Axel Gerdes

836 total papers · 28.7k total citations
480 papers, 23.2k citations indexed

About

Axel Gerdes is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Gerdes has authored 480 papers receiving a total of 23.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 434 papers in Geophysics, 158 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 66 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Axel Gerdes’s work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (420 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (232 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (185 papers). Axel Gerdes is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (420 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (232 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (185 papers). Axel Gerdes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, South Africa and United States. Axel Gerdes's co-authors include Armin Zeh, Urs Schaltegger, Martin J. Whitehouse, Matthew Horstwood, Jan Košler, Blair Schoene, Jiří Sláma, John M. Hanchar, G. A. Morris and Nicholas Norberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Axel Gerdes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Axel Gerdes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Axel Gerdes based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Axel Gerdes. Axel Gerdes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Axel Gerdes

460 papers receiving 22.7k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Axel Gerdes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Axel Gerdes

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