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Researcher · Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam · Germany

Matthias Steinmetz

Matthias Steinmetz 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 0000-0001-6516-7459 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,782
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#813
of 364,343
Works
538
Citations
53k
Citations per work
99.4
h-index
99
i10-index 270Top 0.6% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Matthias Steinmetz

What does Matthias Steinmetz research?

Matthias Steinmetz's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (85%), Engineering (5%).

Physical Sciences: 487 works · 90.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 460 works · 85.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 309 works · 57.5% of their workInstrumentation: 107 works · 19.8% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 21 works · 3.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 12 works · 2.3% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 11 works · 2.0% of their workEngineering: 27 works · 5.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 27 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 9.5% of their workTHEIR WORKMatthiasSteinmetz538works
Physical Sciences90%

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 Astronomy46085.5%
    2. Engineering275.0%
  2. Everything else519.5%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation20% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Matthias Steinmetz's research?

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

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation3252 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation2951 topic
  3. Spectrograph2951 topic
  4. Exoplanets2721 topic
  5. Stellar Astrophysics2721 topic
  6. Cosmology2011 topic
  7. Galaxies2011 topic
  8. Molecular Clouds1241 topic
  9. Protoplanetary Disks1241 topic
  10. Gamma-Ray Bursts821 topic
  11. Supernovae821 topic
  12. Optical 3D Laser Measurement651 topic
  13. Position-Sensitive Detector651 topic
  14. Epoch of Reionization451 topic
  15. Radio Astronomy451 topic
  16. High-Energy Astrophysics401 topic
  17. Particle Acceleration401 topic

Where does Matthias Steinmetz work?

Matthias Steinmetz's main affiliation in the publication record is Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Matthias Steinmetz have?

OpenAlex counts 538 works and 53,484 citations for Matthias Steinmetz, an h-index of 99, ranking #14,782 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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