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Researcher · Royal Observatory · United Kingdom

Thomas Little Heath

Thomas Little Heath publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Anthropology and Theoretical Computer Science, on topics such as History and Theory of Mathematics, Classical Antiquity Studies and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,961,489
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#202,644
of 367,258
Works
159
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
9.3
h-index
15
i10-index 16Top 39% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Thomas Little Heath

What does Thomas Little Heath research?

Thomas Little Heath's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (20%), Physics and Astronomy (9%), Social Sciences (8%).

Everything else: 90 works · 56.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 43 works · 27.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 31 works · 19.5% of their workArcheology: 11 works · 7.1% of their workHistory: 10 works · 6.2% of their workPhilosophy: 10 works · 6.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 7.7% of their workAnthropology: 12 works · 7.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 26 works · 16.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 15 works · 9.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 15 works · 9.2% of their workMathematics: 11 works · 7.1% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 11 works · 7.1% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas LittleHeath159works
Physical Sciences16%Social Sciences27%

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 else9056.5%
    1. Arts and Humanities3119.5%
    2. Social Sciences127.7%
    1. Physics and Astronomy159.2%
    2. Mathematics117.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics9% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology8% of their works
  3. 3Theoretical Computer Science7% of their works
  4. 4Archeology7% of their works
  5. 5History6% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Little Heath's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Historical Sources, Mathematics Education, Ancient Rome, Greek Literature, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Aristotle and Health Claims.

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. Historical Sources241 topic
  2. Mathematics Education241 topic
  3. Ancient Rome191 topic
  4. Greek Literature191 topic
  5. Antikythera Mechanism171 topic
  6. Astronomical Calculator171 topic
  7. Aristotle131 topic
  8. Health Claims131 topic
  9. Plato131 topic
  10. scientific opinion131 topic
  11. Musical Theory111 topic
  12. Musicology111 topic
  13. Italian Renaissance101 topic
  14. Radio Astronomy101 topic
  15. Renaissance Florence101 topic
  16. Transits of Venus101 topic

Where does Thomas Little Heath work?

Thomas Little Heath's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Observatory, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Little Heath have?

OpenAlex counts 159 works and 1,485 citations for Thomas Little Heath, an h-index of 15, ranking #2,961,489 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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