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J. van Zyl

J. van Zyl publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques and Cryospheric studies and observations.

World rank
#305,264
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#114,687
of 358,040
Works
15
Citations
313
Citations per work
20.9

What does J. van Zyl research?

Aerospace Engineering: 25.0%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 20.8%Environmental Engineering: 16.7%Atmospheric Science: 12.5%other fields: 25.0%25%top field
Aerospace Engineering25.0%Astronomy and Astrophysics20.8%Environmental Engineering16.7%Atmospheric Science12.5%other fields25.0%

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

  1. 1Aerospace Engineering25% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics21% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering17% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science12% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography8% of their works
  6. 6Instrumentation4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. van Zyl's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydrological Modeling, Remote Sensing, Validation, Climate Change, Satellite Observations, Sea Level Rise, Soil Moisture and SAR Interferometry.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Hydrological Modeling73 topics
  2. Remote Sensing62 topics
  3. Validation52 topics
  4. Climate Change42 topics
  5. Satellite Observations41 topic
  6. Sea Level Rise42 topics
  7. Soil Moisture41 topic
  8. SAR Interferometry31 topic
  9. Surface Deformation Monitoring31 topic
  10. GRACE21 topic
  11. Glacier21 topic
  12. Mars21 topic
  13. Martian Surface21 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances21 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets21 topic
  16. Water Availability21 topic
  17. groundwater depletion21 topic
  18. On-Orbit Performance11 topic
  19. Precipitation11 topic
  20. Radiometric Calibration11 topic
  21. Satellite11 topic

Where does J. van Zyl work?

J. van Zyl's main affiliation in the publication record is Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does J. van Zyl have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 313 citations for J. van Zyl, ranking #305,264 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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