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Researcher · SKA Observatory · United Kingdom

Robert Hanbury Brown

Robert Hanbury Brown publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Education and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7424-4599 OpenAlex
World rank
#214,760
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#19,448
of 367,258
Works
295
Citations
20k
Citations per work
67.4
h-index
48
i10-index 94Top 6.7% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Robert Hanbury Brown

What does Robert Hanbury Brown research?

Robert Hanbury Brown's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (20%), Arts and Humanities (7%), Social Sciences (6%).

Everything else: 171 works · 57.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 75 works · 25.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 60 works · 20.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 60 works · 20.5% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 4.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 14 works · 4.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 12.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 7.2% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 12 works · 4.1% of their workArcheology: 9 works · 3.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 5.5% of their workEducation: 16 works · 5.5% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 4.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 works · 4.0% of their workPlant Science: 12 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert HanburyBrown295works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences25%Social Sciences13%

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. Everything else17157.9%
    1. Physics and Astronomy6020.5%
    2. Engineering144.9%
    1. Arts and Humanities217.2%
    2. Social Sciences165.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences124.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics20% of their works
  2. 2Education6% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science4% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Hanbury Brown's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, High-Resolution Imaging, Transits of Venus, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Arts Education.

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. Radio Astronomy572 topics
  2. High-Resolution Imaging401 topic
  3. Transits of Venus401 topic
  4. Optical 3D Laser Measurement341 topic
  5. Position-Sensitive Detector341 topic
  6. Exoplanets291 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics291 topic
  8. Arts Education181 topic
  9. Visual Culture181 topic
  10. Epoch of Reionization171 topic
  11. Low-Frequency Telescopes171 topic
  12. High-Energy Astrophysics161 topic
  13. Particle Acceleration161 topic
  14. FUS/TLS141 topic
  15. TDP-43141 topic
  16. Cyperus131 topic
  17. Phylogeny131 topic

Where does Robert Hanbury Brown work?

Robert Hanbury Brown's main affiliation in the publication record is SKA Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Robert Hanbury Brown have?

OpenAlex counts 295 works and 19,875 citations for Robert Hanbury Brown, an h-index of 48, ranking #214,760 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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