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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research · Germany

Klaus Kern

Klaus Kern publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Surface and Thin Film Phenomena, Graphene research and applications and Quantum and electron transport phenomena.

ORCID 0000-0002-1785-7874 OpenAlex
World rank
#66,570
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#3,731
of 364,343
Works
760
Citations
46k
Citations per work
60.6
h-index
106
i10-index 515Top 0.1% in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Klaus Kern

What does Klaus Kern research?

Klaus Kern's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (39%), Engineering (22%), Materials Science (20%).

Physical Sciences: 614 works · 80.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 299 works · 39.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 254 works · 33.4% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 45 works · 5.9% of their workEngineering: 166 works · 21.9% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 100 works · 13.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 67 works · 8.8% of their workMaterials Science: 149 works · 19.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 128 works · 16.9% of their workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 21 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 146 works · 19.2% of their workTHEIR WORKKlaus Kern760works
Physical Sciences81%

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 Astronomy29939.3%
    2. Engineering16621.9%
    3. Materials Science14919.6%
  2. Everything else14619.2%
  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics33% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry17% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering9% of their works
  5. 5Condensed Matter Physics6% of their works
  6. 6Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Klaus Kern's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Spintronics, Electronic Structure Calculations, Quantum Size Effects, Superconductivity, Graphene, Two-Dimensional Materials, Electron Spin and Semiconductor Quantum Dots.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Spintronics1932 topics
  2. Electronic Structure Calculations1812 topics
  3. Quantum Size Effects1421 topic
  4. Superconductivity1421 topic
  5. Graphene1301 topic
  6. Two-Dimensional Materials1301 topic
  7. Electron Spin1281 topic
  8. Semiconductor Quantum Dots1281 topic
  9. Molecular Electronics1251 topic
  10. Self-Assembled Monolayers1251 topic
  11. Density Functional Theory1121 topic
  12. Dispersion Correction1121 topic
  13. Cuprate Superconductors691 topic
  14. High-Temperature Superconductivity691 topic
  15. Magnetic Tunnel Junctions651 topic
  16. Skyrmions651 topic
  17. Carbon631 topic
  18. Nanotubes631 topic

Where does Klaus Kern work?

Klaus Kern's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Klaus Kern have?

OpenAlex counts 760 works and 46,086 citations for Klaus Kern, an h-index of 106, ranking #66,570 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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