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Researcher · iThemba Laboratory · South Africa

Dirk T. Fourie

Dirk T. Fourie publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Radiation and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Particle accelerators and beam dynamics, Nuclear Physics and Applications and Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,061,706
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#13,215
of 29,826
Works
28
Citations
190
Citations per work
6.8
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 45% in Aerospace Engineering
Dirk T. Fourie

What does Dirk T. Fourie research?

Dirk T. Fourie's work is mostly in Engineering (43%), Physics and Astronomy (32%), Medicine (6%).

Physical Sciences: 21 works · 74.7% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 43.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 7 works · 25.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 11.4% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 6.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 works · 31.7% of their workRadiation: 7 works · 24.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 works · 7.6% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 19.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 6.3% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 6.3% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKDirk T. Fourie28works
Physical Sciences75%Health Sciences6%

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. Engineering1243.0%
    2. Physics and Astronomy931.7%
  2. Everything else519.0%
    1. Medicine26.3%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering25% of their works
  2. 2Radiation24% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics8% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk T. Fourie's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Negative Ion Sources, Superconducting Cavities, Neutron Imaging, Small-Angle Scattering, Free-Electron Lasers, X-Ray, Particle Therapy and Proton Therapy.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Negative Ion Sources181 topic
  2. Superconducting Cavities181 topic
  3. Neutron Imaging131 topic
  4. Small-Angle Scattering131 topic
  5. Free-Electron Lasers71 topic
  6. X-Ray71 topic
  7. Particle Therapy51 topic
  8. Proton Therapy51 topic
  9. Nb3Sn Conductor41 topic
  10. Superconducting Magnets41 topic
  11. Spectroscopy31 topic
  12. X-ray Absorption31 topic
  13. DNA Strand Breaks21 topic
  14. Low-Energy Electrons21 topic
  15. Plasma Etching21 topic
  16. Semiconductor Industry21 topic

Where does Dirk T. Fourie work?

Dirk T. Fourie's main affiliation in the publication record is iThemba Laboratory, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Dirk T. Fourie have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 190 citations for Dirk T. Fourie, an h-index of 7, ranking #3,061,706 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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