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Researcher · Astronomical Observatory of Rome · Italy

A. Fontana

A. Fontana publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Immunology, on topics such as Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-3820-2823 OpenAlex
World rank
#17,584
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#309
of 242,206
Works
1,073
Citations
67k
Citations per work
62.7
h-index
131
i10-index 583Top 0.1% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
A. Fontana

What does A. Fontana research?

A. Fontana's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (48%), Immunology and Microbiology (6%), Materials Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 567 works · 52.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 516 works · 48.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 323 works · 30.1% of their workInstrumentation: 153 works · 14.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 40 works · 3.7% of their workMaterials Science: 50 works · 4.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 50 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 401 works · 37.4% of their workLife Sciences: 105 works · 9.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 59 works · 5.5% of their workImmunology: 59 works · 5.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 works · 4.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 46 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKA. Fontana1,073works
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences53%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy51648.1%
    2. Materials Science504.7%
  2. Everything else40137.4%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology595.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology464.3%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics30% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation14% of their works
  3. 3Immunology6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe A. Fontana's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Cosmology, Galaxies, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Astronomical Instrumentation4271 topic
  2. Spectrograph4271 topic
  3. Cosmology3951 topic
  4. Galaxies3951 topic
  5. Exoplanets1801 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics1801 topic
  7. Gamma-Ray Bursts1331 topic
  8. Supernovae1331 topic
  9. Glass Science961 topic
  10. Structural Analysis961 topic
  11. Adaptive Optics741 topic
  12. Wavefront Sensing741 topic
  13. Optical 3D Laser Measurement721 topic
  14. Position-Sensitive Detector721 topic
  15. Glass Transition701 topic
  16. Supercooled Liquids701 topic

Where does A. Fontana work?

A. Fontana's main affiliation in the publication record is Astronomical Observatory of Rome, Italy.

How many publications and citations does A. Fontana have?

OpenAlex counts 1,073 works and 67,278 citations for A. Fontana, an h-index of 131, ranking #17,584 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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