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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Astronomy · Germany

Arjen van der Wel

Arjen van der Wel publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-5027-0135 OpenAlex
World rank
#32,434
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#1,903
of 364,343
Works
340
Citations
23k
Citations per work
68.7
h-index
78
i10-index 166Top 1.7% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Arjen van der Wel

What does Arjen van der Wel research?

Arjen van der Wel's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (85%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 307 works · 90.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 289 works · 85.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 187 works · 54.9% of their workInstrumentation: 89 works · 26.2% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7 works · 2.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6 works · 1.8% of their workEngineering: 18 works · 5.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 10 works · 2.9% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 9.8% of their workTHEIR WORKArjen van der Wel340works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy28985.0%
    2. Engineering185.2%
  2. Everything else339.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics55% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation26% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Arjen van der Wel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

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. Star Formation3212 topics
  2. Black Holes2952 topics
  3. Cosmology2691 topic
  4. Galaxies2691 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation2611 topic
  6. Spectrograph2611 topic
  7. Exoplanets1161 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics1161 topic
  9. Accretion Disks782 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields782 topics
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts561 topic
  12. Supernovae561 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds521 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks521 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement281 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector281 topic
  17. Event Horizon Telescope261 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy261 topic
  19. Adaptive Optics211 topic
  20. Wavefront Sensing211 topic

Where does Arjen van der Wel work?

Arjen van der Wel's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Arjen van der Wel have?

OpenAlex counts 340 works and 23,353 citations for Arjen van der Wel, an h-index of 78, ranking #32,434 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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