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Researcher · Heidelberg University · Germany

Dylan Nelson

Dylan Nelson publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-8421-5890 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,324
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#244
of 364,343
Works
360
Citations
34k
Citations per work
95.1
h-index
73
i10-index 188Top 2.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Dylan Nelson

What does Dylan Nelson research?

Dylan Nelson's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (84%), Environmental Science (2%), Computer Science (1%).

Physical Sciences: 316 works · 87.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 303 works · 84.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 210 works · 58.4% of their workInstrumentation: 59 works · 16.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 29 works · 8.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 works · 1.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 2.4% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 works · 2.4% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 1.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 4 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 44 works · 12.1% of their workTHEIR WORKDylan Nelson360works
Physical Sciences88%

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 Astronomy30384.3%
    2. Environmental Science92.4%
    3. Computer Science41.2%
  2. Everything else4412.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation16% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change2% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dylan Nelson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation3602 topics
  2. Black Holes3302 topics
  3. Cosmology2811 topic
  4. Galaxies2811 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation1641 topic
  6. Spectrograph1641 topic
  7. Accretion Disks1282 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields1282 topics
  9. Molecular Clouds791 topic
  10. Protoplanetary Disks791 topic
  11. Exoplanets661 topic
  12. Stellar Astrophysics661 topic
  13. Supernovae642 topics
  14. High-Energy Astrophysics611 topic
  15. Particle Acceleration611 topic
  16. Event Horizon Telescope491 topic
  17. X-Ray Astronomy491 topic
  18. Gamma-Ray Bursts331 topic
  19. Neutron Stars331 topic
  20. Cosmological Parameters311 topic
  21. Dark Energy311 topic

Where does Dylan Nelson work?

Dylan Nelson's main affiliation in the publication record is Heidelberg University, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Dylan Nelson have?

OpenAlex counts 360 works and 34,246 citations for Dylan Nelson, an h-index of 73, ranking #6,324 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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