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Researcher · Itasca Consultants (France) · France

W. de Sitter

W. de Sitter publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Oceanography, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, History and Developments in Astronomy and Relativity and Gravitational Theory.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,760,844
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#117,480
of 324,115
Works
114
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
12.0
h-index
13
i10-index 14Top 45% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
W. de Sitter

What does W. de Sitter research?

W. de Sitter's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (60%), Engineering (12%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%).

Physical Sciences: 90 works · 79.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 68 works · 59.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 66 works · 57.5% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 works · 2.2% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 12.4% of their workAerospace Engineering: 9 works · 7.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 4.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 7.1% of their workOceanography: 8 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 18.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 1.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 1.9% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 works · 1.9% of their workTHEIR WORKW. de Sitter114works
Physical Sciences79%Social Sciences2%

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 Astronomy6859.7%
    2. Engineering1412.4%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences87.1%
  2. Everything else2218.9%
    1. Social Sciences21.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics57% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography7% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics5% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. de Sitter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Relativity, Unified Field Theories, 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. Solar System Abundances341 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets341 topic
  3. Radio Astronomy321 topic
  4. Transits of Venus321 topic
  5. Relativity211 topic
  6. Unified Field Theories211 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism201 topic
  8. Astronomical Calculator201 topic
  9. Mars191 topic
  10. Martian Surface191 topic
  11. GRACE171 topic
  12. Sea Level Rise171 topic
  13. Cosmological Parameters141 topic
  14. Dark Energy141 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement121 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector121 topic

Where does W. de Sitter work?

W. de Sitter's main affiliation in the publication record is Itasca Consultants (France), France.

How many publications and citations does W. de Sitter have?

OpenAlex counts 114 works and 1,369 citations for W. de Sitter, an h-index of 13, ranking #2,760,844 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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