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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

Stephen William Hawking

Stephen William Hawking publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics and Relativity and Gravitational Theory.

ORCID 0000-0002-9079-593X OpenAlex
World rank
#13,544
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#910
of 367,258
Works
421
Citations
98k
Citations per work
232.8
h-index
105
i10-index 199Top 0.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Stephen William Hawking

What does Stephen William Hawking research?

Stephen William Hawking's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (71%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2%), Social Sciences (2%).

Physical Sciences: 308 works · 73.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 300 works · 71.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 185 works · 43.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 67 works · 15.8% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 34 works · 8.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 14 works · 3.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 1.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 8 works · 1.9% of their workEverything else: 106 works · 25.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 1.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 1.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 works · 1.8% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen WilliamHawking421works
Physical Sciences73%Social Sciences2%

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 Astronomy30071.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences81.9%
  2. Everything else10625.1%
    1. Social Sciences81.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics44% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics16% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science2% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen William Hawking's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quantum Gravity, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Field Theories, Holographic, Relativity, Unified Field Theories and Lorentz Violation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Gravity3113 topics
  2. Cosmological Parameters2161 topic
  3. Dark Energy2161 topic
  4. Field Theories1351 topic
  5. Holographic1351 topic
  6. Relativity1191 topic
  7. Unified Field Theories1191 topic
  8. Lorentz Violation571 topic
  9. Noncommutative Field Theory571 topic
  10. Radio Astronomy291 topic
  11. Transits of Venus291 topic
  12. Astrobiology251 topic
  13. Extraterrestrial Life251 topic
  14. Earth Systems Science191 topic
  15. Gaia Hypothesis191 topic
  16. Bell Inequality161 topic
  17. Decoherence161 topic

Where does Stephen William Hawking work?

Stephen William Hawking's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Stephen William Hawking have?

OpenAlex counts 421 works and 98,021 citations for Stephen William Hawking, an h-index of 105, ranking #13,544 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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