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Researcher · North-West University · South Africa

Christo Venter

Christo Venter publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography, on topics such as Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-2666-4812 OpenAlex
World rank
#49,005
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#111
of 29,826
Works
455
Citations
25k
Citations per work
55.1
h-index
82
i10-index 239Top 1.4% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Christo Venter

What does Christo Venter research?

Christo Venter's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (88%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 428 works · 94.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 401 works · 88.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 234 works · 51.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 167 works · 36.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15 works · 3.2% of their workOceanography: 10 works · 2.3% of their workGeophysics: 4 works · 0.9% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 2.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 works · 1.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 5 works · 1.1% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 6.0% of their workTHEIR WORKChristo Venter455works
Physical Sciences94%

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 Astronomy40188.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences153.2%
    3. Engineering122.6%
  2. Everything else276.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics37% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography2% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics1% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christo Venter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Gravitational Waves, High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Acceleration, Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Neutron Stars.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Cosmic Rays4122 topics
  2. Neutrinos4122 topics
  3. Gravitational Waves4092 topics
  4. High-Energy Astrophysics3181 topic
  5. Particle Acceleration3181 topic
  6. Supernovae2592 topics
  7. Gamma-Ray Bursts2301 topic
  8. Neutron Stars2301 topic
  9. Galactic Center2282 topics
  10. Binary Black Hole1791 topic
  11. Neutron Star1791 topic
  12. Black Holes1341 topic
  13. X-Ray Astronomy1341 topic
  14. Axions941 topic
  15. Dark Matter941 topic
  16. Epoch of Reionization551 topic
  17. Radio Astronomy551 topic
  18. GRACE301 topic
  19. Sea Level Rise301 topic
  20. Cosmological Parameters291 topic
  21. Dark Energy291 topic

Where does Christo Venter work?

Christo Venter's main affiliation in the publication record is North-West University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Christo Venter have?

OpenAlex counts 455 works and 25,090 citations for Christo Venter, an h-index of 82, ranking #49,005 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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