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Researcher · Yale University · United States

Pieter van Dokkum

Pieter van Dokkum publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-8282-9888 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,951
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,048
of 1,627,098
Works
652
Citations
42k
Citations per work
63.8
h-index
112
i10-index 324Top 0.3% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Pieter van Dokkum

What does Pieter van Dokkum research?

Pieter van Dokkum's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (87%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 595 works · 91.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 568 works · 87.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 370 works · 56.7% of their workInstrumentation: 162 works · 24.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 21 works · 3.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 15 works · 2.3% of their workEngineering: 27 works · 4.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 18 works · 2.7% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 10 works · 1.5% of their workEverything else: 57 works · 8.7% of their workTHEIR WORKPieter van Dokkum652works
Physical Sciences91%

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 Astronomy56887.1%
    2. Engineering274.2%
  2. Everything else578.7%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation25% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pieter van Dokkum's research?

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

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation5522 topics
  2. Black Holes5242 topics
  3. Cosmology4691 topic
  4. Galaxies4691 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation4591 topic
  6. Spectrograph4591 topic
  7. Exoplanets2631 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics2631 topic
  9. Accretion Disks1382 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields1382 topics
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts1181 topic
  12. Supernovae1181 topic
  13. Molecular Clouds831 topic
  14. Protoplanetary Disks831 topic
  15. Adaptive Optics561 topic
  16. Wavefront Sensing561 topic
  17. Event Horizon Telescope551 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy551 topic
  19. Optical 3D Laser Measurement491 topic
  20. Position-Sensitive Detector491 topic

Where does Pieter van Dokkum work?

Pieter van Dokkum's main affiliation in the publication record is Yale University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Pieter van Dokkum have?

OpenAlex counts 652 works and 41,613 citations for Pieter van Dokkum, an h-index of 112, ranking #5,951 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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