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Rainer Kresken

Rainer Kresken publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration and Spacecraft Design and Technology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,548,442
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#49,205
of 67,186
Works
21
Citations
31
Citations per work
1.5

What does Rainer Kresken research?

Rainer Kresken's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (40%), Engineering (29%), Computer Science (6%).

Physical Sciences80%

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 Astronomy840.0%
    2. Engineering629.1%
    3. Computer Science15.5%
    4. Environmental Science15.5%
  1. Everything else419.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics34% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering22% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Instrumentation6% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rainer Kresken's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mars, Martian Surface, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, CubeSat, small satellite, Astronomical Instrumentation and Black Holes.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Mars61 topic
  2. Martian Surface61 topic
  3. Solar System Abundances61 topic
  4. Terrestrial Planets61 topic
  5. CubeSat51 topic
  6. small satellite51 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation31 topic
  8. Black Holes31 topic
  9. On-Orbit Servicing31 topic
  10. Space Debris31 topic
  11. Spectrograph31 topic
  12. Stable Isotopes31 topic
  13. Trophic Position31 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy31 topic
  15. Distributed Systems21 topic
  16. Grid Computing21 topic

Where does Rainer Kresken work?

Rainer Kresken's main affiliation in the publication record is Rhea (Belgium), Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Rainer Kresken have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 31 citations for Rainer Kresken, an h-index of 3, ranking #5,548,442 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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