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Researcher · International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research · Australia

Simon P. Driver

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

ORCID 0000-0001-9491-7327 OpenAlex
World rank
#13,687
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#352
of 140,210
Works
633
Citations
42k
Citations per work
66.4
h-index
105
i10-index 347Top 0.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Simon P. Driver

What does Simon P. Driver research?

Simon P. Driver's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (86%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 573 works · 90.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 541 works · 85.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 345 works · 54.5% of their workInstrumentation: 156 works · 24.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 23 works · 3.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 16 works · 2.6% of their workEngineering: 32 works · 5.1% of their workComputational Mechanics: 22 works · 3.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 60 works · 9.4% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon P. Driver633works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Astronomy54185.5%
    2. Engineering325.1%
  2. Everything else609.4%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics55% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation25% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon P. Driver's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Cosmology4521 topic
  2. Galaxies4521 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation4411 topic
  4. Spectrograph4411 topic
  5. Exoplanets2381 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics2381 topic
  7. Gamma-Ray Bursts1041 topic
  8. Supernovae1041 topic
  9. Optical 3D Laser Measurement611 topic
  10. Position-Sensitive Detector611 topic
  11. High-Energy Astrophysics541 topic
  12. Particle Acceleration541 topic
  13. Adaptive Optics441 topic
  14. Wavefront Sensing441 topic
  15. Epoch of Reionization431 topic
  16. Radio Astronomy431 topic

Where does Simon P. Driver work?

Simon P. Driver's main affiliation in the publication record is International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Simon P. Driver have?

OpenAlex counts 633 works and 42,000 citations for Simon P. Driver, an h-index of 105, ranking #13,687 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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