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Gunther Witzel

Gunther Witzel publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

World rank
#487,856
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#28,998
of 86,443
Works
37
Citations
139
Citations per work
3.8

What does Gunther Witzel research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 58.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 9.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9.8%Instrumentation: 7.8%other fields: 13.8%59%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics58.8%Nuclear and High Energy Physics9.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9.8%Instrumentation7.8%other fields13.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics59% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics10% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation8% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gunther Witzel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Black Holes, X-Ray Astronomy, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Adaptive Optics and High-Energy Astrophysics.

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. Accretion Disks122 topics
  2. Magnetic Fields122 topics
  3. Black Holes91 topic
  4. X-Ray Astronomy91 topic
  5. Exoplanets61 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics61 topic
  7. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  8. High-Energy Astrophysics51 topic
  9. Particle Acceleration51 topic
  10. Wavefront Sensing51 topic
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation41 topic
  12. Spectrograph41 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds31 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  16. Radio Astronomy31 topic
  17. Star Formation31 topic
  18. Transits of Venus31 topic

Where does Gunther Witzel work?

Gunther Witzel's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Gunther Witzel have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 139 citations for Gunther Witzel, ranking #487,856 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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