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Researcher · University of California, Santa Barbara · United States

Thomas William Barrett

Thomas William Barrett publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, History and Philosophy of Science and Theoretical Computer Science, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Relativity and Gravitational Theory and History and Theory of Mathematics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#766,004
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#256,719
of 1,627,098
Works
25
Citations
674
Citations per work
27.0
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 52% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Thomas William Barrett

What does Thomas William Barrett research?

Thomas William Barrett's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (35%), Mathematics (27%), Arts and Humanities (16%).

Physical Sciences: 15 works · 61.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 works · 34.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 works · 20.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 8.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 works · 6.7% of their workMathematics: 7 works · 26.6% of their workGeometry and Topology: 3 works · 13.3% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 3 works · 13.3% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 22.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 16.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 16.0% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 works · 16.0% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas WilliamBarrett25works
Physical Sciences61%Social Sciences16%

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 Astronomy934.7%
    2. Mathematics726.6%
  2. Everything else622.7%
    1. Arts and Humanities416.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics20% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science16% of their works
  3. 3Theoretical Computer Science13% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology13% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas William Barrett's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Relativity, Quantum Gravity, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, General Covariance, Unified Field Theories, Historical Sources and Mathematics Education.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Relativity192 topics
  2. Quantum Gravity142 topics
  3. Evolutionary Synthesis121 topic
  4. Mechanistic Explanation121 topic
  5. General Covariance111 topic
  6. Unified Field Theories111 topic
  7. Historical Sources101 topic
  8. Mathematics Education101 topic
  9. Geometry81 topic
  10. Hyperbolic81 topic
  11. Bell Inequality51 topic
  12. Decoherence51 topic
  13. Modal Logic52 topics
  14. Consciousness31 topic
  15. Lorentz Violation31 topic
  16. Noncommutative Field Theory31 topic
  17. Phenomenal Experience31 topic
  18. Answer Set Programming21 topic
  19. Knowledge Representation21 topic

Where does Thomas William Barrett work?

Thomas William Barrett's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas William Barrett have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 674 citations for Thomas William Barrett, an h-index of 11, ranking #766,004 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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