A. Piel

14.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
320 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

A. Piel is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Piel has authored 320 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 184 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 147 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 66 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in A. Piel's work include Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena (167 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (140 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (56 papers). A. Piel is often cited by papers focused on Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena (167 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (140 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (56 papers). A. Piel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. A. Piel's co-authors include A. Melzer, A. Homann, Dietmar Block, Franko Greiner, Thomas Trottenberg, O. Arp, V. A. Schweigert, M. Klindworth, Fiona A. Stewart and T. Klinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

A. Piel

313 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Experimental determination of the charge on dust particles forming Coulomb lattices

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Piel Germany	50	7.1k	5.2k	3.3k	1.3k	1.0k	320	9.6k
John R. Cary United States	44	2.7k 0.4×	1.1k 0.2×	639 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	4.4k 4.3×	239	7.8k
Nigel Goldenfeld United States	58	1.5k 0.2×	578 0.1×	233 0.1×	256 0.2×	220 0.2×	205	12.6k
R. Schneider Germany	41	2.2k 0.3×	1.5k 0.3×	213 0.1×	2.3k 1.7×	3.6k 3.5×	447	8.9k
S. M. Kahn United States	42	2.0k 0.3×	3.8k 0.7×	385 0.1×	267 0.2×	1.4k 1.4×	259	5.8k
Daniel S. Fisher United States	75	11.8k 1.7×	106 0.0×	697 0.2×	1.5k 1.1×	341 0.3×	170	24.8k
Paul J. Steinhardt United States	80	3.1k 0.4×	26.3k 5.1×	444 0.1×	699 0.5×	21.2k 20.6×	307	37.8k
Abraham Loeb United States	80	922 0.1×	21.3k 4.1×	335 0.1×	402 0.3×	8.9k 8.6×	559	22.6k
M. Krämer Germany	68	1.4k 0.2×	16.3k 3.2×	2.0k 0.6×	393 0.3×	5.5k 5.3×	542	18.8k
R. Parthasarathy United States	40	1.0k 0.1×	497 0.1×	198 0.1×	458 0.3×	179 0.2×	221	5.5k
G. W. Turner United States	35	1.7k 0.2×	448 0.1×	203 0.1×	2.7k 2.0×	96 0.1×	255	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Piel

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Lewis, M.B., et al.. (2024). Development of spatial models and maps for tree species diversity and biomass in a miombo ecosystem, western Tanzania. Applied Vegetation Science. 27(4). 2 indexed citations

Loos, Jacqueline, et al.. (2023). Wildlife habitat association over a twelve-year period (2008–2020) in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem, western Tanzania. Journal for Nature Conservation. 75. 126464–126464. 5 indexed citations

Piel, A., et al.. (2023). A chimpanzee’s time to feast: seasonality of Macrotermes flight hole activity and alate dispersal flights detected by termite-fishing experiments and camera traps in the Issa Valley, Tanzania. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 4 indexed citations

Wich, Serge A., et al.. (2023). Using Drones to Determine Chimpanzee Absences at the Edge of Their Distribution in Western Tanzania. Remote Sensing. 15(8). 2019–2019. 3 indexed citations

Chalmers, Carl, et al.. (2022). Understanding External Influences on Target Detection and Classification Using Camera Trap Images and Machine Learning. Sensors. 22(14). 5386–5386. 10 indexed citations

Kivell, Tracy L., et al.. (2022). Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism. Science Advances. 8(50). eadd9752–eadd9752. 23 indexed citations

Isaacs, Jason T., et al.. (2022). Localizing wild chimpanzees with passive acoustics. Ecology and Evolution. 12(5). e8902–e8902. 3 indexed citations

Stewart, Fiona A., et al.. (2022). Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) grouping patterns in an open and dry savanna landscape, Issa Valley, western Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution. 163. 103137–103137. 11 indexed citations

Chalmers, Carl, et al.. (2021). An Evaluation of the Factors Affecting ‘Poacher’ Detection with Drones and the Efficacy of Machine-Learning for Detection. Sensors. 21(12). 4074–4074. 18 indexed citations

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Piel, A., et al.. (2021). Noninvasive Technologies for Primate Conservation in the 21st Century. International Journal of Primatology. 43(1). 133–167. 28 indexed citations

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Wich, Serge A., et al.. (2021). Ecological correlates of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) density in Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0246628–e0246628. 7 indexed citations

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Groth, Sebastian, Franko Greiner, & A. Piel. (2019). Spatio-temporally resolved investigations of layered particle growth in a reactive argon-acetylene plasma. Plasma Sources Science and Technology. 28(11). 115016–115016. 20 indexed citations

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Brown, Michelle, et al.. (2019). Food abundance and weather influence habitat‐specific ranging patterns in forest‐ and savanna mosaic‐dwelling red‐tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 170(2). 217–231. 11 indexed citations

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Pintea, Lilian, et al.. (2019). Cercopithecine and Colobine Abundance Across Protected and Unprotected Land in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem, Western Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology. 40(6). 687–705. 9 indexed citations

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Miloch, Wojciech J., et al.. (2018). Dynamic ion shadows behind finite-sized objects in collisionless magnetized plasma flows. New Journal of Physics. 20(7). 73027–73027. 16 indexed citations

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Piel, A., et al.. (2018). Molecular dynamics simulations of wake structures behind a microparticle in a magnetized ion flow. I. Collisionless limit with cold ion beam. Physics of Plasmas. 25(8). 13 indexed citations

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Stewart, Fiona A., A. Piel, Jurgi Cristóbal‐Azkarate, & Jill D. Pruetz. (2018). Savanna chimpanzees adjust sleeping nest architecture in response to local weather conditions. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 166(3). 549–562. 21 indexed citations

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Piel, A., et al.. (2018). Chimpanzees and their mammalian sympatriates in the Issa Valley, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology. 57(1). 31–40. 12 indexed citations

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Barbian, Hannah J., Andrew Connell, Ronnie M. Russell, et al.. (2018). CHIIMP: An automated high‐throughput microsatellite genotyping platform reveals greater allelic diversity in wild chimpanzees. Ecology and Evolution. 8(16). 7946–7963. 20 indexed citations

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Piel, A.. (2018). Temporal patterns of chimpanzee loud calls in the Issa Valley, Tanzania: Evidence of nocturnal acoustic behavior in wild chimpanzees. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 166(3). 530–540. 19 indexed citations

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