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Researcher · iThemba Laboratory · South Africa

Frederik van Niekerk

Frederik van Niekerk publishes mostly in Radiation, Materials Chemistry and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Nuclear Physics and Applications, Nuclear reactor physics and engineering and Nuclear Materials and Properties.

ORCID 0000-0002-3425-8507 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,615,673
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#15,782
of 29,826
Works
20
Citations
60
Citations per work
3.0
h-index
5
i10-index 2Top 86% in Radiation
Frederik van Niekerk

What does Frederik van Niekerk research?

Frederik van Niekerk's work is mostly in Engineering (20%), Physics and Astronomy (18%), Materials Science (15%).

Physical Sciences: 11 works · 53.8% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 20.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 2 works · 9.3% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 works · 5.6% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 works · 5.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 18.5% of their workRadiation: 4 works · 18.5% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 14.8% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 14.8% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 40.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 5.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 5.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKFrederik vanNiekerk20works
Physical Sciences54%Social 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. Engineering420.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy418.5%
    3. Materials Science314.8%
  2. Everything else840.6%
    1. Arts and Humanities15.6%
  1. 1Radiation18% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry15% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality6% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frederik van Niekerk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neutron Imaging, Small-Angle Scattering, Accident Tolerant Fuels, Fuel Cladding, Molten Salt, Nuclear Reactor, Health Effects and Inorganic Scintillators.

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. Neutron Imaging61 topic
  2. Small-Angle Scattering61 topic
  3. Accident Tolerant Fuels51 topic
  4. Fuel Cladding51 topic
  5. Molten Salt51 topic
  6. Nuclear Reactor51 topic
  7. Health Effects42 topics
  8. Inorganic Scintillators41 topic
  9. Radionuclides42 topics
  10. Scintillation Detectors41 topic
  11. Nuclear Fuel31 topic
  12. Radiation Protection31 topic
  13. Fukushima Daiichi21 topic
  14. Ionizing Radiation21 topic
  15. Radon21 topic
  16. fusion materials21 topic
  17. nuclear accident21 topic
  18. radiation damage21 topic

Where does Frederik van Niekerk work?

Frederik van Niekerk's main affiliation in the publication record is iThemba Laboratory, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Frederik van Niekerk have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 60 citations for Frederik van Niekerk, an h-index of 5, ranking #3,615,673 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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