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32
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9577
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318

Overview

Werner Marx is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and medicine. Their work spans several interconnected fields, with notable emphasis on climate variability, health impacts related to the environment, and biochemical aspects relating to nutrition and aging.

The scientist's research interests are reflected in their main fields of study:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

The subfields of study within these areas include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Geriatrics and Gerontology
  • Nutrition and Dietetics

Werner Marx's work addresses several core topics, emphasizing the interaction between climate change and health as well as biochemical compounds linked to aging:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine
  • Nuts composition and effects
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Several frequent co-authors have collaborated with Werner Marx, indicating a network of interdisciplinary research:

  • Robin Haunschild (14 publications)
  • Lutz Bornmann (10 publications)
  • Kevin W. Boyack (2 publications)
  • Jan C. Minx (2 publications)
  • K.J.S. Anand (2 publications)

The scientist has published in a variety of journals and venues with recurring appearances in:

  • Scientometrics (3 papers)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (2 papers)
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Paediatric and Neonatal Pain

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Werner Marx include:

  • Heat waves: a hot topic in climate change research, 2021, Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED)
  • How relevant is climate change research for climate change policy? An empirical analysis based on Overton data, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • On Health Effects of Resveratrol in Wine, 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Historical roots of pain management in infants: A bibliometric analysis using reference publication year spectroscopy, 2020, Paediatric and Neonatal Pain
  • Thomas theorem in research evaluation, 2020, Scientometrics

Best Publications

  • Climate Change Research in View of Bibliometrics.

    Robin Haunschild;Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx

  • What factors determine citation counts of publications in chemistry besides their quality

    Lutz Bornmann;Hermann Schier;Werner Marx;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Detecting the historical roots of research fields by reference publication year spectroscopy RPYS

    Werner Marx;Lutz Bornmann;Andreas Barth;Loet Leydesdorff

  • Diversity, value and limitations of the journal impact factor and alternative metrics

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx;Armen Yuri Gasparyan;George D. Kitas

  • How to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences meaningfully? A proposal of methods based on percentiles of citations

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx

  • Policy documents as sources for measuring societal impact: how often is climate change research mentioned in policy-related documents?

    Lutz Bornmann;Robin Haunschild;Werner Marx

  • Introducing CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer): A program for reference publication year spectroscopy with cited references standardization

    Andreas Thor;Werner Marx;Loet Leydesdorff;Lutz Bornmann

  • Methods for the generation of normalized citation impact scores in bibliometrics: Which method best reflects the judgements of experts?

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx

  • Citation analysis using online databases: Feasibilities and shortcomings

    Werner Marx;Hermann Schier;Michael Wanitschek

  • Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry—Citation counts for papers that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition or rejected but published elsewhere, using Google Scholar, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx;Hermann Schier;Erhard Rahm

  • Comment on the history of the stretched exponential function

    Manuel Cardona;Ralph Chamberlin;Werner Marx

  • How should the societal impact of research be generated and measured? A proposal for a simple and practicable approach to allow interdisciplinary comparisons

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx

  • How good is research really?: Measuring the citation impact of publications with percentiles increases correct assessments and fair comparisons

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx

  • On the causes of subject-specific citation rates in Web of Science

    Werner Marx;Lutz Bornmann

  • Which early works are cited most frequently in climate change research literature? A bibliometric approach based on Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy

    Werner Marx;Robin Haunschild;Andreas Thor;Lutz Bornmann

  • The history of the stretched exponential function

    M. Cardona;Ralph Chamberlin;W. Marx

  • Reference standards and reference multipliers for the comparison of the citation impact of papers published in different time periods

    Werner Marx;Lutz Bornmann;Manuel Cardona

  • A multilevel modelling approach to investigating the predictive validity of editorial decisions: do the editors of a high profile journal select manuscripts that are highly cited after publication?

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Werner Marx;Hermann Schier

  • The proposal of a broadening of perspective in evaluative bibliometrics by complementing the times cited with a cited reference analysis

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx

  • Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy applied to iMetrics: Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, and a relevant subset of JASIST

    Loet Leydesdorff;Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx;Staša Milojević

  • Tracing the origin of a scientific legend by reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS): the legend of the Darwin finches

    Werner Marx;Lutz Bornmann

  • Change of perspective: bibliometrics from the point of view of cited references--a literature overview on approaches to the evaluation of cited references in bibliometrics

    Werner Marx;Lutz Bornmann

  • The application of bibliometrics to research evaluation in the humanities and social sciences: An exploratory study using normalized Google Scholar data for the publications of a research institute

    Lutz Bornmann;Andreas Thor;Werner Marx;Hermann Schier

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Bornmann
Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam
Manuel Cardona
Manuel Cardona Max Planck Society
Manuel Cardona
Manuel Cardona Max Planck Society
Erhard Rahm
Erhard Rahm Leipzig University
George D. Kitas
George D. Kitas Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
Kanwaljeet J. S. Anand
Kanwaljeet J. S. Anand Stanford University

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