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Researcher · Scuola Normale Superiore · Italy

Andrea Ferrara

Andrea Ferrara publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-9400-7312 OpenAlex
World rank
#30,705
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#541
of 242,206
Works
718
Citations
28k
Citations per work
38.3
h-index
92
i10-index 357Top 0.9% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Andrea Ferrara

What does Andrea Ferrara research?

Andrea Ferrara's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (77%), Medicine (5%), Engineering (2%).

Physical Sciences: 566 works · 78.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 555 works · 77.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 434 works · 60.4% of their workInstrumentation: 72 works · 10.0% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 50 works · 6.9% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 1.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 11 works · 1.5% of their workEverything else: 116 works · 16.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 37 works · 5.1% of their workMedicine: 37 works · 5.1% of their workSurgery: 27 works · 3.7% of their workOncology: 10 works · 1.4% of their workTHEIR WORKAndrea Ferrara718works
Physical Sciences79%Health Sciences5%

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 Astronomy55577.3%
    2. Engineering111.5%
  2. Everything else11616.1%
    1. Medicine375.1%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics60% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation10% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Surgery4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Oncology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andrea Ferrara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds and Protoplanetary Disks.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation6282 topics
  2. Black Holes4832 topics
  3. Cosmology4021 topic
  4. Galaxies4021 topic
  5. Accretion Disks3072 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields3072 topics
  7. Molecular Clouds2261 topic
  8. Protoplanetary Disks2261 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation2061 topic
  10. Spectrograph2061 topic
  11. Supernovae1972 topics
  12. Exoplanets1801 topic
  13. Stellar Astrophysics1801 topic
  14. Gamma-Ray Bursts1071 topic
  15. Neutron Stars1071 topic
  16. High-Energy Astrophysics941 topic
  17. Particle Acceleration941 topic
  18. Cosmological Parameters901 topic
  19. Dark Energy901 topic
  20. Event Horizon Telescope811 topic
  21. X-Ray Astronomy811 topic

Where does Andrea Ferrara work?

Andrea Ferrara's main affiliation in the publication record is Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Andrea Ferrara have?

OpenAlex counts 718 works and 27,505 citations for Andrea Ferrara, an h-index of 92, ranking #30,705 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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