Chris W. Ormel

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Chris W. Ormel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris W. Ormel has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Spectroscopy and 6 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Chris W. Ormel's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (66 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (57 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (53 papers). Chris W. Ormel is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (66 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (57 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (53 papers). Chris W. Ormel collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and China. Chris W. Ormel's co-authors include Hubert Klahr, C. P. Dullemond, Andras Zsom, Beibei Liu, C. Güttler, Jürgen Blum, C. Dominik, Djoeke Schoonenberg, R. Kuiper and T. Birnstiel and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

Chris W. Ormel

70 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

The effect of gas drag on the growth of protoplanets

2010 374 citations Chris W. Ormel et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →
The outcome of protoplanetary dust growth: pebbles, boulders, or planetesimals?

2010 369 citations Andras Zsom, Chris W. Ormel et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris W. Ormel Netherlands	35	3.9k	609	279	181	119	73	4.1k
Andrew N. Youdin United States	22	3.4k 0.9×	388 0.6×	156 0.6×	160 0.9×	89 0.7×	43	3.6k
Hubert Klahr Germany	45	6.6k 1.7×	1.0k 1.7×	229 0.8×	227 1.3×	70 0.6×	115	6.8k
Xue‐Ning Bai United States	32	3.5k 0.9×	679 1.1×	205 0.7×	174 1.0×	48 0.4×	82	3.7k
T. Birnstiel Germany	35	4.9k 1.2×	1.7k 2.8×	281 1.0×	64 0.4×	53 0.4×	96	5.0k
S. J. Weidenschilling United States	35	5.5k 1.4×	493 0.8×	476 1.7×	664 3.7×	86 0.7×	137	5.7k
W. Kley Germany	36	4.2k 1.1×	505 0.8×	84 0.3×	135 0.7×	30 0.3×	134	4.3k
Satoshi Okuzumi Japan	24	1.8k 0.5×	421 0.7×	137 0.5×	56 0.3×	49 0.4×	74	2.0k
Shigeru Ida Japan	44	7.0k 1.8×	408 0.7×	372 1.3×	311 1.7×	29 0.2×	153	7.1k
Philip J. Armitage United States	47	5.4k 1.4×	666 1.1×	102 0.4×	227 1.3×	20 0.2×	124	5.5k
C. J. Clarke United Kingdom	49	7.3k 1.9×	1.6k 2.6×	241 0.9×	52 0.3×	22 0.2×	200	7.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris W. Ormel

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Chris W. Ormel's research. 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 Chris W. Ormel with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Chris W. Ormel more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Chris W. Ormel

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Chris W. Ormel. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Chris W. Ormel. The network helps show where Chris W. Ormel may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris W. Ormel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris W. Ormel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris W. Ormel 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 Chris W. Ormel. Chris W. Ormel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Wang, Yu, et al.. (2025). Solving for the 2D water snowline with hydrodynamic simulations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 696. A38–A38. 5 indexed citations

2.

Vazan, Allona & Chris W. Ormel. (2023). Rocky sub-Neptunes formed by pebble accretion: Rain of rock from polluted envelopes. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 676. L8–L8. 7 indexed citations

3.

Wang, Y., et al.. (2023). Chemical footprints of giant planet formation. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 678. A33–A33. 12 indexed citations

4.

Kuiper, R., et al.. (2021). Steady state by recycling prevents premature collapse of protoplanetary atmospheres. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

5.

Ormel, Chris W., et al.. (2021). How planets grow by pebble accretion. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 653. A103–A103. 21 indexed citations

6.

Min, M., Chris W. Ormel, K. L. Chubb, Ch. Helling, & Yui Kawashima. (2020). The ARCiS framework for exoplanet atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 642. A28–A28. 60 indexed citations

7.

Schoonenberg, Djoeke, Chris W. Ormel, & Sebastiaan Krijt. (2018). . Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 35 indexed citations

8.

Vazan, Allona, Chris W. Ormel, & C. Dominik. (2018). Effect of core cooling on the radius of sub-Neptune planets. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 12 indexed citations

9.

Ormel, Chris W. & Beibei Liu. (2018). Catching drifting pebbles. II. A stochastic equation of motion for pebbles. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 28 indexed citations

10.

Klarmann, L., Chris W. Ormel, & C. Dominik. (2018). . Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 33 indexed citations

11.

Ormel, Chris W., Beibei Liu, & Djoeke Schoonenberg. (2017). . Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 57 indexed citations

12.

Ormel, Chris W., et al.. (2016). . UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 40 indexed citations

13.

Krijt, Sebastiaan, Chris W. Ormel, C. Dominik, & A. G. G. M. Tielens. (2016). . UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 55 indexed citations

14.

Krijt, Sebastiaan, et al.. (2015). . UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 33 indexed citations

15.

Steinacker, Jürgen M., Chris W. Ormel, Morten Andersen, & A. Bacmann. (2014). Coreshine in L1506C – Evidence for a primitive big-grain component or indication for a turbulent core history?. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 10 indexed citations

16.

Birnstiel, T., et al.. (2012). Breaking through: The effects of a velocity distribution on barriers to dust growth. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 100 indexed citations

17.

Birnstiel, T., Chris W. Ormel, & C. P. Dullemond. (2010). Dust size distributions in coagulation/fragmentation equilibrium: numerical solutions and analytical fits. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 151 indexed citations

18.

Güttler, C., Jürgen Blum, Andras Zsom, Chris W. Ormel, & C. P. Dullemond. (2009). The first phase of protoplanetary dust growth: The bouncing barrier. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 73. 2 indexed citations

19.

Ormel, Chris W. & Jeffrey N. Cuzzi. (2007). Closed-form expressions for particle relative velocities induced by turbulence. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 161 indexed citations

20.

Ormel, Chris W., R. Shipman, V. Ossenkopf, & F. Helmich. (2005). The modelling of infrared dark cloud cores. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact