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Ortwin Gerhard

Ortwin Gerhard publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

World rank
#97,793
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#6,276
of 86,443
Works
123
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
10.4

What does Ortwin Gerhard research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 66.2%Instrumentation: 22.7%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 1.5%other fields: 7.6%66%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics66.2%Instrumentation22.7%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2.0%Nuclear and High Energy Physics1.5%other fields7.6%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics66% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation23% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  5. 5Control and Systems Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ortwin Gerhard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Black Holes, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, 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. Star Formation562 topics
  2. Exoplanets531 topic
  3. Stellar Astrophysics531 topic
  4. Black Holes522 topics
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation451 topic
  6. Spectrograph451 topic
  7. Cosmology441 topic
  8. Galaxies441 topic
  9. Accretion Disks202 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields202 topics
  11. Molecular Clouds121 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks121 topic
  13. Event Horizon Telescope81 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy81 topic
  15. Cosmological Parameters41 topic
  16. Dark Energy41 topic
  17. Optics41 topic
  18. Solar System Abundances41 topic
  19. Spectroscopy41 topic
  20. Terrestrial Planets41 topic

Where does Ortwin Gerhard work?

Ortwin Gerhard's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Ortwin Gerhard have?

Science Explorer counts 123 works and 1,277 citations for Ortwin Gerhard, ranking #97,793 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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