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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Astronomy · Germany

Fabian Walter

Fabian Walter publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0003-4793-7880 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,157
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#1,588
of 364,343
Works
1,179
Citations
56k
Citations per work
47.6
h-index
118
i10-index 456Top 0.2% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Fabian Walter

What does Fabian Walter research?

Fabian Walter's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (80%), Engineering (3%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2%).

Physical Sciences: 1,005 works · 85.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 948 works · 80.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 743 works · 63.0% of their workInstrumentation: 150 works · 12.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 37 works · 3.1% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 19 works · 1.6% of their workEngineering: 38 works · 3.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 38 works · 3.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 works · 1.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 19 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 174 works · 14.8% of their workTHEIR WORKFabian Walter1,179works
Physical Sciences85%

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 Astronomy94880.4%
    2. Engineering383.2%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences191.6%
  2. Everything else17414.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics63% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation13% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fabian Walter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Cosmology, Galaxies, Molecular Clouds and Protoplanetary Disks.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation1,1722 topics
  2. Black Holes8732 topics
  3. Accretion Disks6912 topics
  4. Magnetic Fields6912 topics
  5. Cosmology6771 topic
  6. Galaxies6771 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds4951 topic
  8. Protoplanetary Disks4951 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation4251 topic
  10. Spectrograph4251 topic
  11. Exoplanets4011 topic
  12. Stellar Astrophysics4011 topic
  13. Event Horizon Telescope1961 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy1961 topic
  15. Gamma-Ray Bursts1381 topic
  16. Supernovae1381 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement1021 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector1021 topic
  19. High-Energy Astrophysics741 topic
  20. Particle Acceleration741 topic

Where does Fabian Walter work?

Fabian Walter's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Fabian Walter have?

OpenAlex counts 1,179 works and 56,103 citations for Fabian Walter, an h-index of 118, ranking #27,157 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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