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Christian Rau

Christian Rau publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

World rank
#406,863
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#24,300
of 86,443
Works
21
Citations
152
Citations per work
7.2

What does Christian Rau research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 34.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 21.1%Instrumentation: 21.1%Radiation: 5.3%other fields: 18.3%34%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics34.2%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics21.1%Instrumentation21.1%Radiation5.3%other fields18.3%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics34% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics21% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation21% of their works
  4. 4Radiation5% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics3% of their works
  6. 6Structural Biology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christian Rau's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Adaptive Optics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Wavefront Sensing, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets81 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics81 topic
  3. Adaptive Optics71 topic
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation71 topic
  5. Spectrograph71 topic
  6. Wavefront Sensing71 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  8. Star Formation31 topic
  9. Tomography32 topics
  10. Phase Retrieval21 topic
  11. X-ray Imaging21 topic
  12. Cryo-Electron Microscopy11 topic
  13. Crystal Structure Prediction11 topic
  14. Mantle Dynamics11 topic
  15. Molecular Structure11 topic
  16. Rotational Spectroscopy11 topic
  17. Single-Particle Analysis11 topic

Where does Christian Rau work?

Christian Rau's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Christian Rau have?

Science Explorer counts 21 works and 152 citations for Christian Rau, ranking #406,863 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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