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Researcher · Physical Sciences (United States) · United States

W.S. Astar

W.S. Astar publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Photonic Communication Systems and Photonic and Optical Devices.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,406,067
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,514,109
of 1,627,098
Works
40
Citations
332
Citations per work
8.3
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 47% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
W.S. Astar

What does W.S. Astar research?

W.S. Astar's work is mostly in Engineering (80%), Physics and Astronomy (15%), Mathematics (2%).

Physical Sciences: 39 works · 98.1% of their workEngineering: 32 works · 80.0% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 32 works · 80.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 works · 15.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 works · 11.8% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 works · 3.6% of their workMathematics: 1 works · 1.8% of their workGeometry and Topology: 0 works · 0.9% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 works · 0.9% of their workMaterials Science: 0 works · 0.9% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 works · 0.9% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 1.9% of their workTHEIR WORKW.S. Astar40works
Physical Sciences98%

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. Engineering3280.0%
    2. Physics and Astronomy615.4%
    3. Mathematics11.8%
    4. Materials Science00.9%
  2. Everything else11.9%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering80% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics12% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology1% of their works
  5. 5Theoretical Computer Science1% of their works
  6. 6Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W.S. Astar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optical Fiber, Coherent Detection, Digital Signal Processing, Microwave Photonics, Optical Access Networks, Photonic Signal Processing, Optical Modulators and Silicon Photonics.

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. Optical Fiber362 topics
  2. Coherent Detection331 topic
  3. Digital Signal Processing331 topic
  4. Microwave Photonics322 topics
  5. Optical Access Networks211 topic
  6. Photonic Signal Processing211 topic
  7. Optical Modulators191 topic
  8. Silicon Photonics191 topic
  9. Fiber Lasers162 topics
  10. Nonlinear Optics162 topics
  11. Optical Frequency Combs111 topic
  12. Ultrafast Lasers111 topic
  13. Elastic Optical Networks51 topic
  14. High-Power Laser51 topic
  15. Optical Networks51 topic
  16. Supercontinuum Generation51 topic
  17. Cantorian-Fractal31 topic
  18. E-Infinity Theory31 topic
  19. Fiber Optic Sensors31 topic
  20. Sensor Technology31 topic

Where does W.S. Astar work?

W.S. Astar's main affiliation in the publication record is Physical Sciences (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does W.S. Astar have?

OpenAlex counts 40 works and 332 citations for W.S. Astar, an h-index of 11, ranking #6,406,067 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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