Frans Pretorius

166 total papers · 9.4k total citations
82 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Frans Pretorius is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Frans Pretorius has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 51 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Frans Pretorius’s work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (54 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (45 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (40 papers). Frans Pretorius is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (54 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (45 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (40 papers). Frans Pretorius collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frans Pretorius's co-authors include Nicolás Yunes, William E. East, Kent Yagi, Luis Lehner, Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu, Alessandra Buonanno, Matthew W. Choptuik, Gregory B. Cook, Vasileios Paschalidis and Justin L. Ripley and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Computational Physics and Physics Letters B.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frans Pretorius

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

Frans Pretorius

82 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Frans Pretorius

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Frans Pretorius

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