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P. Väisänen

P. Väisänen publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

World rank
#1,086,390
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#3,667
of 5,570
Works
55
Citations
74
Citations per work
1.3

What does P. Väisänen research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 59.2%Instrumentation: 17.1%Computational Mechanics: 7.9%Aerospace Engineering: 2.6%other fields: 13.2%59%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics59.2%Instrumentation17.1%Computational Mechanics7.9%Aerospace Engineering2.6%other fields13.2%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics59% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation17% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P. Väisänen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Black Holes, Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, 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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Black Holes172 topics
  2. Star Formation172 topics
  3. Astronomical Instrumentation131 topic
  4. Spectrograph131 topic
  5. Accretion Disks122 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields122 topics
  7. Cosmology111 topic
  8. Galaxies111 topic
  9. Gravitational Waves112 topics
  10. Exoplanets91 topic
  11. Stellar Astrophysics91 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts81 topic
  13. Supernovae81 topic
  14. Event Horizon Telescope61 topic
  15. Molecular Clouds61 topic
  16. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  17. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  18. Protoplanetary Disks61 topic
  19. X-Ray Astronomy61 topic
  20. Binary Black Hole31 topic
  21. Neutron Star31 topic

Where does P. Väisänen work?

P. Väisänen's main affiliation in the publication record is South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does P. Väisänen have?

Science Explorer counts 55 works and 74 citations for P. Väisänen, ranking #1,086,390 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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