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W. D. Heiss

W. D. Heiss publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Quantum chaos and dynamical systems, Scientific Research and Discoveries and Mathematical functions and polynomials.

World rank
#205,390
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#510
of 5,570
Works
31
Citations
185
Citations per work
6.0

What does W. D. Heiss research?

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 40.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 18.9%Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 16.2%Applied Mathematics: 5.4%other fields: 19.0%40%top field
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics40.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics18.9%Nuclear and High Energy Physics16.2%Applied Mathematics5.4%other fields19.0%

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

  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics40% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics19% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics16% of their works
  4. 4Applied Mathematics5% of their works
  5. 5Spectroscopy3% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. D. Heiss's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Lagrangian Coherent Structures, Quantum Chaos, Quantum Mechanics, Optics, Spectroscopy, charmonium, Non-Hermitian Physics and Nuclear Forces.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Lagrangian Coherent Structures91 topic
  2. Quantum Chaos91 topic
  3. Quantum Mechanics52 topics
  4. Optics31 topic
  5. Spectroscopy31 topic
  6. Non-Hermitian Physics21 topic
  7. Nuclear Forces21 topic
  8. Nuclear Structure21 topic
  9. Orthogonal Polynomials21 topic
  10. PT-Symmetry21 topic
  11. QCD21 topic
  12. Quadrature Methods21 topic
  13. Quantum Dots21 topic
  14. Semiconductor21 topic
  15. charmonium21 topic
  16. NMR Spectroscopy11 topic
  17. Solid-State NMR11 topic

Where does W. D. Heiss work?

W. D. Heiss's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does W. D. Heiss have?

Science Explorer counts 31 works and 185 citations for W. D. Heiss, ranking #205,390 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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