Falk Herwig

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
131 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Falk Herwig is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Falk Herwig has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 32 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 26 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Falk Herwig's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (100 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (64 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (52 papers). Falk Herwig is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (100 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (64 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (52 papers). Falk Herwig collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Falk Herwig's co-authors include M. Pignatari, Pavel A. Denissenkov, K. Werner, Samuel Jones, Chris L. Fryer, Bill Paxton, Raphaël Hirschi, R. Gallino, Paul R. Woodward and Christian Ritter and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Falk Herwig

126 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Evolution of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 200 400 600
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.

  1. Evolution of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
    2005 645 citations Falk Herwig Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Falk Herwig United States 39 4.3k 1.2k 983 219 204 131 4.7k
Amanda I. Karakas Australia 41 5.0k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 1.5k 1.6× 145 0.7× 200 1.0× 178 5.3k
A. Chieffi Italy 32 4.0k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 195 0.9× 113 0.6× 91 4.4k
Raphaël Hirschi United Kingdom 38 6.2k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 1.8k 1.8× 124 0.6× 136 0.7× 127 6.6k
Nikos Prantzos France 32 3.8k 0.9× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 145 0.7× 80 0.4× 119 4.3k
S. Cristallo Italy 28 2.3k 0.5× 793 0.7× 520 0.5× 148 0.7× 191 0.9× 104 2.6k
M. Pignatari United States 33 2.7k 0.6× 1.5k 1.2× 400 0.4× 426 1.9× 232 1.1× 148 3.4k
Hideyuki Umeda Japan 35 5.8k 1.4× 1.5k 1.3× 989 1.0× 62 0.3× 157 0.8× 115 6.1k
Ann Merchant Boesgaard United States 29 2.7k 0.6× 832 0.7× 781 0.8× 100 0.5× 79 0.4× 108 3.1k
L. Siess Belgium 36 3.1k 0.7× 514 0.4× 822 0.8× 84 0.4× 123 0.6× 120 3.3k
James W. Truran United States 28 2.5k 0.6× 1.5k 1.2× 292 0.3× 179 0.8× 177 0.9× 82 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Falk Herwig

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Fields of papers citing papers by Falk Herwig

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Falk Herwig

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pignatari, M., S. Amari, P. Höppe, et al.. (2025). Production of Radioactive 22Na in Core-collapse Supernovae: The Ne-E(L) Component in Presolar Grains and Its Possible Consequences on Supernova Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. 990(1). 19–19. 1 indexed citations
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Wiedeking, M., S. Goriely, M. Guttormsen, et al.. (2025). Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics. Nature Reviews Physics. 7(12). 696–712.
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Thompson, William, Falk Herwig, Paul R. Woodward, et al.. (2024). 3D hydrodynamic simulations of massive main-sequence stars – II. Convective excitation and spectra of internal gravity waves. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(1). 1316–1337. 10 indexed citations
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Blouin, Simon, et al.. (2023). 3D hydrodynamics simulations of core convection in supermassive main-sequence stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(3). 4605–4613. 3 indexed citations
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Dillmann, I., O. Kester, R. Baartman, et al.. (2023). Measuring neutron capture cross sections of radioactive nuclei. The European Physical Journal A. 59(5). 105–105. 4 indexed citations
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Richter, W. A., B. A. Brown, R. Longland, et al.. (2020). Shell-model studies of the astrophysical rp-process reactions S34(p,γ)Cl35 and Cl34g,m(p,γ)Ar35. Physical review. C. 102(2). 5 indexed citations
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Hartogh, J. W. den, Raphaël Hirschi, Maria Lugaro, et al.. (2019). The s process in rotating low-mass AGB stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 629. A123–A123. 15 indexed citations
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Lederer-Woods, C., Falk Herwig, Pavel A. Denissenkov, et al.. (2019). NuGrid stellar data set – III. Updated low-mass AGB models and s-process nucleosynthesis with metallicities Z= 0.01, Z = 0.02, and Z = 0.03. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(1). 1082–1098. 41 indexed citations
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Pignatari, M., P. Höppe, R. Trappitsch, et al.. (2017). The neutron capture process in the He shell in core-collapse supernovae: Presolar silicon carbide grains as a diagnostic tool for nuclear astrophysics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 221. 37–46. 20 indexed citations
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Jones, Samuel, Raphaël Hirschi, M. Pignatari, et al.. (2015). Code dependencies of pre-supernova evolution and nucleosynthesis in massive stars: evolution to the end of core helium burning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 447(4). 3115–3129. 32 indexed citations
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Ritter, Christian, Clare Higgs, Samuel Jones, et al.. (2015). i process and CEMP-s+r stars. 145–145. 11 indexed citations
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Paxton, Bill, Lars Bildsten, Aaron Dotter, et al.. (2010). MESA: Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 12 indexed citations
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Herwig, Falk, B. Freytag, J. P. Hansen, et al.. (2007). Convective and Non-Convective Mixing in AGB Stars. ASPC. 378. 43. 1 indexed citations
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Rauch, T., et al.. (2006). High-resolution ultraviolet spectroscopy of PG 1159-035  with HST and\nFUSE. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 26 indexed citations
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Sivarani, T., Timothy C. Beers, P. Bonifacio, et al.. (2006). First stars X. The nature of three unevolved carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 50 indexed citations
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Poelarends, A. J. T., R. G. Izzard, Falk Herwig, N. Langer, & Alexander Heger. (2006). Supernovae from massive AGB stars. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 77(3). 846–851. 2 indexed citations
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Herwig, Falk. (2005). Evolution of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 43(1). 435–479. 645 indexed citations breakdown →
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Herwig, Falk. (2002). CNO in Low- and Zero-Metallicity AGB Stars. CERN Bulletin. 304. 318. 1 indexed citations
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Herwig, Falk & N. Langer. (2000). Convective proton and 3 He ingestion into helium burning: Nucleosynthesis during a post-AGB thermal pulse. 9 indexed citations
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Herwig, Falk, et al.. (2000). Advances in s-process models. 5 indexed citations

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