Robert Heinkelmann

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Robert Heinkelmann is a scholar working on Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Heinkelmann has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Oceanography, 75 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 53 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Robert Heinkelmann's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (83 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (73 papers) and Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (46 papers). Robert Heinkelmann is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (83 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (73 papers) and Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (46 papers). Robert Heinkelmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and China. Robert Heinkelmann's co-authors include Harald Schuh, J. Boehm, Tobias Nilsson, Maorong Ge, José M. Ferrándiz, Santiago Belda, Galina Dick, Benedikt Soja, Xingxing Li and Florian Zus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Robert Heinkelmann

86 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Short Note: A global model of pressure and temperature for geodetic applications

2007 544 citations J. Boehm, Robert Heinkelmann et al. Journal of Geodesy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Heinkelmann Germany	21	1.4k	1.3k	1.0k	162	96	92	1.7k
Tobias Nilsson Germany	20	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	184 1.1×	89 0.9×	85	1.7k
Y. Bar-Sever United States	24	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	228 1.4×	236 2.5×	97	2.2k
Krzysztof Sośnica Poland	28	2.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	363 2.2×	40 0.4×	126	2.2k
E. Bröckmann Switzerland	16	996 0.7×	864 0.6×	663 0.6×	155 1.0×	190 2.0×	31	1.2k
Michael Meindl Switzerland	14	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	829 0.8×	262 1.6×	382 4.0×	40	1.8k
Sylvain Loyer France	18	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	635 0.6×	387 2.4×	144 1.5×	38	1.5k
Leoš Mervart Switzerland	16	1.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	341 2.1×	419 4.4×	44	2.2k
Paweł Wielgosz Poland	23	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	933 0.9×	156 1.0×	283 2.9×	95	1.6k
R. E. Neilan United States	11	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	399 2.5×	355 3.7×	36	2.0k
H. Bock Switzerland	20	1.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	292 1.8×	377 3.9×	48	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Heinkelmann

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Heinkelmann, Robert, Santiago Belda, Harald Schuh, et al.. (2024). Combining evolutionary computation with machine learning technique for improved short-term prediction of UT1-UTC and length-of-day. Earth Planets and Space. 76(1). 3 indexed citations

Shahvandi, Mostafa Kiani, Surendra Adhikari, Mathieu Dumberry, et al.. (2024). Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion. Nature Geoscience. 17(7). 705–710. 17 indexed citations

Anderson, J. M., Minghui Xu, Robert Heinkelmann, et al.. (2024). The impact of improved estimates of radio star astrometric models on the alignment of the Gaia bright reference frame to ICRF3. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 689. A134–A134. 2 indexed citations

Glaser, Susanne, et al.. (2023). On the improvement of the sensitivity levels of VLBI solutions from a combination with GNSS. Advances in Space Research. 72(8). 3037–3047. 1 indexed citations

Anderson, J. M., Minghui Xu, Oleg Titov, et al.. (2023). Enhancing the alignment of the optically brightGaiareference frame with respect to the International Celestial Reference System. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 676. A11–A11. 3 indexed citations

Glaser, Susanne, et al.. (2023). Favorable locations for new VGOS antennas in India depending on the assessment of geodetic parameters and environmental factors. Earth Planets and Space. 75(1). 2 indexed citations

Heinkelmann, Robert, et al.. (2021). The Role of Spatial Gradient on Vertical Total Electron Content Extraction From Geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry Observation: Case Study CONT08 to CONT17‐L1. Space Weather. 19(6). 2 indexed citations

Charlot, P., C. S. Jacobs, David Gordon, et al.. (2020). The third realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame by very long baseline interferometry. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 36 indexed citations

Belda, Santiago, et al.. (2020). A new hybrid method to improve the ultra-short-term prediction of LOD. Journal of Geodesy. 94(2). 23–23. 37 indexed citations

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Ferrándiz, José M., et al.. (2020). Drift of the Earth’s Principal Axes of Inertia from GRACE and Satellite Laser Ranging Data. Remote Sensing. 12(2). 314–314. 2 indexed citations

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Ferrándiz, José M., R. S. Gross, Alberto Escapa, et al.. (2019). Present and future of Earth rotation models according to the findings of the IAU/IAG Joint Working Group on Theory of Earth rotation and validation. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10515. 1 indexed citations

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Belda, Santiago, et al.. (2018). Polar motion prediction using the combination of SSA and Copula-based analysis. Earth Planets and Space. 70(1). 115–115. 42 indexed citations

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Belda, Santiago, José M. Ferrándiz, Robert Heinkelmann, & Harald Schuh. (2018). A new method to improve the prediction of the celestial pole offsets. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13861–13861. 12 indexed citations

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Heinkelmann, Robert, et al.. (2016). The extension of the parametrization of the radio source coordinates in geodetic VLBI and its impact on the time series analysis. Journal of Geodesy. 91(7). 755–765. 3 indexed citations

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Balidakis, Kyriakos, Florian Zus, Tobias Nilsson, et al.. (2016). On the Impact of Different Mapping Functions on Geodetic and Tropospheric Products from VLBI Data Analysis. Information Visualization. 331–335.

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Lu, Cuixian, Florian Zus, Maorong Ge, et al.. (2016). Tropospheric delay parameters from numerical weather models for multi-GNSS precise positioning. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(12). 5965–5973. 57 indexed citations

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Heinkelmann, Robert, Santiago Belda, José M. Ferrándiz, & Harald Schuh. (2015). The consistency of the current conventional celestial and terrestrial reference frames and the conventional EOP series. 224. 3 indexed citations

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Heinkelmann, Robert, Tobias Nilsson, Li Liu, et al.. (2014). The GFZ VLBI Solution: Characteristics and First Results. Information Visualization. 330–334. 3 indexed citations

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Heinkelmann, Robert, Johannes Böhm, & Harald Schuh. (2007). Effects of Geodetic Datum Definition on the Celestial and Terrestrial Reference Frames determined by VLBI. 200–205. 2 indexed citations

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Schuh, Harald, et al.. (2006). Climatic signals observed by VLBI. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica Hungarica. 41(2). 159–170. 4 indexed citations

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