Ralph Wijers - Selected Publications#

Research Papers [numbers of citations to the papers according to NASA ADS are given in square parentheses]:

[1] Bhattacharya, D., Wijers, R.A.M.J., Hartman, J.W., and Verbunt, F. 1992, On the decay of the magnetic fields of single radio pulsars, Astronomy&Astrophysixcs, 254, 198 [212]

[2] Wijers, R.A.M.J., Rees, M.J., and M ́esza ́ros, P. 1997, Shocked by GRB 970228: the afterglow of a cosmological fireball, MNRAS Lett., 288, L51 [368]

[3] Galama, T.J., ...., Wijers, R.A.M.J., et al. 1998, An unusual supernova in the error box of the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998, Nature, 395, 670 [1394]

[4] Wijers, R.A.M.J., Bloom, J.S., Bagla, J.S., and Natarajan, P. 1998, Gamma-ray bursts from stellar remnants - Probing the universe at high redshift, MNRAS Lett., 294, L13 [250]

[5] Wijers, R.A.M.J. and Galama, T.J. 1999, Physical Parameters of GRB 970508 and GRB 971214 from Their Afterglow Synchrotron Emission, Astrophysical J, 523, 177 [343]

[6] Gehrels, N, ...., Wijers, R.A.M.J., et al. 2005, A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225, Nature, 437, 851 [445]

[7] Tanvir, N.R., ...., Wijers, R.A.M.J., et al. 2009, A gamma-ray burst at redshift z∼8.2, Nature, 461, 1254 [443]

[Papers [1] to [5] and [8] were key in establishing the international recognition of the candidate]

Important Review:

[8] Van Paradijs, J., Kouveliotou, C. and Wijers, R.A.M.J., "Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows", 2000, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 38: 379-425. [282]

Book:

[9] Kouveliotou, C., Wijers, R.A.M.J. and Woosley, S. (editors), 2012, "Gamma-ray Bursts", Cambridge University Press, 344 pp.

Numbers of publications and citations:

NASA-ADS lists:

• 424 scientific publications, of which 255 refereed.
  
• 18 800 citations; 45 papers with > 100 citations.
  
• h-index = 70
  

(Google-Scholar gives: 25 700 citations and h = 81).

Of the refereed publications, 12 appeared in Nature and one in Science.