Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

8.2k papers and 332.7k indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have published 8.2k papers, which have received a total of 332.7k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 7.6k papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2.3k papers in Instrumentation and 852 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics on the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (4.6k papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (3.9k papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (3.0k papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Astronomy and Astrophysics (319.9k citations), Instrumentation (95.5k citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (34.3k citations). Authors at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy collaborate with scholars in Germany, United States and United Kingdom and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some of Max Planck Institute for Astronomy's most productive authors include Hans‐Walter Rix, David W. Hogg, Andreas Burkert, Fabian Walter, Thomas Henning, Dustin Lang, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Eric F. Bell, Andrea V. Macciò and Jonathan Goodman.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at the time of their publication. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by authors working at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers produced at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Max Planck Institute for Astronomy more than expected).

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