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R. Genzel

R. Genzel publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

World rank
#208,166
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#12,674
of 86,443
Works
316
Citations
2k
Citations per work
6.2

What does R. Genzel research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 51.8%Instrumentation: 11.9%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5.9%Computational Mechanics: 4.9%other fields: 25.5%52%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics51.8%Instrumentation11.9%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5.9%Computational Mechanics4.9%other fields25.5%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics52% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation12% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Spectroscopy4% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. Genzel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Black Holes, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Molecular Clouds and Protoplanetary Disks.

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 Formation1052 topics
  2. Accretion Disks942 topics
  3. Magnetic Fields942 topics
  4. Black Holes812 topics
  5. Exoplanets621 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics621 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds591 topic
  8. Protoplanetary Disks591 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation561 topic
  10. Spectrograph561 topic
  11. Cosmology461 topic
  12. Galaxies461 topic
  13. Event Horizon Telescope351 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy351 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement241 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector241 topic
  17. Adaptive Optics201 topic
  18. Wavefront Sensing201 topic
  19. Spectroscopic Databases191 topic
  20. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers191 topic

Where does R. Genzel work?

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

How many publications and citations does R. Genzel have?

Science Explorer counts 316 works and 1,956 citations for R. Genzel, ranking #208,166 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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