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Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Wolfgang Hofkirchner publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Computational Theory and Mathematics, on topics such as Origins and Evolution of Life, Complex Systems and Dynamics and Chaos, Complexity, and Education.

World rank
#567,345
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Austria
#3,906
of 10,230
Works
27
Citations
43
Citations per work
1.6

What does Wolfgang Hofkirchner research?

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 21.4%Sociology and Political Science: 14.3%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 10.7%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 10.7%other fields: 42.9%21%top field
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics21.4%Sociology and Political Science14.3%Computational Theory and Mathematics10.7%Astronomy and Astrophysics10.7%other fields42.9%

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 Physics21% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Computational Theory and Mathematics11% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics11% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems7% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wolfgang Hofkirchner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Complex Systems, Self-Organization, Education, Information Theory, Innovation, Meta-Structures, Prebiotic Chemistry and RNA World.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Complex Systems52 topics
  2. Self-Organization52 topics
  3. Education32 topics
  4. Information Theory31 topic
  5. Innovation32 topics
  6. Meta-Structures31 topic
  7. Prebiotic Chemistry31 topic
  8. RNA World31 topic
  9. Complexity Theory21 topic
  10. Emergence21 topic
  11. Information Science21 topic
  12. Soft Systems Methodology21 topic
  13. System Dynamics21 topic
  14. Technology21 topic
  15. Algorithmic Information Theory11 topic
  16. Biomedical Engineering11 topic
  17. Cognition11 topic
  18. Computability11 topic
  19. Hackathons11 topic
  20. Physics of Mind11 topic

Where does Wolfgang Hofkirchner work?

Wolfgang Hofkirchner's main affiliation in the publication record is Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Austria.

How many publications and citations does Wolfgang Hofkirchner have?

Science Explorer counts 27 works and 43 citations for Wolfgang Hofkirchner, ranking #567,345 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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