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Tom Herbst

Tom Herbst publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Optical Systems and Laser Technology and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

World rank
#195,818
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#11,958
of 86,443
Works
47
Citations
122
Citations per work
2.6

What does Tom Herbst research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 26.0%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 16.0%Aerospace Engineering: 14.0%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 14.0%other fields: 30.0%26%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics26.0%Electrical and Electronic Engineering16.0%Aerospace Engineering14.0%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics14.0%other fields30.0%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics26% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering16% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics14% of their works
  5. 5Instrumentation10% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tom Herbst's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Astronomical Instrumentation, Laser, Semiconductor, Spectrograph, On-Orbit Performance and Optical 3D Laser Measurement.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Adaptive Optics71 topic
  2. Wavefront Sensing71 topic
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation51 topic
  4. Laser51 topic
  5. Semiconductor51 topic
  6. Spectrograph51 topic
  7. On-Orbit Performance41 topic
  8. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  9. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  10. Radiometric Calibration41 topic
  11. Exoplanets31 topic
  12. Solar System Abundances31 topic
  13. Stellar Astrophysics31 topic
  14. Terrestrial Planets31 topic
  15. Compound Eyes21 topic
  16. Freeform Optics21 topic

Where does Tom Herbst work?

Tom Herbst's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Tom Herbst have?

Science Explorer counts 47 works and 122 citations for Tom Herbst, ranking #195,818 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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