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Researcher · Technische Hochschule Mannheim · Germany

Gerhard Rufa

Gerhard Rufa publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Physics and Engineering Research Articles, Mobile Agent-Based Network Management and IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,851,436
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#249,058
of 364,343
Works
45
Citations
65
Citations per work
1.4
h-index
4
i10-index 3Top 92% in Computer Networks and Communications
Gerhard Rufa

What does Gerhard Rufa research?

Gerhard Rufa's work is mostly in Engineering (29%), Computer Science (22%), Physics and Astronomy (16%).

Physical Sciences: 30 works · 66.7% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 29.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 works · 15.1% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 14.0% of their workComputer Science: 10 works · 21.5% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 10 works · 21.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 works · 16.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 works · 7.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 4.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 33.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGerhard Rufa45works
Physical Sciences67%

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. Engineering1329.1%
    2. Computer Science1021.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy716.1%
  2. Everything else1533.3%
  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications22% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics14% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerhard Rufa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fluid Dynamics, Renewable Energy, Security, Mobile Agents, Network Management, Handoff Decision Algorithms, Mobility Support and Experimental Tools.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Fluid Dynamics121 topic
  2. Renewable Energy121 topic
  3. Security112 topics
  4. Mobile Agents91 topic
  5. Network Management91 topic
  6. Handoff Decision Algorithms81 topic
  7. Mobility Support81 topic
  8. Experimental Tools51 topic
  9. Smartphones51 topic
  10. Network Virtualization41 topic
  11. Software-Defined Networking41 topic
  12. Automotive Engineering31 topic
  13. Congestion Control31 topic
  14. Lightweight Materials31 topic
  15. TCP31 topic
  16. Data Communications21 topic
  17. Networking21 topic

Where does Gerhard Rufa work?

Gerhard Rufa's main affiliation in the publication record is Technische Hochschule Mannheim, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Gerhard Rufa have?

OpenAlex counts 45 works and 65 citations for Gerhard Rufa, an h-index of 4, ranking #4,851,436 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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