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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics · Germany

Simon D. M. White

Simon D. M. White publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-1061-6154 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,931
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#74
of 364,343
Works
649
Citations
107k
Citations per work
164.1
h-index
133
i10-index 377Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Simon D. M. White

What does Simon D. M. White research?

Simon D. M. White's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (90%), Computer Science (1%).

Physical Sciences: 589 works · 90.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 582 works · 89.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 374 works · 57.7% of their workInstrumentation: 119 works · 18.4% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 48 works · 7.4% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 31 works · 4.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 works · 1.4% of their workComputer Science: 8 works · 1.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 8 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 60 works · 9.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon D. M. White649works
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 Astronomy58289.6%
    2. Computer Science81.2%
  2. Everything else609.2%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics58% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation18% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics1% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon D. M. White's research?

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

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation5422 topics
  2. Cosmology5392 topics
  3. Dark Matter5392 topics
  4. Black Holes4671 topic
  5. Galaxies4671 topic
  6. Astronomical Instrumentation3341 topic
  7. Spectrograph3341 topic
  8. Exoplanets1791 topic
  9. Stellar Astrophysics1791 topic
  10. Cosmological Parameters1741 topic
  11. Dark Energy1741 topic
  12. Cosmic Rays1162 topics
  13. Neutrinos1162 topics
  14. Molecular Clouds751 topic
  15. Protoplanetary Disks751 topic
  16. Axions721 topic
  17. WIMPs721 topic
  18. Optics691 topic
  19. Spectroscopy691 topic
  20. High-Energy Astrophysics441 topic
  21. Particle Acceleration441 topic

Where does Simon D. M. White work?

Simon D. M. White's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Simon D. M. White have?

OpenAlex counts 649 works and 106,529 citations for Simon D. M. White, an h-index of 133, ranking #1,931 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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