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Researcher · The University of Texas at Austin · United States

Thomas J.R. Hughes

Thomas J.R. Hughes publishes mostly in Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials and Computational Theory and Mathematics, on topics such as Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics, Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques and Numerical methods in engineering.

ORCID 0000-0001-7024-8368 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,201
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#817
of 1,627,098
Works
740
Citations
106k
Citations per work
143.4
h-index
150
i10-index 400Top 0.1% in Computational Mechanics
Thomas J.R. Hughes

What does Thomas J.R. Hughes research?

Thomas J.R. Hughes's work is mostly in Engineering (49%), Computer Science (9%).

Physical Sciences: 429 works · 58.0% of their workEngineering: 360 works · 48.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 232 works · 31.3% of their workMechanics of Materials: 73 works · 9.8% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 28 works · 3.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 28 works · 3.8% of their workComputer Science: 69 works · 9.3% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 40 works · 5.4% of their workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 29 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 311 works · 42.0% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas J.R.Hughes740works
Physical Sciences58%

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. Engineering36048.7%
    2. Computer Science699.3%
  2. Everything else31142.0%
  1. 1Computational Mechanics31% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials10% of their works
  3. 3Computational Theory and Mathematics5% of their works
  4. 4Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design4% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas J.R. Hughes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fluid-Structure Interaction, Adaptive Mesh Refinement, High-Order Schemes, Discontinuous Galerkin Methods, Finite Element Methods, Radial Basis Functions, Finite Elements and NURBS.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Fluid-Structure Interaction3762 topics
  2. Adaptive Mesh Refinement2802 topics
  3. High-Order Schemes2802 topics
  4. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods2061 topic
  5. Finite Element Methods2061 topic
  6. Radial Basis Functions1822 topics
  7. Finite Elements1701 topic
  8. NURBS1701 topic
  9. Fracture1081 topic
  10. Meshless Methods1081 topic
  11. Shock-Wave Interactions741 topic
  12. Turbulence Modeling741 topic
  13. Turbulent Flows561 topic
  14. Vortex Dynamics561 topic
  15. Heterogeneous521 topic
  16. Multiscale Methods521 topic
  17. Delaunay Triangulations451 topic
  18. Mesh Generation451 topic
  19. Electromagnetics411 topic
  20. Finite-Difference Time-Domain411 topic

Where does Thomas J.R. Hughes work?

Thomas J.R. Hughes's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Texas at Austin, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas J.R. Hughes have?

OpenAlex counts 740 works and 106,119 citations for Thomas J.R. Hughes, an h-index of 150, ranking #2,201 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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