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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Astronomy · Germany

Hans‐Walter Rix

Hans‐Walter Rix publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0003-4996-9069 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,497
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#87
of 364,343
Works
997
Citations
106k
Citations per work
106.6
h-index
153
i10-index 541Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hans‐Walter Rix

What does Hans‐Walter Rix research?

Hans‐Walter Rix's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (90%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 934 works · 93.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 895 works · 89.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 616 works · 61.8% of their workInstrumentation: 223 works · 22.4% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 25 works · 2.5% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 17 works · 1.7% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 14 works · 1.4% of their workEngineering: 39 works · 3.9% of their workComputational Mechanics: 39 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 63 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKHans‐Walter Rix997works
Physical Sciences94%

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 Astronomy89589.8%
    2. Engineering393.9%
  2. Everything else636.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics62% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hans‐Walter Rix's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Black Holes, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Cosmology and Galaxies.

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 Formation6852 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation6221 topic
  3. Spectrograph6221 topic
  4. Black Holes6132 topics
  5. Exoplanets5501 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics5501 topic
  7. Cosmology4871 topic
  8. Galaxies4871 topic
  9. Accretion Disks3242 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields3242 topics
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts2121 topic
  12. Supernovae2121 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds1981 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks1981 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope1261 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy1261 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement1081 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector1081 topic
  19. Adaptive Optics651 topic
  20. Wavefront Sensing651 topic

Where does Hans‐Walter Rix work?

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

How many publications and citations does Hans‐Walter Rix have?

OpenAlex counts 997 works and 106,262 citations for Hans‐Walter Rix, an h-index of 153, ranking #2,497 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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