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Volker Springel

Volker Springel 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 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

World rank
#1,320
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#260
of 86,443
Works
188
Citations
5.2k
Citations per work
27.5

What does Volker Springel research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 62.7%Instrumentation: 15.4%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 9.5%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2.5%other fields: 9.9%63%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics62.7%Instrumentation15.4%Nuclear and High Energy Physics9.5%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2.5%other fields9.9%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics63% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation15% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Volker Springel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Galaxies, Stellar Populations, Accretion Disks and Astronomical Instrumentation.

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 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation872 topics
  2. Black Holes762 topics
  3. Cosmology702 topics
  4. Dark Matter702 topics
  5. Galaxies631 topic
  6. Stellar Populations631 topic
  7. Accretion Disks372 topics
  8. Astronomical Instrumentation371 topic
  9. Magnetic Fields372 topics
  10. Spectrograph371 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds241 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks241 topic
  13. Galactic Center202 topics
  14. Cosmic Rays192 topics
  15. Neutrinos192 topics
  16. Exoplanets151 topic
  17. Stellar Astrophysics151 topic
  18. Cosmological Parameters131 topic
  19. Dark Energy131 topic
  20. Event Horizon Telescope131 topic
  21. X-Ray Astronomy131 topic
  22. High-Energy Astrophysics121 topic
  23. Particle Acceleration121 topic
  24. Axions71 topic
  25. WIMPs71 topic

Where does Volker Springel work?

Volker Springel's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Volker Springel have?

Science Explorer counts 188 works and 5,171 citations for Volker Springel, ranking #1,320 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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