Ralf Dorn

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ralf Dorn is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Dorn has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 1 paper in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ralf Dorn's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (4 papers), Near-Field Optical Microscopy (3 papers) and Digitalization, Law, and Regulation (1 paper). Ralf Dorn is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (4 papers), Near-Field Optical Microscopy (3 papers) and Digitalization, Law, and Regulation (1 paper). Ralf Dorn collaborates with scholars based in Germany. Ralf Dorn's co-authors include S. Quabis, Gerd Leuchs, Michael Reichle, Jochen Müller, Oliver Wagner and Andreas Gramm and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics B and Journal of Modern Optics.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Dorn

6 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam

2003 1.6k citations Ralf Dorn, S. Quabis et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ralf Dorn Germany	4	1.5k	1.1k	311	257	136	7	1.7k
Kathleen S. Youngworth United States	6	1.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	322 1.0×	296 1.2×	180 1.3×	8	2.1k
Severin Fürhapter Austria	12	1.8k 1.2×	958 0.9×	298 1.0×	336 1.3×	93 0.7×	14	1.9k
S. Quabis Germany	10	2.3k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	466 1.5×	385 1.5×	227 1.7×	21	2.7k
Zdeněk Bouchal Czechia	20	1.6k 1.0×	955 0.9×	287 0.9×	169 0.7×	103 0.8×	70	1.8k
Cheng-Shan Guo China	23	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	292 0.9×	327 1.3×	87 0.6×	84	2.2k
S. Chávez-Cerda Mexico	22	1.9k 1.2×	987 0.9×	358 1.2×	203 0.8×	33 0.2×	77	2.1k
R. McDuff Australia	9	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	259 0.8×	407 1.6×	29 0.2×	17	1.9k
M. Kristensen Denmark	11	1.5k 1.0×	694 0.7×	464 1.5×	313 1.2×	19 0.1×	39	1.6k
Zhangrong Mei China	23	1.8k 1.2×	792 0.8×	539 1.7×	86 0.3×	65 0.5×	91	1.9k
O. Glöckl Germany	12	1.0k 0.7×	549 0.5×	220 0.7×	83 0.3×	81 0.6×	20	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ralf Dorn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralf Dorn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Dorn

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Dorn, Ralf, Andreas Gramm, & Oliver Wagner. (2005). Planspiel zum Datenschutz.. 25. 72–75. 1 indexed citations

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Quabis, S., Ralf Dorn, & Gerd Leuchs. (2005). Generation of a radially polarized doughnut mode of high quality. Applied Physics B. 81(5). 597–600. 90 indexed citations

3.

Quabis, S., et al.. (2004). Radial polarization minimizes focal spot size. IWG3–IWG3. 1 indexed citations

4.

Dorn, Ralf, S. Quabis, & Gerd Leuchs. (2003). Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam. Physical Review Letters. 91(23). 233901–233901. 1595 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dorn, Ralf, S. Quabis, & Gerd Leuchs. (2003). The focus of light--linear polarization breaks the rotational symmetry of the focal spot. Journal of Modern Optics. 50(12). 1917–1926. 20 indexed citations

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Quabis, S., et al.. (2002). Polarization-dependent effects on phase singularities in the vicinity of sub-lambda structures. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4777. 362–362. 3 indexed citations

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Quabis, S., et al.. (2001). <title>Reduction of the spot size by using a radially polarized laser beam</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4429. 105–111. 7 indexed citations

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