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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.

World rank
#967,593
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#56,351
of 86,443
Works
26
Citations
82
Citations per work
3.2

What does Hans-Walter Rix research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 51.2%Instrumentation: 31.7%Computational Mechanics: 7.3%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4.9%other fields: 4.9%51%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics51.2%Instrumentation31.7%Computational Mechanics7.3%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4.9%other fields4.9%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics51% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation32% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics7% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  5. 5Archeology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hans-Walter Rix's research?

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

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation131 topic
  2. Spectrograph131 topic
  3. Exoplanets91 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  5. Star Formation62 topics
  6. Black Holes52 topics
  7. Cosmology41 topic
  8. Galaxies41 topic
  9. Accretion Disks32 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields32 topics
  11. Optical 3D Laser Measurement31 topic
  12. Position-Sensitive Detector31 topic
  13. Adaptive Optics21 topic
  14. Molecular Clouds21 topic
  15. Protoplanetary Disks21 topic
  16. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  17. Terrestrial Planets21 topic
  18. Wavefront Sensing21 topic
  19. Event Horizon Telescope11 topic
  20. X-Ray Astronomy11 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?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 82 citations for Hans-Walter Rix, ranking #967,593 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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