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Researcher · University of Tartu · Estonia

Alar Gerst

Alar Gerst publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors, Semiconductor materials and devices and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,349,780
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Estonia
#3,492
of 4,874
Works
19
Citations
310
Citations per work
16.3
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 59% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Alar Gerst

What does Alar Gerst research?

Alar Gerst's work is mostly in Engineering (47%), Materials Science (22%), Chemical Engineering (7%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 83.8% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 47.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 works · 38.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 9.1% of their workMaterials Science: 4 works · 21.9% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 16.4% of their workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 works · 5.5% of their workChemical Engineering: 1 works · 7.3% of their workBioengineering: 1 works · 7.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 7.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 7.3% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 16.2% of their workTHEIR WORKAlar Gerst19works
Physical Sciences84%

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. Engineering947.3%
    2. Materials Science421.9%
    3. Chemical Engineering17.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy17.3%
  2. Everything else316.2%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering38% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry16% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  5. 5Bioengineering7% of their works
  6. 6Surfaces, Coatings and Films6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alar Gerst's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanostructures, Gas Sensors, Metal Oxide, Atomic Layer Deposition, High-k Dielectrics, Ion-Selective Electrodes, Optical Sensors and Antireflective Coatings.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanostructures112 topics
  2. Gas Sensors81 topic
  3. Metal Oxide81 topic
  4. Atomic Layer Deposition51 topic
  5. High-k Dielectrics51 topic
  6. Ion-Selective Electrodes41 topic
  7. Optical Sensors41 topic
  8. Antireflective Coatings31 topic
  9. Infrared Detectors31 topic
  10. Optical Interconnects31 topic
  11. Quantum Dots31 topic
  12. Semiconductor31 topic
  13. Semiconductor Lasers31 topic
  14. Semiconductor Materials31 topic
  15. Thin-Film Materials31 topic
  16. Breath Analysis21 topic
  17. Electronic Nose21 topic

Where does Alar Gerst work?

Alar Gerst's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Tartu, Estonia.

How many publications and citations does Alar Gerst have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 310 citations for Alar Gerst, an h-index of 9, ranking #5,349,780 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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