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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.

World rank
#636
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#267
of 358,040
Works
163
Citations
3.7k
Citations per work
22.7

What does Thomas J.R. Hughes research?

Computational Mechanics: 29.1%Mechanics of Materials: 12.2%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 5.7%Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 5.2%other fields: 47.8%29%top field
Computational Mechanics29.1%Mechanics of Materials12.2%Computational Theory and Mathematics5.7%Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design5.2%other fields47.8%

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

  1. 1Computational Mechanics29% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials12% of their works
  3. 3Computational Theory and Mathematics6% of their works
  4. 4Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design5% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering3% 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, Radial Basis Functions, Discontinuous Galerkin Methods, Finite Element Methods, 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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Fluid-Structure Interaction372 topics
  2. Adaptive Mesh Refinement322 topics
  3. High-Order Schemes322 topics
  4. Radial Basis Functions262 topics
  5. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods201 topic
  6. Finite Element Methods201 topic
  7. Finite Elements171 topic
  8. NURBS171 topic
  9. Fracture141 topic
  10. Meshless Methods141 topic
  11. Shock-Wave Interactions121 topic
  12. Turbulence Modeling121 topic
  13. Delaunay Triangulations81 topic
  14. Mesh Generation81 topic
  15. Turbulent Flows81 topic
  16. Vortex Dynamics81 topic
  17. Heterogeneous71 topic
  18. Multiscale Methods71 topic
  19. Electromagnetics51 topic
  20. Finite-Difference Time-Domain51 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?

Science Explorer counts 163 works and 3,707 citations for Thomas J.R. Hughes, ranking #636 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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