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Researcher · Leibniz University Hannover · Germany

Melanie Ast

Melanie Ast publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

ORCID 0000-0003-1911-1686 OpenAlex
World rank
#15,011
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#832
of 364,343
Works
86
Citations
58k
Citations per work
673.2
h-index
56
i10-index 68Top 4.5% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Melanie Ast

What does Melanie Ast research?

Melanie Ast's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (78%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (13%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 79 works · 92.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 67 works · 77.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 58 works · 68.0% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 5 works · 5.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 works · 4.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 works · 12.6% of their workOceanography: 6 works · 7.1% of their workGeophysics: 5 works · 5.5% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 2.0% of their workOcean Engineering: 2 works · 2.0% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMelanie Ast86works
Physical Sciences92%

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 Astronomy6777.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1112.6%
    3. Engineering22.0%
  2. Everything else77.6%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics68% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography7% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melanie Ast's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gravitational Waves, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Neutron Stars, Black Holes and X-Ray Astronomy.

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. Gravitational Waves1232 topics
  2. Binary Black Hole781 topic
  3. Neutron Star781 topic
  4. Supernovae612 topics
  5. Gamma-Ray Bursts451 topic
  6. Neutron Stars451 topic
  7. Black Holes261 topic
  8. X-Ray Astronomy261 topic
  9. GRACE171 topic
  10. Sea Level Rise171 topic
  11. Cosmological Parameters161 topic
  12. Dark Energy161 topic
  13. High-Energy Astrophysics111 topic
  14. Particle Acceleration111 topic
  15. Epoch of Reionization71 topic
  16. Radio Astronomy71 topic
  17. Seismic Noise61 topic
  18. Tomography61 topic

Where does Melanie Ast work?

Melanie Ast's main affiliation in the publication record is Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Melanie Ast have?

OpenAlex counts 86 works and 57,897 citations for Melanie Ast, an h-index of 56, ranking #15,011 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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