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Researcher · South African Radio Astronomy Observatory · South Africa

F. van Wyk

F. van Wyk publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Instrumentation, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,327,817
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#4,529
of 5,570
Works
20
Citations
34
Citations per work
1.7

What does F. van Wyk research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 58.3%Computational Mechanics: 16.7%Instrumentation: 16.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 4.2%other fields: 4.1%58%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics58.3%Computational Mechanics16.7%Instrumentation16.7%Nuclear and High Energy Physics4.2%other fields4.1%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics17% of their works
  3. 3Instrumentation17% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe F. van Wyk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Astronomical Instrumentation, Black Holes, Optical 3D Laser Measurement and Position-Sensitive Detector.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets61 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics61 topic
  3. Accretion Disks52 topics
  4. Magnetic Fields52 topics
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  6. Black Holes42 topics
  7. Optical 3D Laser Measurement41 topic
  8. Position-Sensitive Detector41 topic
  9. Spectrograph41 topic
  10. Event Horizon Telescope31 topic
  11. Star Formation32 topics
  12. X-Ray Astronomy31 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts21 topic
  14. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  15. Protoplanetary Disks21 topic
  16. Supernovae21 topic
  17. Adaptive Optics11 topic
  18. Cosmology11 topic
  19. Galaxies11 topic
  20. Wavefront Sensing11 topic

Where does F. van Wyk work?

F. van Wyk's main affiliation in the publication record is South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does F. van Wyk have?

Science Explorer counts 20 works and 34 citations for F. van Wyk, ranking #1,327,817 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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