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Researcher · Mount Wilson Observatory · United States

van Rhijn

van Rhijn publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as History and Developments in Astronomy, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,214,626
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,337,138
of 1,627,098
Works
32
Citations
64
Citations per work
2.0
h-index
4
i10-index 2Top 90% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
van Rhijn

What does van Rhijn research?

van Rhijn's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (48%), Arts and Humanities (5%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%).

Physical Sciences: 17 works · 54.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 15 works · 47.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 12 works · 36.5% of their workInstrumentation: 3 works · 7.9% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 works · 3.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 3.2% of their workOceanography: 1 works · 3.2% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 3.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 41.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 4.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 4.8% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKvan Rhijn32works
Physical Sciences54%Social Sciences5%

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 Astronomy1547.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.2%
    3. Engineering13.2%
  2. Everything else1341.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities24.8%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics36% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation8% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography3% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe van Rhijn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Antikythera Mechanism and Astronomical Calculator.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Radio Astronomy121 topic
  2. Transits of Venus121 topic
  3. Exoplanets61 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics61 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation51 topic
  6. Spectrograph51 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism41 topic
  8. Astronomical Calculator41 topic
  9. Global History31 topic
  10. Science Circulation31 topic
  11. Economic Growth21 topic
  12. GRACE21 topic
  13. Nighttime Light Data21 topic
  14. Optical 3D Laser Measurement21 topic
  15. Position-Sensitive Detector21 topic
  16. Sea Level Rise21 topic

Where does van Rhijn work?

van Rhijn's main affiliation in the publication record is Mount Wilson Observatory, United States.

How many publications and citations does van Rhijn have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 64 citations for van Rhijn, an h-index of 4, ranking #5,214,626 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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