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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics · Germany

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.

ORCID 0000-0001-5976-4599 OpenAlex
World rank
#170
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#5
of 364,343
Works
779
Citations
104k
Citations per work
133.7
h-index
156
i10-index 465Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volker Springel

What does Volker Springel research?

Volker Springel's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (89%), Engineering (3%), Environmental Science (1%).

Physical Sciences: 722 works · 92.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 692 works · 88.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 492 works · 63.2% of their workInstrumentation: 119 works · 15.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 60 works · 7.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 20 works · 2.6% of their workEngineering: 21 works · 2.7% of their workComputational Mechanics: 21 works · 2.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 1.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 57 works · 7.3% of their workTHEIR WORKVolker Springel779works
Physical Sciences93%

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 Astronomy69288.8%
    2. Engineering212.7%
    3. Environmental Science91.2%
  2. Everything else577.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics63% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation15% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% 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, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.

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 Formation7722 topics
  2. Black Holes6702 topics
  3. Cosmology5741 topic
  4. Galaxies5741 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation3301 topic
  6. Spectrograph3301 topic
  7. Accretion Disks2942 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields2942 topics
  9. Supernovae2242 topics
  10. Molecular Clouds1981 topic
  11. Protoplanetary Disks1981 topic
  12. Exoplanets1451 topic
  13. Stellar Astrophysics1451 topic
  14. Cosmological Parameters1421 topic
  15. Dark Energy1421 topic
  16. High-Energy Astrophysics1011 topic
  17. Particle Acceleration1011 topic
  18. Event Horizon Telescope961 topic
  19. X-Ray Astronomy961 topic
  20. Gamma-Ray Bursts821 topic
  21. Neutron Stars821 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?

OpenAlex counts 779 works and 104,167 citations for Volker Springel, an h-index of 156, ranking #170 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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