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D-Index
37
Citations
4869
World Ranking
2427
National Ranking
180

Rainer Hollerbach publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rainer Hollerbach sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 167 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Rainer Hollerbach D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rainer Hollerbach sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1999 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Rainer Hollerbach is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Ocean Engineering.

Their main research topics include:

  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Magnetic confinement fusion research
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Geophysics and Sensor Technology

Hollerbach has published research in various academic journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physics of Plasmas
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Nature Astronomy

Among the recent papers associated with Hollerbach are:

  • "Evolution of Neutron Star Magnetic Fields" (2021), MDPI (MDPI AG)
  • "Strong toroidal magnetic fields required by quiescent X-ray emission of magnetars" (2020), Nature Astronomy
  • "Powering central compact objects with a tangled crustal magnetic field" (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Time-dependent probability density functions and information diagnostics in forward and backward processes in a stochastic prey-predator model of fusion plasmas" (2020), Physics of Plasmas
  • "Time-dependent probability density functions and information geometry of the low-to-high confinement transition in fusion plasma" (2020), Physical Review Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hollerbach include:

  • Eun-jin Kim
  • Andrei P. Igoshev
  • Adrian J. Barker
  • Toby S. Wood
  • Nils B. de Vries

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as the Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1999 and the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in the same year.

Best Publications

  • Influence of the Earth's inner core on geomagnetic fluctuations and reversals

    Rainer Hollerbach;Chris A. Jones

  • A spectral solution of the magneto-convection equations in spherical geometry

    Rainer Hollerbach

  • Experimental evidence for magnetorotational instability in a Taylor-Couette flow under the influence of a helical magnetic field.

    Frank Stefani;Thomas Gundrum;Gunter Gerbeth;Günther Rüdiger

  • New type of magnetorotational instability in cylindrical taylor-couette flow.

    Rainer Hollerbach;Rainer Hollerbach;Günther Rüdiger

  • Oscillatory internal shear layers in rotating and precessing flows

    R Hollerbach;Richard R Kerswell

  • ON THE THEORY OF THE GEODYNAMO

    Rainer Hollerbach

  • Helical magnetorotational instability in a Taylor-Couette flow with strongly reduced Ekman pumping

    Frank Stefani;Gunter Gerbeth;Thomas Gundrum;Rainer Hollerbach

  • On the magnetically stabilizing role of the Earth's inner core

    Rainer Hollerbach;Chris A. Jones

  • Magnetic Processes in Astrophysics: Theory, Simulations, Experiments

    Günther Rüdiger;Leonid L. Kitchatinov;Rainer Hollerbach

  • Experimental evidence for nonaxisymmetric magnetorotational instability in a rotating liquid metal exposed to an azimuthal magnetic field.

    Martin Seilmayer;Vladimir Galindo;Gunter Gerbeth;Thomas Gundrum

  • A self-consistent convection driven geodynamo model, using a mean field approximation

    C.A. Jones;A.W. Longbottom;R. Hollerbach

  • Experiments on the magnetorotational instability in helical magnetic fields

    Frank Stefani;Thomas Gundrum;Gunter Gerbeth;Günther Rüdiger

  • Instabilities of the Stewartson layer Part 1. The dependence on the sign of $Ro$

    Rainer Hollerbach

  • Nonaxisymmetric magnetorotational instabilities in cylindrical Taylor-Couette flow.

    Rainer Hollerbach;Vijaya Teeluck;Günther Rüdiger

  • Non-axisymmetric instabilities in basic state spherical Couette flow

    Rainer Hollerbach;Markus Junk;Christoph Egbers

  • A geodynamo model incorporating a finitely conducting inner core

    Rainer Hollerbach;Chris A. Jones

  • Destabilization of hydrodynamically stable rotation laws by azimuthal magnetic fields

    Günther Rüdiger;Rainer Hollerbach;Manfred Schultz;Detlef Elstner

  • Instabilities of magnetically induced shear layers and jets

    Rainer Hollerbach;Susan Skinner

  • Non-axisymmetric instabilities in magnetic spherical Couette flow

    Rainer Hollerbach

  • Force-free and contactless sensor for electromagnetic flowrate measurements

    J. Priede;D. Buchenau;G. Gerbeth

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Stefani
Frank Stefani Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Gunter Gerbeth
Gunter Gerbeth Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Michael R. E. Proctor
Michael R. E. Proctor University of Cambridge
Christopher C. Finlay
Christopher C. Finlay Technical University of Denmark
Friedrich H. Busse
Friedrich H. Busse University of Bayreuth
Hans-Peter Bunge
Hans-Peter Bunge Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bruce A. Buffett
Bruce A. Buffett University of California, Berkeley
Carlo F. Barenghi
Carlo F. Barenghi Newcastle University
Peter Olson
Peter Olson University of New Mexico

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