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W. J. de Wit

W. J. de Wit publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

World rank
#400,133
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Chile
#564
of 3,393
Works
37
Citations
193
Citations per work
5.2

What does W. J. de Wit research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 61.0%Instrumentation: 13.6%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5.1%Computational Mechanics: 3.4%other fields: 16.9%61%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics61.0%Instrumentation13.6%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5.1%Computational Mechanics3.4%other fields16.9%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics61% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation14% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. J. de Wit's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds, Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets141 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics141 topic
  3. Accretion Disks122 topics
  4. Magnetic Fields122 topics
  5. Molecular Clouds101 topic
  6. Star Formation101 topic
  7. Astronomical Instrumentation81 topic
  8. Spectrograph81 topic
  9. Solar System Abundances51 topic
  10. Terrestrial Planets51 topic
  11. Adaptive Optics31 topic
  12. Gamma-Ray Bursts31 topic
  13. Supernovae31 topic
  14. Wavefront Sensing31 topic
  15. Black Holes21 topic
  16. Optical 3D Laser Measurement21 topic
  17. Position-Sensitive Detector21 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy21 topic

Where does W. J. de Wit work?

W. J. de Wit's main affiliation in the publication record is European Southern Observatory, Chile.

How many publications and citations does W. J. de Wit have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 193 citations for W. J. de Wit, ranking #400,133 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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