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Researcher · North-West University · South Africa

D. J. van der Walt

D. J. van der Walt publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Spectroscopy, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0001-6666-6866 OpenAlex
World rank
#710,300
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,306
of 5,570
Works
27
Citations
90
Citations per work
3.3

What does D. J. van der Walt research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 40.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 17.1%Spectroscopy: 11.4%Instrumentation: 5.7%other fields: 25.8%40%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics40.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics17.1%Spectroscopy11.4%Instrumentation5.7%other fields25.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics40% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics17% of their works
  3. 3Spectroscopy11% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation6% of their works
  5. 5Physical and Theoretical Chemistry3% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe D. J. van der Walt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Exoplanets, High-Energy Astrophysics, Molecular Clouds, Particle Acceleration, Star Formation 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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Cosmic Rays62 topics
  2. Neutrinos62 topics
  3. Exoplanets41 topic
  4. High-Energy Astrophysics41 topic
  5. Molecular Clouds41 topic
  6. Particle Acceleration41 topic
  7. Star Formation41 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics41 topic
  9. Gamma-Ray Bursts31 topic
  10. Molecular Structure31 topic
  11. Rotational Spectroscopy31 topic
  12. Supernovae31 topic
  13. Astronomical Instrumentation21 topic
  14. Axions21 topic
  15. Dark Matter21 topic
  16. Spectrograph21 topic
  17. Distance Measurements11 topic
  18. Electron Spin Resonance11 topic

Where does D. J. van der Walt work?

D. J. van der Walt's main affiliation in the publication record is North-West University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does D. J. van der Walt have?

Science Explorer counts 27 works and 90 citations for D. J. van der Walt, ranking #710,300 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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