top 5.7% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Piet Hut

What does Piet Hut research?

Piet Hut's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (72%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 230 works · 74.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 222 works · 72.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 151 works · 49.3% of their workInstrumentation: 32 works · 10.5% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 20 works · 6.6% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 11 works · 3.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7 works · 2.3% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 2.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 8 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 77 works · 25.2% of their workTHEIR WORKPiet Hut307works
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 Astronomy22272.2%
    2. Engineering82.6%
  2. Everything else7725.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics49% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation10% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Piet Hut's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, 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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets1391 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics1391 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation811 topic
  4. Spectrograph811 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances741 topic
  6. Terrestrial Planets741 topic
  7. Accretion Disks502 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields502 topics
  9. Molecular Clouds351 topic
  10. Star Formation351 topic
  11. Optics281 topic
  12. Spectroscopy281 topic
  13. Binary Black Hole181 topic
  14. Cosmological Parameters181 topic
  15. Dark Energy181 topic
  16. Gravitational Waves181 topic
  17. Black Holes151 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy151 topic

Where does Piet Hut work?

Piet Hut's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Advanced Study, United States.

How many publications and citations does Piet Hut have?

OpenAlex counts 307 works and 14,235 citations for Piet Hut, an h-index of 51, ranking #245,655 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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