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A. Balestra

A. Balestra publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena.

World rank
#489,475
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#17,348
of 65,712
Works
46
Citations
131
Citations per work
2.8

What does A. Balestra research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 25.0%Instrumentation: 16.7%Aerospace Engineering: 11.7%Computational Mechanics: 10.0%other fields: 36.6%25%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics25.0%Instrumentation16.7%Aerospace Engineering11.7%Computational Mechanics10.0%other fields36.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics25% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation17% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe A. Balestra's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Optical 3D Laser Measurement, Position-Sensitive Detector, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Sensing.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation101 topic
  2. Spectrograph101 topic
  3. Cosmology61 topic
  4. Galaxies61 topic
  5. Optical 3D Laser Measurement61 topic
  6. Position-Sensitive Detector61 topic
  7. Adaptive Optics51 topic
  8. Wavefront Sensing51 topic
  9. Exoplanets31 topic
  10. On-Orbit Performance31 topic
  11. Radiometric Calibration31 topic
  12. Stellar Astrophysics31 topic
  13. CubeSat21 topic
  14. Distributed Systems21 topic
  15. Grid Computing21 topic
  16. small satellite21 topic

Where does A. Balestra work?

A. Balestra's main affiliation in the publication record is Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy.

How many publications and citations does A. Balestra have?

Science Explorer counts 46 works and 131 citations for A. Balestra, ranking #489,475 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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