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Ray A. Lucas

Ray A. Lucas publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

World rank
#279,029
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#106,837
of 358,040
Works
92
Citations
514
Citations per work
5.6

What does Ray A. Lucas research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 45.9%Instrumentation: 24.1%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 5.3%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4.5%other fields: 20.2%46%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics45.9%Instrumentation24.1%Nuclear and High Energy Physics5.3%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4.5%other fields20.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation24% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ray A. Lucas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Star Formation, Cosmology, Galaxies, 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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes332 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation321 topic
  3. Spectrograph321 topic
  4. Star Formation302 topics
  5. Cosmology261 topic
  6. Galaxies261 topic
  7. Accretion Disks112 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields112 topics
  9. Exoplanets91 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  11. Event Horizon Telescope71 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts71 topic
  13. Supernovae71 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy71 topic
  15. Adaptive Optics61 topic
  16. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  17. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  18. Wavefront Sensing61 topic
  19. Molecular Clouds41 topic
  20. Protoplanetary Disks41 topic

Where does Ray A. Lucas work?

Ray A. Lucas's main affiliation in the publication record is Space Telescope Science Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ray A. Lucas have?

Science Explorer counts 92 works and 514 citations for Ray A. Lucas, ranking #279,029 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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